Togo is a low-income, food-deficit West African country where 69 percent of households live below the poverty line and this ratio is even higher in rural areas. Rural households are rain-fed small farmers. The main reasons for this are deforestation and climate change. Firewood harvesting has passed 2.3 times the capacity that the wood resources have to regenerate, and the average annual temperature has increased by 1.1°C since 1960.  Most families cook with firewood, but the use of firewood produces toxic fumes and greenhouse gases (GHG) that impact human health and the environment. It is estimated that 4% of the disease burden in the developing world is caused by the use of traditional cookstoves.  Women and children are disproportionally affected by the health impacts because of women cooking with their children present. Improved cooking stoves (ICSs) have been introduced to rural communities to reduce pressure on forests, but the adoption rate is still too low4 because ICSs lack human-centered design plan and have not integrated income generation.