Africa’s Cold Rush and the Promise of Refrigeration

The section about the Ox truck was interesting. I found this Ars Technica article about it from 2016 [1]. There's a lot of skepticism in the comments, so I'm glad it seems to be working out.

A recurring problem with charity toward developing countries is, in my view, a limited imagination. Many first-worlders can only imagine "development" to mean "making a place more like my home country". Impoverished Rwandan farmers can't afford a truck no matter how cheap you sell it, which would convince many a would-be entrepreneur give up right there. Instead using cheap trucks to offer a "cargo bus" service is canny.

> "What will happen if, as currently planned, slaughterhouses are built in rural areas, so that the live chickens I saw, transported on bicycles and slaughtered at home, are replaced by carcasses that need to be moved, stored, and sold under refrigeration?"

That's another example. There's a good argument to be made here that the developed world's solution isn't the best one for this situation, even if it is viable.

[1] "Ox: The flat-pack off-road truck which could revolutionize African transport." Ars Technica, 2016 https://arstechnica.com/cars/2016/09/ox-flat-pack-truck/