[Stoves] FWD: Wood fuels key to easing food insecurity situation in sub-Saharan Africa

[Cookswell Jikos]

Agreed it may not be necessary but some people insist -  for instance here
is a 25$ cookbook on cooking with fire that was just released
https://www.amazon.com/Finding-Fire-Cooking-Most-
Elemental/dp/1743793006?tag=foodrepu-20  funny to think that many urban
dwellers in developed countries not only like fire cooked foods enough to
pay top dollar for them, but for some, char grilled vegetables are some of
the few healthy things they may eat in any given week.

Crispin -  seems that when price is not an option, the fanciest cooks do
indeed prefer hardwoods...and the occasional spot of hay even! '' Though
not a wood, hay contains coumarine; a phytochemical with a vanilla like
flavour that naturally occurs in lavender, liquorice, strawberries,
apricots, cherries, cinnamon, and sweet clover. It combusts readily and is
great with mackerel, sweetbreads and snails ''
https://www.firedoor.com.au/wood/



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On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 1:06 PM, Anand Karve <adkarve at gmail.com> wrote:

> It is not necessary to use wood as cooking fuel.  Our organisation has
> shown how to make charcoal briquettes from light biomass like fallen leaves
> and agricultural residues. See www.samuchit.com. yours A.D.Karve
>
> On 01-Mar-2018 14:45, "Cookswell Jikos" <cookswelljikos at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> ''After poring over the literature, Mendum and Njenga reported that
>> little previous empirical research into wood burning in sub-Saharan Africa
>> has been conducted, so policy makers have scant data to guide them in
>> formulating best practices for sustainable biomass production and
>> consumption. In their study, published this month in Facets, they have some
>> recommendations.
>>
>> They suggest creating financial policy to support wood-burning systems
>> and developing agroforestry to ease the burden on wood gatherers. In rural
>> areas, encourage the planting of trees and then pruning them to use the
>> branches for firewood. As a result, more trees would be in place and people
>> could care for trees and collect firewood on their own properties instead
>> of carrying it long distances.
>>
>> "That means all the negative impacts of hauling wood on women's backs
>> would be eliminated," Mendum said.
>>
>> They also recommend conducting more research on the complex issues that
>> connect the use of women's time, environmental degradation and competition
>> for agricultural nutrients. There are a host of other factors surrounding
>> wood-fuel energy use in sub-Saharan Africa that remain poorly understood,
>> Mendum said.
>>
>> This research gap will not be filled as long as wood-fuel use remains
>> ignored because the assumption is being made that a 21st-century economy
>> must move up the energy ladder, the researchers concluded. Wood fuel is
>> widely used, it has a long history of use, and there are food cultural
>> barriers, widespread poverty and daunting geographic conditions that make
>> other forms of fuel unpopular or unavailable.
>>
>> "We shouldn't wait until we know the exact nutritional or agricultural
>> productivity impacts of wood-fuel use—that's information that we may never
>> have the capacity to fully collect," Mendum said. "It is important to
>> expand the work being done on improving wood-fuel
>> <https://phys.org/tags/fuel/> systems with clear attention paid to the
>> impacts of such improvements on food security and agricultural
>> productivity."
>> Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2018-02-wood-fuels-key-easing-food
>> .html#jCp
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>> Teddy Kinyanjui
>> Sustainability Director
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