This Healthy African Cooking Solution Has Impacts Beyond Food Security

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This Healthy African Cooking Solution Has Impacts Beyond Food Security
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Daniela De Lorenzo is a reporter who covers breaking news, features and analysis focusing on sustainable food system policy, agritech and foodtech. She’s covered new policy development in the field of cultivated meat. Previously, she covered agrifood policies as a staff reporter at Politico Europe from 2022 to 2023.

over open fires or traditional stoves, utilizing wood, charcoal and other polluting fuels, but moving towards clean cooking is hard when cooking in this specific way is part of your heritage and culture.

This method drastically reduces the amount of fuel or firewood needed for cooking, approximately 80, as the Wonderbag completes the process using only retained heat, whereas cooking with biomass fuelsCollins which made Wonderbag a company and a foundation has been able to train and employ over 5000 women to sew the Wonderbags from recycled and local materials.

In South Sudan and Uganda, where refugee camps are often overcrowded and firewood resources are limited, Wonderbags have eased tensions between communities. Furthermore, it decreased smoke from cooking fires improving indoor air quality, and reducing respiratory illnesses that disproportionately affect women and children who spend more time near cooking fires: “By reducing the need for firewood, the Wonderbag can literally save lives.”In some communities in Burkina Faso, Collins noted that the Wonderbag enabled locals to resume cooking their traditional staples.

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