[Stoves] Forestry and fuel - charcoal crisis?

[Paul Anderson]

All,

Is there a more legible copy of the slide set about charcoal? Some of it 
would be useful information in other presentations. And other slides 
leave questions in mind about what is actually being shown.

Paul

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On 1/14/2014 12:02 AM, Cookswell Jikos wrote:
> 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!)
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> 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 
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>
> 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 <mailto: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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