{"id":6833,"date":"2019-11-27T08:51:39","date_gmt":"2019-11-27T05:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=6833"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:43","slug":"zimbabwe-turns-to-charcoal-for-cooking-as-power-outages-bite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/11\/27\/zimbabwe-turns-to-charcoal-for-cooking-as-power-outages-bite\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe Turns To Charcoal For Cooking As Power Outages Bite"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By The East Africa<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Miller Chizema walked\nthrough the forest near his home and came across a pile of freshly-cut logs &#8212;\na sight that spurred the 82-year-old villager to dismay and anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The logs were arranged\nin such a way that they were ready to be burnt into charcoal &#8212; a fuel that has\nbecome a substitute for Zimbabwe&#8217;s energy shortages, at a terrible cost to its\nforests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It hurts to see\nforests decimated like this,&#8221; said Chizema, who lives in Mhondoro Ngezi,\nin the centre of the country, 150 kilometres (90 miles) southwest of Harare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some loggers come from\nas far as Harare, &#8220;where we hear there is a big demand for charcoal,&#8221;\nhe said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We, as elders, try to discourage the practice, but it&#8217;s all about money and survival.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theeastafrican.co.ke\/news\/africa\/Zimbabwe-turns-to-charcoal-for-cooking-as-power-outages-bite\/4552902-5362822-8g520kz\/index.html\">Read more>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By The East Africa Miller Chizema walked through the forest near his home and came across a pile of freshly-cut logs &#8212; a sight that spurred the 82-year-old villager to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6834,"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-6833","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\/6833","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=6833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}