Liquid fuel stoves, and pressurized gas stoves are neat, convenient, and generally easier to live with, as long as the fuel hold out. But for an extended timespan, or on a trek without a motor vehicle, a top-lit updraft stove (TLUD) is fairly lightweight and allows the economic use of natural fuel (wood, twigs, pine cones, dried animal dung, even dried leaves or grass) saving the necessity to carry fuel cans. Usable stoves of the type can be hand made from empty tin cans, and will serve fairly well in the short term (online search will provide many forms of instruction) but tin can stoves tend to burn/rust out fairly soon. A more durable alternative for those able to purchase, would be the Solo Stove (solostove.com) or one of its foreign-made copies on eBay, Amazon or other online markets/merchants.
For some camping OPSEC (and efficiency) they can also be used with a folding windscreen, and also used with alcohol stoves. Obviously, it wouldn’t suit for all situations, but ….