[Stoves] Forestry and fuel

[Richard Stanley]

Colince, 
Thats curous to me because what I have always read and observed is that taken in the long term, 70% of the wood is cut for fuelwood use for cooking in Africa and much of asia as well. It may be that the first tie aq land is cleared i is used as you say but these uses aside form biofuel feed cultivation are less frequent  uses of the wood, whereas fuelwood cooking is an ongoing depletion.  But what do you mean by biofuel feedstock cultivation via a vis deforestation? 

Kind regards,
 Richard Stanley
www.legacyfound.org

On Jan 14, 2014, at 4:20 AM, Nguelo C wrote:

Yeah you are right! Deforestation occurs here in central AFRICA especially for wood for construction, agriculture and biofuel feedstock cultivation. 

wood for cooking commes after all others activities!


Cheers,

Colince Nguelo
Cameroon


On Monday, January 13, 2014 7:31 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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