Colince, Thats curous to me because what I have always read and observed is that taken in the long term, 70% of the wood is cut for fuelwood use for cooking in Africa and much of asia as well. It may be that the first tie aq land is cleared i is used as you say but these uses aside form biofuel feed cultivation are less frequent uses of the wood, whereas fuelwood cooking is an ongoing depletion. But what do you mean by biofuel feedstock cultivation via a vis deforestation?
Kind regards, Richard Stanley www.legacyfound.org On Jan 14, 2014, at 4:20 AM, Nguelo C wrote: Yeah you are right! Deforestation occurs here in central AFRICA especially for wood for construction, agriculture and biofuel feedstock cultivation. wood for cooking commes after all others activities! Cheers, Colince Nguelo Cameroon On Monday, January 13, 2014 7:31 PM, Samer Abdelnour <samer.abdeln...@gmail.com> wrote: Dear all, Just to contribute on the deforestation discussion. A dated (1997) by excellent resource by the FAO, which concluded that deforestation occurs mainly as a result of pressures for agricultural land, logging, and national infrastructure projects, not for cooking. http://www.fao.org/docrep/w7744e/w7744e06.htm Of course, I applaud efforts to source cleaner, more sustainable fuel. Perhaps these should be grounded in location specific challenges (i.e. community nurseries), not distorted by general mythologies associated with global problems and magic bullets. Best, Samer _______________________________________________ Stoves mailing list to Send a Message to the list, use the email address stoves@lists.bioenergylists.org to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/stoves_lists.bioenergylists.org for more Biomass Cooking Stoves, News and Information see our web site: http://stoves.bioenergylists.org/ _______________________________________________ Stoves mailing list to Send a Message to the list, use the email address stoves@lists.bioenergylists.org to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/stoves_lists.bioenergylists.org for more Biomass Cooking Stoves, News and Information see our web site: http://stoves.bioenergylists.org/
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