{"id":136284,"date":"2022-03-09T11:52:22","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T11:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maravipost.com\/?p=136284"},"modified":"2022-03-09T11:53:01","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T11:53:01","slug":"modern-cooking-project-to-curb-illegal-charcoal-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maravipost.com\/modern-cooking-project-to-curb-illegal-charcoal-production\/","title":{"rendered":"Modern Cooking project to curb illegal charcoal production"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Dorica Mtenje<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>LILONGWE-(MaraviPost)-<\/strong>As one way of assisting government in addressing the leading driver of deforestation and forest degradation in the country, Ministry of Energy, Natural Resources in conjunction with Modern Cooking for Healthy Forests (MCHF) has launched modern cooking healthy forest project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The US$ 1.1 million performance based grant (PBG) project funded by USAID and UK aid is aiming at promoting cooking energies and technologies and sustainable bios fuel supply and it will help the supply of cleaner cooking energies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"702\" src=\"https:\/\/e4zhct5oend.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Modern-cooking-project-1024x702.jpg?strip=all&avif=70&sharp=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-136288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/e4zhct5oend.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Modern-cooking-project-1024x702.jpg?strip=all&amp;avif=70&amp;sharp=1 1024w, https:\/\/e4zhct5oend.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Modern-cooking-project-300x206.jpg?strip=all&amp;avif=70&amp;sharp=1 300w, https:\/\/e4zhct5oend.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Modern-cooking-project-768x526.jpg?strip=all&amp;avif=70&amp;sharp=1 768w, 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