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Book Governance of woodfuel value chains in Kenya

Download or read book Governance of woodfuel value chains in Kenya written by Sola, P. and published by CIFOR. This book was released on 2020-12-31 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Successful woodfuel value chain governance is dependent on the existence of known policies that are implemented, rules and regulations that are enforced and complied with by value chain actors and institutions with capacity to regulate and render support. Kenya has formulated policies nd enacted legislation for guiding, managing and supporting woodfuel value chains. These policies and legal frameworks have evolved over the years, integrating provisions for sustainable production, distribution and use of woodfuel. However, even with well-developed policies and legislative frameworks, charcoal value chains are inadequately governed, beset by illegality, weak institutional arrangements, overlapping mandates and limited coordination and cooperation. Nonetheless, charcoal value chains have remained resilient despite the bans and moratoria throughout the decades and likely to continue in the foreseeable future. Limited knowledge, lack of incentives for sustainable production and limited support for organized efforts to manage woodfuel resources are contributing to low compliance with rules and regulations. Therefore, the development and implementation of interventions coupled with appropriate investments to incentivize and catalyze sustainable woodfuel production and trade cannot be over emphasized.

Book Towards sustainable charcoal production and trade in Baringo County

Download or read book Towards sustainable charcoal production and trade in Baringo County written by Bourne, M. and published by CIFOR. This book was released on 2020-08-28 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Key messagesWoodfuel, particularly charcoal, is an important energy source in urban areas and a livelihood source in rural areas.Actors in the Baringo–Nairobi charcoal value chain get between KES 107 and 613 per bag of charcoal depending on their location and role.In most parts of Baringo County, charcoal is produced from the invasive species Prosopis juliflora (mathenge, also known in some countries as ‘mesquite’).Community members, stakeholders and county officials identified priorities for the production and governance of the mathenge charcoal value chain.Strategies include proper management of biomass, efficient processing and effective utilization, and adequately regulated and supported value chains from production to consumption.Good governance of woodfuel value chains will only be achieved when there are transparent, consistent and coordinated regulatory institutional mechanisms that support and incentivize compliance and penalize illegality along the whole value chain. The County Environment Committee initiated a governance process, whilst community members have been engaged in sustainable mathenge charcoal production in Marigat Sub-county.

Book Towards sustainable charcoal production and trade in Kitui County

Download or read book Towards sustainable charcoal production and trade in Kitui County written by Sola, P. and published by CIFOR. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Key messages Woodfuel, particularly charcoal, is an important livelihood source in Kitui County, with consumption largely in urban areas within and beyond the county, where it is still a critical energy source. While charcoal movement out of the county has been banned since 2018, trade has continued in some form because of inadequate support, guidance and regulation. While briquette production has been promoted, it has not seen substantial demand. Because charcoal production has continued, a sustainable charcoal value chain in Kitui County has to be explored, including i) management of woodlands and sustainable harvesting of trees, e.g. through natural regeneration and enrichment planting of trees on degraded private and public lands; ii) promotion of efficient processing and carbonization; and iii) efficient and clean cooking. Current institutional arrangements for guiding, supporting and controlling the value chain activities and actors can be improved to enhance the sustainability, enforcement, compliance, capacity and competitiveness of local value chains. World Agroforestry (ICRAF), Adventist Development Relief Agency (ADRA) and partners undertook a number of activities in Kitui County and more widely in Kenya as a whole to generate evidence, knowledge and policy options, and to facilitate engagement for more sustainable woodfuel value chains under the project entitled Governing Multifunctional Landscapes (GML) in sub-Saharan Africa launched in 2018. This brief summarises the key interventions and learnings from the project with particular focus on Kitui County.

Book Pathways to more sustainable woodfuel value chains

Download or read book Pathways to more sustainable woodfuel value chains written by Schure, J. and published by CIFOR. This book was released on 2021-11-11 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book From laissez faire to organized groups A short history of sustainable charcoal producer associations in Kenya and Zambia

Download or read book From laissez faire to organized groups A short history of sustainable charcoal producer associations in Kenya and Zambia written by Grouwels, S. and published by CIFOR. This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Woodfuel Value Chain in Kenya and Rwanda

Download or read book Woodfuel Value Chain in Kenya and Rwanda written by Geoffrey Ndegwa and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-27 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sustainable woodfuel for food security

Download or read book Sustainable woodfuel for food security written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against a global backdrop of climate change, widespread food insecurity, deforestation and forest degradation, this paper highlights the role of sustainable woodfuel in improving food security. It provides insights into how this role can be strengthened, including through forest management reforms. The widespread availability of woodfuel can present opportunities for employment and sustainable value chains

Book Beyond the Woodfuel Crisis

Download or read book Beyond the Woodfuel Crisis written by Gerald Leach and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People scratching a living from parched land, women walking miles for scraps of firewood are both familiar images of Africa. But, in many places, people, with the help of governments and aid agencies, are putting the land into good shape, growing more food and creating a healthy cover of trees. This book joins the ?literature of hope? by looking at these advances from the viewpoint of the energy crisis of the poor. This crisis can only be solved by going beyond the narrow confines of energy to consider all the needs of local people and the potential for change. Drawing on a wide range of case histories, the authors describe the gains in farming and forestry ? and woodfuel supply ? that have come about through this broader, people-centered approach. They also write about woodfuel prices, markets and other key elements of survival strategies for the cities. Huge efforts will be needed to recover from the failures of the past, but Leach and Mearns show that important lessons are at last being learned and that new roads to success can be mapped.Originally published in 1988

Book WHO household energy policy repository

Download or read book WHO household energy policy repository written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2023-12-04 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Urban Food Systems Governance and Poverty in African Cities

Download or read book Urban Food Systems Governance and Poverty in African Cities written by Jane Battersby and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-08-22 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Africa urbanises and the focus of poverty shifts to urban centres, there is an imperative to address poverty in African cities. This is particularly the case in smaller cities, which are often the most rapidly urbanising, but the least able to cope with this growth. This book argues that an examination of the food system and food security provides a valuable lens to interrogate urban poverty. Chapters examine the linkages between poverty, urban food systems and local governance with a focus on case studies from three smaller or secondary cities in Africa: Kisumu (Kenya), Kitwe (Zambia) and Epworth (Zimbabwe). The book makes a wider contribution to debates on urban studies and urban governance in Africa through analysis of the causes and consequences of the paucity of urban-scale data for decision makers, and by presenting potential methodological innovations to address this paucity. As the global development agenda is increasingly focusing on urban issues, most notably the urban goal of the new Sustainable Development Goals and the New Urban Agenda, the work is timely. The Open Access version of this book, available at: http://www.tandfebooks.com/doi/view/10.4324/9781315191195, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Book Commercial Woodfuel Production

Download or read book Commercial Woodfuel Production written by Weltbank and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Woodfuels (firewood and charcoal) are the dominant energy source and the leading forest product for most developing countries. Representing 60 to 80 percent of total wood consumption in these nations, woodfuels often account for 50 to 90 percent of all energy used. Although woodfuels are widely perceived as cheap and primitive sources of energy, commercial woodfuel markets are frequently very large, involve significant levels of finance, and provide an important source of income through the supply chain for the rural poor. However, the woodfuel sector in many developing countries operates informally and inefficiently, using out-dated technology and delivering little official revenue to the government. The unsustainable harvesting of woodfuels to supply large urban and industrial markets can also contribute to forest degradation and deforestation. Given the low carbon development opportunity presented by wood energy, predictions of significant growth in woodfuel demand make it vital that this industry is overhauled and modernized using new technologies, approaches, and governance mechanisms. This report profiles three promising models of commercial forestry that can contribute to modernization and rationalization of the wood energy sector in developing countries: (i) community-based forest management (CBFM), (ii) private woodlots in Sub-Saharan Africa, and (iii) forest replacement associations (FRA) in Latin America.

Book Woodfuel Supply Chain Integration in the South West of England

Download or read book Woodfuel Supply Chain Integration in the South West of England written by Pedro Andres Garzon Delvaux and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wood energy market remains nascent in the UK, despite climate change policies and energy security concerns. Transaction costs have been identified as one barrier to woodfuel development. However, few studies provide explicit insights into such barriers to spontaneous exchange in this sector and how they influence its formation. The study approaches the development of woodfuel in the South West Region of England through Transaction Costs Economics (TCE) and aims to identify the appropriate governance structure of the supply chain as a response to existing transactions costs. When transaction costs increase, seamless market exchange gradually gives way to credible contracting and even to full vertical integration or unified ownership. The TCE approach provides insights to analyse friction and barriers to exchange and allows for a dialogue between economics, law and day-to-day business decision-making. Fuel procurement from woodfuel suppliers to woodfuel users is central to this project in looking at the barriers to exchange. Original data was collected through 42 in-depth interviews, mainly with suppliers themselves but also from Forestry Commission, regional agencies, NGOs and lobbies involved. The results suggest the influence of transaction costs. Also, there is some evidence that wood-energy regional actors are embracing organisational diversity from known rural business structures to less familiar ones in the UK, such as cooperatives and new partnerships as answers to, among other factors, transaction costs. The evidence suggests that not only support to demand and supply is necessary, as generally identified, but it is also needed at its interface by supporting the governance of the supply chain. Some practical implications for both public and private sectors are identified to better articulate the response to this need.

Book Governance and upgrading in high value chains of non timber forest products

Download or read book Governance and upgrading in high value chains of non timber forest products written by Kai Scholz and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: