[Stoves] Lets eat beans for every meal!

Cookswell Jikos cookswelljikos at gmail.com
Fri Dec 30 05:16:28 CST 2016


Perhaps a very interesting approach to reducing some of the negatives
associated with cooking in East Africa. Does anyone know more about this?
http://news.trust.org/item/20161216080433-4azer

*''George Oketch from Wiga village in Homa Bay County said his family of
nine now eats more beans thanks to the shorter cooking time.*
*"Initially, we cooked beans only twice a month, but now we eat beans three
times a week," he said.*

*The C$2.65 million ($1.99 million) project - whose first phase began in
October 2014 and ends next March - is being implemented by Uganda's
National Agricultural Research Organisation and Kenya's Agricultural and
Livestock Research Organization.*

*Ouma said a survey in Uganda showed an average family consumed about 12 kg
of beans per month, requiring around 288 kg of charcoal per year to cook
them.*
*The project, targeting a sample of 10,000 households in Kenya and 7,000 in
Uganda, should prevent some 400,000 kg of charcoal being burned per year,
he added. "This is a big impact on deforestation," he said.''*


*Teddy*
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