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Introduction
Solar cooking and violence
Solar cooking has an unexpected relationship - good and bad - with violence.
- Anecdotes exist that solar cookers are not promoted by some NGOs in Africa due to domestic violence. When the weather has not been suitable for cooking, and the husband returns home to find no meal ready, he may become violent towards his wife. (This raises other issues, but one immediate issue is not to aggravate the victim's situation by having an unreliable cooker.)
- In Darfur, solar cooking has meant women have not had to leave safe areas searching for firewood - thus these cookers have
Note that in the case of domestic violence and the failure of the meal to cook, there is a technological solution: integrated cooking (see Wikia:Solarcooking:Integrated cooking method).
The points above come from email conversations. I hope to find get people with experience in these things to contribute to Appropedia. --Chriswaterguy · talk 00:20, 31 October 2007 (PDT)