[Stoves] Forestry and fuel

[Cookswell Jikos]

Dear Samer,

Thanks for sharing, but if indeed this is fully the case, I wonder why the
reduction of deforestation features so heavily on most cookstove marketing
pitches. (even mine sometimes!)

Further interesting reading that somewhat supports this is a very good
presentation done by ICRAF recently, that is aptly titled, "What Happened
to the Charcoal Crisis"
http://www.slideshare.net/agroforestry/miyuki-iiyamaicrafcharcoal-review2013


It is a very good systematic review of many other woodfuel papers in East
Africa. It seems to be that on farm woodfuel is becoming more and more of
income generating wood energy source.

All the best,

Teddy



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On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 9:31 PM, Samer Abdelnour
<samer.abdelnour at gmail.com>wrote:

> Dear all,
> Just to contribute on the deforestation discussion. A dated (1997) by
> excellent resource by the FAO, which concluded that deforestation
> occurs mainly as a result of pressures for agricultural land, logging,
> and national infrastructure projects, not for cooking.
>
> http://www.fao.org/docrep/w7744e/w7744e06.htm
>
> Of course, I applaud efforts to source cleaner, more sustainable fuel.
> Perhaps these should be grounded in location specific challenges (i.e.
> community nurseries), not distorted by general mythologies associated
> with global problems and magic bullets.
>
> Best,
> Samer
>
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