[Stoves] Bans on woodfuel in Africa

Fri Jun 19 23:25:50 CDT 2020

Dear Teddy

The expert on this topic is Robert van der Plas, ex-World Bank. He has demonstrated how to make charcoal sustainable at the national scale and level of control.

The major problem is the charcoal mafia(s) make a lot because it is illegal. When it is legalized they are kicked out of the chain so they agitate to keep it illegal.

Several countries have experienced this and Chad comes to mind. The big question is who owns and manages the raw material. The bun fights are over that.

Regards
Crispin
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Subject: [Stoves] Bans on woodfuel in Africa

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.

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Teddy Kinyanjui
Sustainability Director

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