[Stoves] Food Crisis and Improved Cook Stoves - eggs on top

[George Riegg Gambia]

a romour from the field - the gambia, west africa.
our project is not advanced enough to be at the promotional stage so i can't
comment on that, tom.
but with only sketchy "world" news reaching the community people are getting
quite apprehensive.
just to put things into a perspective:
the gambia i think # 154 on the UN poverty scale - out of 175 or
thereabouts.
official average income per capita per day ~ us$1
forex 1 us$ = 21 dalasi ( 37 exactly 1 year ago )

rice 1 sack 50 kg - 650 - 700 dalasi
petrol 1 gallon - dalasi 135
1 imported chicken, ca 1.2 kg - 90 dalasi
1 kg fire wood in urban areas - 2.5 dalasi (average family need 6 kg/day )
1 egg - 6 dalasi ( imported from the eu and produced with heavy subsidies,
thus being cheaper than local eggs - but often out of date after 1 month in
a container ).

one thing is for sure, it's not gonna be easy for any of us.

cheers
george

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Miles" <tmiles at trmiles.com>
To: "'Discussion of biomass cooking stoves'" <stoves at listserv.repp.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2008 4:20 AM
Subject: [Stoves] Food Crisis and Improved Cook Stoves


> Those of you who are working in the field must be seeing the impact of
> increased food prices on the urban and rural poor. As they adjust to
higher
> food prices, or scarce supplies, has it become easier or more difficult to
> promote improved stoves? How are you adjusting your promotions to the
> crisis?
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> Tom
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