[Stoves] Bamboo as direct cooking fuel (Not as charcoal)

[Kevin McLean]

Sun24 is partnering with the Catholic Church in Africa to enable every
family to grow their own bamboo.  I think we can do this in many counties
in just a few years.  Bamboo is easily propagated.  Two clumps of bamboo
should provide a family enough cooking fuel year round.  Since women in
Sub-Saharan Africa spend an average of 2.1 hours per day collecting firewood
<http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/164241468178757464/pdf/98664-REVISED-WP-P146621-PUBLIC-Box393185B.pdf>,
I think they will welcome a shift from collecting firewood to growing and
using bamboo.

We've informally tested bamboo in three stone cookstoves with rock bed
grates and bamboo works about as well as wood.   It burns hotter and seems
to be less smokey than wood.  It produces more ash but this isn't a
big problem.

Are you aware of any testing of bamboo as direct cooking fuel or efforts to
shift cooking from wood to bamboo?  I can't find much.

Thanks,
Kevin McLean
Sun24
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