Is there a fuelwood crisis in rural Mali? |
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Authors: | Tor A Benjaminsen |
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Institution: | (1) Research Fellow, Center for Development and the Environment (SUM), University of Oslo, P.O. Box 1116 Blindern, 0317 Oslo, Norway |
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Abstract: | The study takes a conventional supply and demand approach to the study of fuelwood use. It compares estimated wood production in West African bush and forest formations based on an available equation using rainfall data with own collected data on local wood consumption in a village in southern Mali. To allow comparison, data from 49 other villages in the same area are analysed. This study, toget her with an earlier study in northern Mali, indicates that locally induced deforestation caused by fuelwood use does not represent an immediate problem in rural Mali. Local use of fuelwood does not seem to be exceeding forest regeneration. However, where there is external pressure on the forest represented by commercial exploitation of wood for sale in the urban centres, fuelwood depletion might occur. |
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