<div dir="ltr"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:15px 0px 20px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"PT Serif",serif;font-size:18px;outline:0px">''Despite its importance, wood fuel is largely overlooked in the continent’s energy agenda. While alternative energy forms, including other biomass energy sources, hydro-power and solar are currently being developed, there are no significant investments to improve wood fuel supply chains.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:15px 0px 20px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"PT Serif",serif;font-size:18px;outline:0px">Wood fuel derives from a variety of tree sources and represents over half of all wood exploitation in African countries. Although most countries have legislative and permit systems to regulate commercial wood fuel exploitation under forest laws, they are often not implemented. This means that wood fuel production and trade remain informal activities prone to illegality, bribery and unsustainable practices.'' </p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:15px 0px 20px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"PT Serif",serif;font-size:18px;outline:0px"><a href="https://forestsnews.cifor.org/62759/realizing-the-potential-of-sustainable-wood-fuel-value-chains?fnl=en">https://forestsnews.cifor.org/62759/realizing-the-potential-of-sustainable-wood-fuel-value-chains?fnl=en</a>  <br></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:15px 0px 20px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"PT Serif",serif;font-size:18px;outline:0px"><br></p><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif">Teddy Kinyanjui</font></div><div><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif">Sustainability Director</font></div><div><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-3YUMG1TTODQ/Wh6o8gWfRmI/AAAAAAAAAyw/1bp5qqpvmwQwg5JXqL7hz-OLGSx5nSEXgCK8BGAs/s512/TK%2BEmail%2BLogo.jpg" width="200" height="100"><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif"><br></font><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif">            <a href="https://www.facebook.com/CookswellJikos" target="_blank"><img src="https://images2.imgbox.com/97/28/BgG0H6ZN_o.png"></a>  <a href="https://www.instagram.com/cookswelljikos" target="_blank"><img src="https://images2.imgbox.com/54/7e/owicmXIG_o.png"></a>  <a href="https://twitter.com/cookswelljikos?lang=en" target="_blank"><img src="https://images2.imgbox.com/64/b1/oh4tfzkH_o.png"></a><br></font></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>