Fuelwood revisited: what has changed in the last decade?

By Michael Arnold, G. Kohlin, R. Persson, G. Shepherd. 2003

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The impact of woodfuel collection on forests has been controversial and its role in rural livelihoods and deforestation the subject of considerable debate. This study reviews the main dimensions of this discourse and the resulting responses from the forestry sector. It assesses new information that has come to light over the past decade, looking at national and global trends in woodfuel production and use and the evolution of patterns of urban and rural demand and supply. It examines livelihood and environmental dimensions of relevance to forestry and outlines some of the main issues that warrant additional attention. It is thus intended more as a foundation for further discussion, rather than being a set of prescriptions for action by forestry, though where these are evident they are identified.

Subfields: Agronomy and Crop Science, Global and Planetary Change, Mechanics of Materials

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Household cooking fuel choice and adoption of improved cookstoves in developing countries : a review (2014, background): “Over the past two decades, more extensive analysis has demonstrated that biomass, mainly fuelwood, used for cooking is not the major cause of deforestation worldwide, though there may be few cases in specific parts of the world (McGranahan, 1991; Arnold et al., 2003).”
Ecological effects of small-scale cutting of Philippine mangrove forests (2005, background): “This is a considerable oversight given that hundreds of millions of rural people living in and adjacent to forests in the tropics exploit them for construction materials, fuel wood and other nontimber products (Nepstad and Schwartzman, 1992; Peters, 1996a; Arnold et al., 2003).”
Poverty and firewood consumption : A case study of rural households in northern China (2011, background): “As stated by Arnold et al. (2003), “how responsive fuelwood demand is to its own price is at the heart of the fuelwood scarcity issue” (p. 10).”
Demand for cooking fuels in a developing country: To what extent do taste and preferences matter? (2011, methodology): “Although this analysis is based on cross-sectional data, it confirms that households’ most preferred energy (i.e., LPG) is the fuel found by most earlier studies to be on the top of the “fuel ladder” (see, e.g., Gundimeda and Kohlin, 2008; Arnold et al., 2003).”
Woody biomass energy potential in 2050 (2014, background): “The reason for this simplification is that in low income countries household fuelwood is often used for cooking and cannot be replaced by fossil fuels, which would require investments in new stoves (Arnold et al., 2010; IARC, 2010; May-Tobin, 2011).”
Fuelwood, forests and community management – evidence from household studies (2008, background): “2 Arnold et al. (2003) also reviews the global dependence on fuelwood.”
Bioenergy and sustainable development (2007, background): “Notably, as a complement to such programs that are focused on the provision and dissemination of improved cookstoves, it is also critical to focus on forest and biomass management policies to make sure that the landless have access to wood fuel (20).”
What makes people adopt improved cookstoves? Empirical evidence from rural northwest Pakistan (2012, background): “…of energy efficient cooking technology such as improved biomass stoves is considered as one of the most technically feasible, socially reliable, and economically viable interventions available (Arnold et al., 2003; Masera et al., 2005; Karekezi et al., 2006; Bhattacharya and Salam, 2006).”