[Stoves] Charcoal producers protest ban

[lh cheng]

A couple of days ago I was thinking if the biomass become too valuable or
the charcoal-making is too valuable, there might be some disaster happening
afterward, public trees/plants need protection then.

human factor is always the most complicate thing. people are not always
trustworthy, which can easily devoid the good side of technology.

2018-01-20 6:15 GMT+08:00 Cookswell Jikos <cookswelljikos at gmail.com>:

> 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
>
>
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> 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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