{"id":5039,"date":"2019-09-02T11:07:23","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T08:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=5039"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:31","slug":"africans-baulk-at-poo-based-cooking-gas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/09\/02\/africans-baulk-at-poo-based-cooking-gas\/","title":{"rendered":"Africans Baulk At Poo-Based Cooking Gas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scidev.net\/sub-saharan-africa\/author.verenardo-meeme.html\">Verenardo Meeme<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An aversion to cooking with gas\nbased on human and animal excreta and other organic waste means many\nSub-Saharan Africans are unnecessarily exposed to pollution from wood-based\nstoves, according to a report.<br>\n<br>\nHeralded as a solution to the problem of wood-based pollution, naturally\noccurring microbes can break down organic material to produce so-called&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scidev.net\/sub-saharan-africa\/environment\/biofuels\/\">biogas<\/a>&nbsp;which\ncan be used for cooking and producing energy.<br>\n<br>\nThrough the Africa Biogas Partnership Programme that was founded in 2009, about\n60,000 small-scale structures called biodigesters for converting waste from\nplants and animals into biogas have been constructed in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia,\nKenya, Tanzania and Uganda, says a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S2452223618301317\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">review<\/a>&nbsp;published in the August issue of&nbsp;<em>Current\nOpinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scidev.net\/sub-saharan-africa\/biofuels\/news\/africans-baulk-at-poo-based-cooking-gas.html\">Read\nMore\u2026<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By:\u00a0Verenardo Meeme An aversion to cooking with gas based on human and animal excreta and other organic waste means many Sub-Saharan Africans are unnecessarily exposed to pollution from wood-based stoves,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}