I know I have often threatened to focus somewhat more on the global warming and renewable energy issues but haven’t seemed to get there yet. Maybe because there seems to be so much good inform already available online. If you are interested in getting into this information from an African point of view you could [...]
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 For some time I have been slowly promoting the sun drying process because of its low capital cost and zero energy consumption. So the Drying Process has a very low carbon footprint! But here is someone who’s taking it even further! from: California Sun-Dry (click image for full story online) They claim a 7 [...] click image to visit site The use of dried and smoked fish is an important part of the diet of many poorer communities with access to fish either marine of fresh water. Emeka Okafor of Timbuktu Chronicles, a really good blog with a focus on business successes in Africa, presents some technical information on fish smoking and drying. [...] This 28 page document is the Food Vision of the British Frozen Food Industry. from: British Frozen Food Industry (click image for full story online) Although the document considers the British industry it is packed with information that would be of value to anyone, anywhere considering entering the frozen food market. There are detailed [...] Here is the design specification for short term food preservation for Pabal farmers as drawn up by an investigation team that included the University of Cambridge and Engineers Without Borders. Interestingly the need was very similar to what many before them had identified. from: Eng India (click image for full story online) They have [...] Yes its apparently true Fritos Lay introduced a compostable crisp bag – environmentally great! from: Sparkblog (click image for full story online) However, Fritos Lay has changed the bulk of their Sun Chips back to conventional packaging. This because sales were decreasing and they attributed this to consumer resistance to the noise the [...] This diagram presents the data that has been collected in a lot of work in the United Kingdom. It breaks down the CO2 production for the complete food chain. from: Teeside University (click image for full story online) The author, John Stanford, highlighted the following points from this diagram that put emmissions in context. [...] Its my feeling that you need to be! both from a point of view of “saving the world” and from the point of view of satisfying your customers moral desires. The introduction of the lifecycle concept in this argument is very important because a partial analysis can miss larger hidden differences if all impacts are [...] Over the years I have seen many attempts, and been involved in some myself, where there has been an attempt to introduce vegetable production in resource poor communities. This one – The African Market Garden (AMG) seems to address a number of the problems I saw and refreshingly provides some hard information on costs and [...] |
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