<div dir="ltr"><div>Has there ever been a ban on charcoal that has worked anywhere in Africa? </div><div><br></div><div><i>“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.  <br></i></div><div><i><br></i></div><i>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).<br><br>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.<br><br>“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. </i><div><br></div><div><a href="https://forestsnews.cifor.org/65959/the-heat-is-on-managing-wood-fuel-sustainably-in-sub-saharan-africa?fnl=en">https://forestsnews.cifor.org/65959/the-heat-is-on-managing-wood-fuel-sustainably-in-sub-saharan-africa?fnl=en</a>  <br><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDP-j5RdSUU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDP-j5RdSUU</a>   <br><br><br><br clear="all"><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></div>