[Stoves] Beans, carbon credits and aDALYs (Re: Teddy)

[Traveller]

Teddy:

Wonderful - getting an estimate of 2 kg charcoal per kg of raw beans (288
kg/y charcoal for 12 kg/m of beans).

A family of nine uses 1 kg of beans thrice a week. I would like to know
their animal protein intake.

Perhaps one could do some calculation for cooking energy requirement
(useful GJ/day/capita) for "recommended diet" for different "cuisine
zones".

*******

But I see another million dollar opportunity here.

Shorter cooking time but more frequent cooking means more biomass use and
CO2 emissions, so carbon credit would be reduced.

As you mentioned, eating beans may cause more methane emissions, so another
hit on carbon credits. (There may be some offset from what they eat less
of.)

However, beans may improve health , so aDALYs are gained (except that they
come from improved nutrition, which BAMG ignores).

These GACC/BAMG folks can do an "evidence base" project and give a net
(aDALY minus carbon) credit of $1/meal, say.

Now, that would create an "income effect" on meal composition and quantity.

So the next round of carbon and aDALY calculation.

Nice way to perpetuate silliness, isn't it? :-)

Nikhil


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> From: Cookswell Jikos <cookswelljikos at gmail.com>
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> Subject: [Stoves] Lets eat beans for every meal!
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> 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
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> *''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.*
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> *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.*
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> *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.*
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> *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.''*
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> *Teddy*
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