[Stoves] Bans on woodfuel in Africa

[Cookswell Jikos]

Has there ever been a ban on charcoal that has worked anywhere in Africa?


*“Imposing bans doesn’t disrupt the entire value chain and typically never
achieves its desired objective,” she said, adding that instead, soaring
demand causes a spike in wood fuel prices, making its production attractive
to outsiders and encouraging illegal and unregulated harvesters to join the
industry.  *





*Perceptions of charcoal and firewood use and production are bleak. “Quite
often people have a negative association with the concept of wood fuel,”
said Ruben Walker, chief executive and founder of African Clean Energy
 (ACE).As a result of this misconception, governments end up enacting
policies that ban or restrict wood fuel trade, hindering people from
practicing traditional livelihoods, he said.“Putting up a ban is an effort
to control the levels of production and trade of wood fuel, but not
necessarily its consumption,” said Phosiso Sola, a scientist working on
natural resources governance, bioenergy and development of sustainable
agroforestry value chains with World Agroforestry. *

https://forestsnews.cifor.org/65959/the-heat-is-on-managing-wood-fuel-sustainably-in-sub-saharan-africa?fnl=en


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDP-j5RdSUU



Teddy Kinyanjui
Sustainability Director



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