[Stoves] FWD: Wood fuels key to easing food insecurity situation in sub-Saharan Africa

[Michael N Trevor]

Local growth of tree with pollarding and copicing can assure a convenient
handy an accessable supply of fuel
It seems to be passed up in many areas.

On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 9:09 PM, Cookswell Jikos <cookswelljikos at gmail.com>
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> ''After poring over the literature, Mendum and Njenga reported that little
> previous empirical research into wood burning in sub-Saharan Africa has
> been conducted, so policy makers have scant data to guide them in
> formulating best practices for sustainable biomass production and
> consumption. In their study, published this month in Facets, they have some
> recommendations.
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> They suggest creating financial policy to support wood-burning systems and
> developing agroforestry to ease the burden on wood gatherers. In rural
> areas, encourage the planting of trees and then pruning them to use the
> branches for firewood. As a result, more trees would be in place and people
> could care for trees and collect firewood on their own properties instead
> of carrying it long distances.
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> "That means all the negative impacts of hauling wood on women's backs
> would be eliminated," Mendum said.
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> They also recommend conducting more research on the complex issues that
> connect the use of women's time, environmental degradation and competition
> for agricultural nutrients. There are a host of other factors surrounding
> wood-fuel energy use in sub-Saharan Africa that remain poorly understood,
> Mendum said.
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> This research gap will not be filled as long as wood-fuel use remains
> ignored because the assumption is being made that a 21st-century economy
> must move up the energy ladder, the researchers concluded. Wood fuel is
> widely used, it has a long history of use, and there are food cultural
> barriers, widespread poverty and daunting geographic conditions that make
> other forms of fuel unpopular or unavailable.
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> "We shouldn't wait until we know the exact nutritional or agricultural
> productivity impacts of wood-fuel use—that's information that we may never
> have the capacity to fully collect," Mendum said. "It is important to
> expand the work being done on improving wood-fuel
> <https://phys.org/tags/fuel/> systems with clear attention paid to the
> impacts of such improvements on food security and agricultural
> productivity."
> Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2018-02-wood-fuels-key-easing-
> food.html#jCp
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