[Stoves] [biochar] Ghana: The potential of a dual purpose improved cookstove for low income earners in Ghana - Improved cooking methods and biochar production

Art Donnelly art.donnelly at seachar.org
Tue Oct 10 17:39:22 CDT 2017


Thank you Tom for posting this very heartening news!

On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 8:58 AM, tmiles at trmiles.com [biochar] <
biochar at yahoogroups.com> wrote:

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> Is anyone familiar with this study from Ghana?
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> “The potential of a dual purpose improved cookstove for low income earners
> in Ghana – Improved cooking methods and biochar production”
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> Gilbert  Ayine Akolgo, Eric Osei Essandoh, Samuel Gyamfi, Thomas
> Atta-Darkwa, Ebenezer Nyarko Kumia, Claudia Maria Branco de Freitas Maia
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> http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364032117313059#!
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> https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2017.09.044
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> Abstract
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> Many cookstove designs and biochar programs have been implemented in many
> countries around the world. These programs have had varied degrees of
> success which is generally low. Some were able to achieve all their target
> objectives, others achieved a fraction of their target objectives whiles
> others achieved different results from their initial targets. The low
> success rates have been attributed to disregard for various users’
> considerations by the past implementers of such designs and programs. This
> study seeks to determine the factors and features that Ghana cookstove
> users want to be incorporated in the designs of their cookstove and biochar
> programs. The study used a nationwide survey of household cooks. It was
> found that about 99% of the respondents will prefer a smokeless cook stove.
> The challenges that they will want eliminated from the conventional cooking
> systems are ranked from the highest to the lowest as: smoke and heat
> (35.80%), difficulty in use (21.8%), cost of cooking systems (6.8%), faulty
> parts (3.1%), and fuel availability (2.90%). About 83% of the respondents
> have no idea of the use of charcoal as a soil amendment tool (biochar),
> which presents an opportunity to educate the communities about the
> potential of biochar to improve soil fertility and quality. This paper
> therefore recommends that future cookstove designers, researchers and
> biochar programs implementers consider elimination of smoke and heat as
> well as fuel availability ahead of the other factors considered in the
> design of cookstoves.
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