Improved Cookstoves (ICS) reduce wood fuel used for cooking by up to 70%, which equals up to 6 tonnes of CO2 emissions reductions per stove per year. ICS also burn wood fuel at a much higher temperature than traditional stoves; this dramatically reduces smoke and consequent incidents of respiratory illness in women and children.

Safe Water Systems (SWS), such as ceramic water filters, eliminate the need to burn wood fuel to boil water, which is the only option for millions of rural households if they want to prevent incidents of fatal water-borne illnesses like diarrhoea and schistosomiasis. Replacing water boiling can reduce up to 3 tonnes of CO2 emissions per water filter per year.

Regenerative grazing is a management technique to restore grassland ecosystems and sequester carbon in the soil at a rate of between 1.5 and 3 tonnes per hectare per year. Regenerative grazing projects also provide social and economic benefits to the often-marginalized communities that rely on livestock farming for their livelihoods by providing education, support services and financial incentives for participating in a coordinated management plan.

We operate in 6 countries and have created over 600 local jobs through our projects.

Our impact

Our projects fulfil the following United Nations Social Development Goals:

Good health

Good Health and Well-being

Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages

Quality education

Quality Education

Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all

Gender equality

Gender Equality

Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls

Clean water

Clean Water and Sanitation

Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
Affordable energy

Affordable and Clean Energy

Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all

Reduced inequalities

Reduced Inequalities

Reduce inequality within and among countries
Climate action

Climate Action

Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts

Life on Land

Life on Land

Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss

Our story

Established in 2019, The African Stove Company Ltd. (TASC) is one of the world’s leading carbon project developers specialising in identifying, financing, and developing commercially viable carbon projects that meet the global demand for carbon credits and deliver meaningful, positive impact for the communities where we work. We are a highly skilled team of academics and carbon market professionals, with decades of experience in the carbon market, who are backed by a network of willing funders which enables us to implement projects at scale that adhere to the highest standards of quality, transparency and integrity.

TASC was initially established to address the problem of open fire cooking, one of the most persistent inequalities affecting over a billion people in Africa. As the main source of household air pollution, it causes over 4 million premature deaths from respiratory diseases each year. But it’s a problem which shouldn’t exist. Through improved cookstoves, we already have the technology to solve it. Through carbon finance, we also have the mechanism to distribute this technology, at scale, to the communities most in need.

Today, TASC operates worldwide with projects currently being implemented in five countries including South Africa (where we are the country’s largest carbon project developer), Zambia, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Australia and a substantial pipeline of projects under development in the Philippines and elsewhere.

Our expertise now extends far beyond efficient cookstoves. An intimate knowledge of the carbon market means that we can act quickly to develop projects at scale that meet the demand for high-volume, high-quality carbon credits using approved methodologies best suited to the environment and its communities. In South Africa, for example, we are developing a grassland restoration project with local herding communities, the first of its kind to be registered using Verra’s new VM0042 methodology, covering 262,000 ha of communal land under management, with commercial farms now being included. In Uganda we have implemented a project to improve safe water systems through the distribution of 30,000 ceramic water filters. In Australia, we are delivering landscape restoration and regeneration projects under the Emissions Reduction Fund and building a pipeline of agricultural soil carbon projects.

To date, we have distributed over 1.1 million devices (cookstoves and water filters) to local communities and issued over 6 million carbon credits, each equivalent to a tonne of CO2 mitigated. Our pipeline is forecast to issue over 20 million credits by 2030.

With an unwavering commitment to innovation, sustainability, and human empowerment, TASC is committed to driving forward the carbon market, catalysing a future where clean energy, environmental stewardship, and equitable development converge to create a better world for all.

Our partners

TASC endeavours to provide its customers with durable, best-in-class products that have been developed using systems of continuous research, refinement and, quality control. We choose suppliers based on their outstanding performance and ability to deliver, as well as their commitment to providing exceptional customer service and aftercare.

 We work with implementation partners who have strong relationships with the communities they serve, and who deeply understand and respect the traditional customs and structures of those communities. TASC carefully selects partners with a robust local infrastructure who are dedicated to improving the lives and livelihoods of local communities, prioritize transparency and operate with integrity.

Burn Manufacturing Logo

BURN Manufacturing (Kenya) designs, manufactures, and distributes fuel efficient cooking appliances that deliver transformative social, financial and environmental impacts.

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ROCKETWORKS (South Africa): Since 2013, Rocketworks has been producing efficient, high grade stainless steel cookstoves that improve the lives of rural people and the environment whilst reducing smoke related illness and death.

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KRUGER TO CANYONS BIOSPHERE: K2C is a non-profit company which implements a range of conservation and sustainable development projects in the Kruger to Canyons Biosphere region of South Africa.

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SPOUTS of Water LTD has been producing the Purifaaya ceramic water filter as an effective, sustainable and easy to use solution for providing safe water to East Africa since 2012.

Powersolve Carbon Project Tracking Logo

PowerSolve is a SAAS solution that helps automate the distribution and management of carbon reduction devices across projects and locations with and without internet access. The software is designed to simplify carbon reduction data collection and get carbon projects verification-ready.

Mogalakwena Training Logo

MOGOLAKWENA TRAINING CENTRE: was established to develop sustainable solutions to the land reform and community agriculture challenges facing rural communities, in collaboration with government and industry.

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Meat Naturally NPC (South Africa): partners with NGOs to offer rural farmers formal training on regenerative grazing techniques, rangeland restoration practices and cattle management.

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Cicada Carbon is a team of cross-sector specialists building sustainable businesses which grow Zimbabwe’s natural, social and financial capital.

Healing Hooves

Healing Hooves offers training workshops on regenerative grazing planning and land management as well as Eco-literacy and Drought Management. It also provides continued mentorship to assist with the implementation of regenerative land management principles.