Introduction Cooking oil is not a luxury, it is a daily necessity. Yet across Southern and Eastern Africa, millions of households are being priced out of basic nutrition due to rising food costs. In countries like Malawi and Kenya, cooking oil prices have increased by 40–80% between 2020 and 2024, driven by import dependency and global supply shocks. Kasupe Cooking Oil (KCO) was born out of this reality, not from theory, but from lived experience. This is the story of how one moment at a loca...

The Origin of Kasupe Cooking Oil (KCO): Turning Shock Into Opportunity