Dear Samer, Thanks for sharing, but if indeed this is fully the case, I wonder why the reduction of deforestation features so heavily on most cookstove marketing pitches. (even mine sometimes!)
Further interesting reading that somewhat supports this is a very good presentation done by ICRAF recently, that is aptly titled, "What Happened to the Charcoal Crisis" http://www.slideshare.net/agroforestry/miyuki-iiyamaicrafcharcoal-review2013 It is a very good systematic review of many other woodfuel papers in East Africa. It seems to be that on farm woodfuel is becoming more and more of income generating wood energy source. All the best, Teddy *Cookswell Jikos* www.cookswell.co.ke www.facebook.com/CookswellJikos www.kenyacharcoal.blogspot.com Mobile: +254 700 380 009 Mobile: +254 700 905 913 P.O. Box 1433, Nairobi 00606, Kenya On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 9:31 PM, Samer Abdelnour <[email protected]>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 > [email protected] > > 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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