[Stoves] re Charcoal in Ganbia

[Alex English]

Crispin,
Thanks. I feel a little wiser now.
Regards
Alex in fuel commodity land
  (busy stockpiling 600 tonnes hogged wood "chips" at $38/tonne)

On 8/17/2011 4:00 AM, Crispin Pemberton-Pigott wrote:
> Dear Alex
>
> Rwanda has a commoditized fuels market where just about everyone pays for
> almost all fuel. There is an energy market, in other words. Charcoal is the
> strongly preferred fuel and people grow trees to convert to charcoal which
> they sell on a sustainable basis. There is nearly no forest left to cut down
> and that which remains is heavily protected (according to some reports). It
> is like Lesotho in that people are aware of the monetary value of each and
> every tree growing in their yards. They are cut and sold individually.
> Nearly all trees are 'owned by someone'.
>
> Rwanda also has a very large population in a short transporting distance.
> This allows for marketing and distribution efficiencies that imply do not
> exist elsewhere, the Sahel and Botswana being opposite examples.
>
> Because of donor concentration on Rwanda, there is a lot of money around in
> a small region making things like start-up funding easier to find. Getting
> assistance for carbon offset money is also easier given the large localized
> market.
>
> For these reasons, Rwanda is an unusual place.
>
> Regards
> Crispin enjoying summer
>
> ++++++
>
> Re: [Stoves] re Charcoal in Ganbia
>
> Hi Crispin,
> In the context of your statement below, what of "special" about Rwanda?
>
> Alex
>
>
>
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