“Cheap, disposable, utilitarian appliances.” And, “not enough fuel savings to justify the expense of a clean cookstove.” These are just some of the findings in an new study out by Ideo.org on the cooking habits of Tanzanians.
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NEWS: Cooking with Garbage in Slums is not as bad as you think
As Uganda’s woodfuel crisis deepens, slum-dwellers in the capital come up with creative solutions.
Uganda: When good intentions go bad
Banning timber and charcoal production to protect the country’s remaining tree cover is well intentioned but completely impractical.
Ugandan entrepreneur uses briquettes to address gender and development issues
Betty Ikalany is eager to include women in her budding briquette-making enterprise. She believes the income-generating potential offered by briquette-making will empower women by making them more economically independent.
She specifically targets women living with HIV/AIDS and girls dropping out of school due to pregnancy because these two groups usually suffer greatly from stigma and discrimination in the community, which impedes their ability to provide a living for themselves.
NEWS: Nature Kenya said in a press release on March 14 that forests are rapidly disappearing as a result of charcoal and firewood for salt manufacturing factories at the Coast despite a ban on firewood collection by the National Environment Management Authority and Kenya Forest Service in January.