[Stoves] Charcoal price in Monrovia, Liberia

[Otto Formo]

Dear all,
the situation in Malawi is very much like the one in Zambia.
Licenses are reused year after year and I guess more than one million people are involved in the charcoal business..........from the forest to the most tiny market in small towns.
Export are not allowed by law for about 15 years.................. 

The challage are that these people has to be involved in the transaction towards other types of fuel to be introduced on the market and be part of the production line, transport and sales from day one.

Otto   

> From: Christa Roth [stoves at foodandfuel.info]
> Sent: 2010-10-17 16:56:05 MEST
> To: Discussion of biomass cooking stoves [stoves at lists.bioenergylists.org]
> Subject: Re: [Stoves] Charcoal price in Monrovia, Liberia
> 
> this piece of information came some weeks back from Mulanje, a small  
> district capital in southern Malawi:
> 
> Crista. Managed to use a scale. My small plastic bag of charcoal that  
> I bought for Kw20 (ca. 12,8 US cents) at the market weighs exactly  
> 0.319 KG.
> 
> In Mulanje people still use more firewood than charcoal. Firewood and  
> charcoal is normally sold in daily rations that people pick up after  
> work or just before cooking.
> 
> If my calculations are right this price of the small bag is equivalent  
> of 400 US$ per ton. In the real urban areas it might be more, as  
> Mulanje is close to the Mozambican border and the major part of  
> charcoal comes across  a river through the informal market and is  
> distributed further mostly by bicycle to the urban centers up to  
> Blantyre (65 km away). will try to find out retail prices in Blantyre  
> in November.
> By law, charcoal may be produced by licenced charcoal-makers, so as  
> such it is not illegal in Malawi. On the other hand as far as I know  
> there were't any licences issued in the last 25 years, which basically  
> makes the entire charcoal trade in Malawi with an estimated employment  
> above 50,000 people illegal. A lot of charcoal comes informally into  
> the country, I don't have indicative figures, I don't think anybody has.
> Christa
> 
> Am 17.10.2010 um 11:13 schrieb Otto Formo:
> 
> > Dear all,
> > the resale price in Lusaka, Zambia is close up to US$ 350 per ton  
> > and going upwards.
> > The price of electicity has raised close to 40% and made the demand  
> > for charcoal even higher, where people have access to electricity.
> > Zambia is a huge illegal exporter of charcoal to Tanzania and  
> > several other countries of southern Africa.
> > This cant go on for "ever"...............people has to be given an  
> > option to change fuel for cooking and heating.
> > Otto
> >
> >> From: rogerio carneiro de miranda [carneirodemiranda at gmail.com]
> >> Sent: 2010-10-16 00:35:15 MEST
> >> To: Discussion of biomass cooking stoves [stoves at lists.bioenergylists.org 
> >> ]
> >> Subject: Re: [Stoves] Charcoal prince in Monrovia, Liberia
> >>
> >> Crispin, is this resale price?
> >>
> >> Seems not bad. I just heard that in Dar es Salaam  is about US$ 400  
> >> to
> >> 500 per ton, and Dakar near US$ 400 per ton.
> >>
> >> I wonder how much is resale price in other  African capitals such as
> >> Maputo, Nairobi, Kampala, Lagos, Adis Ababa and Kigali.  Anyone from
> >> that region to report prices in US$/ton?
> >>
> >> Any other region?
> >>
> >> Rogerio
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> 2010/10/16 Crispin Pemberton-Pigott <crispinpigott at gmail.com>:
> >>> The price of charcoal in Monrovia is US $0.15 per kg.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Regards
> >>>
> >>> Crispin
> >>>
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