Kamado on demand, Kamado at home!

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	Kamado on demand, Kamado at home!
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	2018-02-13
发布年	2018
语种	英语
国家	国际
领域	资源环境
正文(英文)	As soon as they were informed that a new family would like to have environmentally-friendly stoves, the women sprang into action to make and install a Kamado. They are members of one of eight associations of women in the villages around the mangroves of the Tsiribihina delta. A Kamado is a traditional Japanese stove which is designed to be green and efficient. It reduces the amount of wood used to a third of that used in a typical stove, according to surveys carried out by WWF and the NGO Saragna in 2015. It uses fuel wood, which requires many fewer trees than charcoal. These stoves come as a breath of fresh air for the mangroves of Tsiribihina, which face major pressures as the result of clearing for firewood and charcoal. Introduced in Madagascar by Japanese cooperation in 2013, the Kamado stoves are very easy to build, using simple materials easily found in the brush: clay, red soil, ash, straw, and water. Thanks to their simplicity and low cost of production, WWF has worked to popularize Kamado stoves in the villages along the mangroves of the Tsiribihina delta, on the west coast of Madagascar. And it was the eight associations of women of the riverside villages that became the leaders of their promotion in the field. The Tsiribihina mangroves are situated in wetlands which were certified as internationally important during the Ramsar convention in 2017. To date, these women have built 172 Kamado stoves since 2016, installing them in the kitchens of 135 households in the Tsiribihina Delta. These stoves allow for ecological cooking of meals, feeding more than 600 people each day. “These women really have realized the importance of the relationship between their environment and their daily life,” explains Joséphine Ravaoarisoa of the NGO Fanoitra, which supports the women in this initiative. Thus, these women have built not only a simple and economical solution for cooking for their families, but also a method to sustainably manage the mangroves on which their communities depend.
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来源平台	World Wide Fund for Nature
文献类型	新闻
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/125983
专题	资源环境科学
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	admin. Kamado on demand, Kamado at home!. 2018.