The price of a kilogramme of charcoal has gone up by 59 percent in the past one year on the back of a sustained logging ban and an increased shift by lower income households to the fuel as a tough economy reduces the affordability of alternatives such as gas.
The Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) data shows charcoal prices rose to Sh57.19 per kilogramme in June from Sh36 in June 2019.
