A study on learning to cook: Rwanda

Report presents the findings from a study conducted to explore how people living in urban and peri urban areas of Kigali, Rwanda learn to cook.

• From: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
• Published: 9 May 2025

• Country: Rwanda
• Document Type: Research Paper
• Theme: Food and Nutrition
• First published: 24 March 2023
• Authors: DR Mukeshimana,M., Dr Bisaga,I. and Cyusa,D.

Abstract

Through a mix of one-to-one interviews and focus group discussions, this study aimed to examine how and where people learn their cooking skills, what cooking practices they rely on, the differences in cooking between generations, their perceptions of the future of cooking, and what fuels and technologies they adopt during cooking and why.

This is an output of the Modern Energy Cooking Services (MECS) programme.

Citation

Mukeshimana MC. ‘A study on learning to cook: Rwanda’ MECS Report 2023

Link

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Published 9 May 2025