[Stoves] News: Stoves and foods in Ghana

[Nikhil Desai]

A welcome call for local stove research and mainstreaming plans for rural
household cooking in local government structures.
Farther down two NYTimes stories on urban fast food in Ghana and a WSJ
piece on joloff - another example of how outsourcing the kitchen and
dietary patterns are influencing the household cooking market in urban
areas. Nikhil----
High cost of cookstoves said to be affecting rural communities
<https://www.ghanabusinessnews.com/2017/10/05/high-cost-of-cookstoves-said-to-be-affecting-rural-communities/>
 *Ghana Business News *  5 October 2017

He said supporting households to acquire clean cook stoves would enhance
acceptance and usability and address increasing environmental degradation.

Mr Awaregya made the call in an interview with the Ghana News Agency in
Paga in the Kassena Nankana West District where he noted that the drive
will reduce environmental degradation and promote healthy cooking and good
health in communities.

To this end, he urged Local government structures to mainstream in their
medium term plans for clean cooking to afford households in rural areas
to access affordable cooking systems for use in homes .

He said prices of available stoves ranged from GHC 60 and GHC 120, and
added that ORGIIS had started collaborations with the Navrongo  Research
Centre which led to  distribution of 500 cook stoves some communities.

He also called for more research to be conducted on available stove sizes
and stressed for such technologies to consider larger family sizes in rural
communities.




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Obesity Was Rising as Ghana Embraced Fast Food. Then Came KFC
<https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/02/health/ghana-kfc-obesity.html?_r=0>. By
DIONNE SEARCEY and MATT RICHTEL New York Times, OCT. 2, 2017, 2017

The Global Siren Call of Fast Food
<https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/02/insider/fast-food-kfc-ghana-africa.html>,
Dionne Searcey New York Times 2 October 2017
Africans Have Heated Views About Rice, Just Ask Mark Zuckerberg
<https://www.wsj.com/articles/africans-have-heated-views-about-rice-just-ask-mark-zuckerberg-1503252259>,
Joe Parkinson, WSJ 20 August 2017
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