[Stoves] Charcoal producers protest ban
Cookswell Jikos
cookswelljikos at gmail.com
Fri Jan 19 16:15:41 CST 2018
Hi Tom -
Thanks for sharing! It's a good one to add to the list -
Seems the annual charcoal bans are making headlines again (if you google
charcoal bans Kenya/East Africa there has been about one or two+ a year,
every year for many years
<https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/1144004092/foresters-launch-crackdown-against-loggers>
since
the 1980s. again seen here
<https://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2017/12/15/charcoal-burning-use-of-powersaws-banned-in-kerio-valley_c1685488>
and
here in Uganda
<http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/West-Nile-charcoal-ban-prices-rise-Nebbi-Town/688334-4225984-nh7jjtz/index.html>
etc.
etc.) But then, yet another Kitui charcoal ban ended in 2012 even
<https://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2012/09/13/kitui-charcoal-ban-ends-this-month_c677846>,
and then in 2014 the newly devolved Kitui County Govt. released this Charcoal
Act
<http://devolutionhub.or.ke/resource/the-kitui-county-charcoal-management-act-2014>
.
Interestingly enough with this recent Kitui case - I wonder what went wrong
with the twelve Charcoal Producer Associations (CPAs)
<https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308120448_IMPACT_AND_ASSESSMENT_OF_CHARCOAL_MARKETING_SYSTEM_THROUGH_COMMUNITY_ASSOCIATIONS_IN_KITUI_COUNTY_KENYA>
studied
in 2016. Although they still do have a pretty current facebook page
<https://www.facebook.com/Kitui-County-Charcoal-Producers-Network-544526155702501/>
.
I hope this current ban is a temporary measure that they are doing to
restore some order in their house and it will hopefully be the start of a
county wide massive reafforestation program at least.
To answer your other questions anecdotally, I was in Kitui the other day on
buisness and I stopped in for lunch at the Lakeside Butchery and happened
to take these photos - as shown below the co-proprietor of this well named
joint had a few 3 stone fires in a somewhat well ventilated outdoor kitchen
- she also had a KCJ jiko that she only used for only chapatis and
sometimes tea - they cook better on charcoal she said and a kerosene stove
inside for morning tea. She was boiling a goats head and some tripes and
various medicinal bark/twigs in the pot in the foreground for some ok
tasting soup, I think it had cooked too long though, but then again her 14
year oldish daughter was manning that pot to be fair. She said she gets the
wood from her and her families farm, the charcoal she buys for 0.50c a kilo
or tin every other day- this particular area was not much of a commercial
charcoal making place it seemed, most of the land was privately owned,
demarcated and farmed.
And for your question as to *''**What is likely to be the outcome of this
ban?'' *It's hard to say, there are so many variables in play but I know
for sure that this goat below hopes the ban stays in place, if even for
just one more day :P
Although of course that goat will most likely still end up in the pot as
there is still more then enough charcoal in Kenya roast it and many more!
(please see various graphs below)
Also if you are interested anyone, check out our woodfuel news portal here
> https://www.facebook.com/EastAfricanBiomassEnergyPortal for many more
news links on the biomass front in East Africa.
best regards,
Teddy
Teddy Kinyanjui
Sustainability Director
<https://www.facebook.com/CookswellJikos>
<https://www.instagram.com/cookswelljikos>
<https://twitter.com/cookswelljikos?lang=en>
On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 7:45 PM, <tmiles at trmiles.com> wrote:
> In the last month we've seen charcoal bans in Kenya and Tanzania. In this
> case Kitui appears to be an area that feeds Nairobi. Do the villagers use
> charcoal as a primary cooking fuel? Or, do they use wood to cook and sell
> the charcoal?
>
> What is likely to be the outcome of this ban?
>
> http://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2018/01/19/charcoal-
> producers-protest-ban_c16
> 99931
>
> Tom
>
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