[Stoves] Beans in Uganda - pre-cooked

[Traveller]

Teddy:

You didn't tell us that they warmed pre-cooked beans!!

Pre-cooked beans could turn down heat on Africa's dwindling forests
<http://www.newvision.co.ug/new_vision/news/1442316/pre-cooked-beans-heat-africas-dwindling-forests#sthash.sfxpXbPA.dpuf>
New
Vision (Kampala) 18 December 2016

<http://www.cp-africa.com/2016/12/25/uganda-canned-pre-cooked-beans-will-reduce-deforestation/>
Uganda: Canned pre-cooked beans will reduce deforestation
<http://www.cp-africa.com/2016/12/25/uganda-canned-pre-cooked-beans-will-reduce-deforestation/>,
CP Africa 25 December 2016.

It is not clear whether the beans are cooked in the factories with gas or
electricity or wood or charcoal. Del Monte Kenya is involved, so you could
perhaps find out.

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This is THE BEST external donor initiative I have seen in terms of what I
call "outsourcing the kitchen". Of course people would want to cook at
home, but as Anil Rajvanshi asserted about five years ago, "Working poor do
not have the luxury of cooking three meals a day." He advocated subsidized
meals for the working poor and I immediately endorsed (naming it "Sodexho
for the Poor!")

I wagered two years ago that worldwide, the total amount of useful energy
spent for household cooking is about the same as that in non-household
cooking (the entire "farm to market" or "farm to restaurant" supply chain).

The "biomass cookstoves for poor households" and "clean air" folks have
been obsessed with just the former, progressively declining market, and
ignoring the latter. (If I wasn't correct two years ago, I am now or will
be in two years. Heck, nobody has yet challenged me with data that show
otherwise!)

Time to get out of the box. Smell the flavors. See The Queen of Katwe, and
market for roasted cornstalks.

It is easier to design large-scale cookstoves for cafeterias, restaurants
and food processing industries (which can be run many times longer than
household cookstove, justifying the capital investments in newer cooking
appliances).

And if, as Frank suggests, fuel of uniform physical and chemical properties
were to be prepared so as to improve stove performance in terms of
reliability and controllability (as I suspect), a lot more can be achieved
in aggregate fuel efficiency and emissions, even exposures (it is easier to
control a factory of 500 compared to every household).

Not all food preparation and cooking can be oursourced unless one were to
eat in restaurants (or a mistress' home). But beans are a start.

NEXT - exporting Canadian charcoal to Africa. Along with Canadian cooked
foods. (Lots of credits in GHG emissions - depending on where the factory
is located in Canada - and of course in aDALYs.)

Nikhil






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> I could not find out any more information about this unfortunately but on
> a lighter note, the joke at the office is that perhaps this will exchange
> one form of indoor air pollution for another more fragrant one? ;)
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