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Sustainable Solutions for Cooking in Tanzania: Improving Health and Environment

Explore the traditional cooking methods in Tanzania and the existing problems such as health risks, deforestation, and time wastage. Discover recent developments like solar cookers and reforestation efforts. Consider questions related to constructing affordable and efficient cooking solutions.

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Sustainable Solutions for Cooking in Tanzania: Improving Health and Environment

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  1. Cooking in Tanzania By: Ben, Noel, Sara, Lindsey

  2. Traditional Ways of Cooking • Roll the chapati dough and then flatten it out. Cook over open fire until done. • Outside over an open fire. • Fire inside of huts, usually with poor ventilation.

  3. Existing Problems • Potential health risks • Indoor smoke inhalation • * Responsible for 1.5 million deaths per year globally, among women and small young children. • Deforestation • * Up to 500,000 acres are deforested in Tanzania each year. • Consumption of wood for fuel may contribute. • Waste of time • Much time is wasted traveling to collect the wood. • Waiting for wood to dry so it can be used in everyday cooking.

  4. Recent Developments • Solar Cooker -The Global Resource Alliance has offered solar cooking workshops and over 1000 subsidized solar Cookits this past January • Landscape -WeForest is helping to restore the deforested area over the next 2 years by planting 130,000 trees • A study was done that found solar cooking viable for the needs of a rural family even during the lowest average solar radiation levels.

  5. Questions to Consider • Can we build it cheap and fast? • Can we store heat from it? • Things to consider: • Complexity of construction, sun inclination, and longevity • Limited availability of funds or materials for construction, durability, ease of use • Viable daylight hours • Reproducibility of the project

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