Urban and rural fuelwood situation in the tropical rain-forest area of south-west Nigeria

Kersten, Inge; Baumbach, Günter; Oluwole, A. F.; Obioh, I. B.; Ogunsola, O.J.

doi:10.1016/s0360-5442(98)00025-5

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“…This interesting reduction in per capita fuelwood consumption with an increase in number of persons in the household has also been observed by Ramachandra et al (2000) and Hussain et al (2016a, b). The result of this study is also consistent with the results of research conducted by Top et al (2003), Hussain et al (2016a, b), Bhat et al (2015), Kituyi et al (2001), Hosier (1985) in Kenya, Marufu et al (1999) in Zimbabwe, Mahapatra and Mitchell (1999) in India, Kumar and Sharma (2009) in Garhwal Himalaya in India and Kersten et al (1998) in Nigeria.…”

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confidence: 92%

Fuelwood consumption patterns by semi-nomadic pastoralist community and its implication on conservation of Corbett Tiger Reserve, India

Hussain

Dasgupta

Bargali³

2016

Energ. Ecol. Environ.

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The local folk of Himalaya have natural coexistence with the forests and depend on these bounty natural resources for their livelihood. The present study was carried out on semi-nomadic pastoralist for the study of forest use patterns. The main source of livelihood was found to be homogeneous (pastoralism) within each settlement. The study records 26 tree species preferred for fuelwood consumption. Overall average fuelwood consumption was 20.09 ± 0.7 kg day -1 family -1 . The average per capita fuelwood consumption was 2.77 kg day -1 . Average fuelwood consumption by very large families is significantly higher than small families. The principal component analysis explain lopping, extraction and anthropogenic activities for biomass extraction as a major factor of disturbance in forests. We also examined the present forest wood consumption rate and its implications in terms of potential deforestation and emission of greenhouse gases. The findings in the paper could form the basis for designing appropriate technologies and management policies in the region.

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Fuelwood consumption patterns by semi-nomadic pastoralist community and its implication on conservation of Corbett Tiger Reserve, India

Hussain

Dasgupta

Bargali³

2016

Energ. Ecol. Environ.

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“…The government does not play any role to regulate the charcoal market and does not influence the speculations. This situation is not specific to Togo but consistent with most countries in the sub-region (Kersten et al, 1998).…”

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confidence: 70%

Impact of Charcoal Production on Biodiversity in Togo (West Africa)

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Atsri²,

Adjonou³

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The Importance of Biological Interactions in the Study of Biodiversity

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“…The country which dominates fuelwood use in Africa, Nigeria, is included in this group, although its northern provinces are in the Sahel region. Our estimate for Nigeria is based on the Silviconsult, Ltd., survey (over 2350 households) of the five northern provinces [Hyman, 1994] and the very careful surveys of Kersten et al [1998] in the Osun State of southern Nigeria. Kersten et al [1998] found that even in the rural areas where an adequate supply of wood was available, there was low per capita consumption.…”

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An assessment of biofuel use and burning of agricultural waste in the developing world

Yevich

Logan

2003

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

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[1] We present an assessment of biofuel use and agricultural field burning in the developing world. We used information from government statistics, energy assessments from the World Bank, and many technical reports, as well as from discussions with experts in agronomy, forestry, and agro-industries. We estimate that 2060 Tg biomass fuel was used in the developing world in 1985; of this, 66% was burned in Asia, and 21% and 13% in Africa and Latin America, respectively. Agricultural waste supplies about 33% of total biofuel use, providing 39%, 29%, and 13% of biofuel use in Asia, Latin America, and Africa, and 41% and 51% of the biofuel use in India and China. We find that 400 Tg of crop residues are burned in the fields, with the fraction of available residue burned in 1985 ranging from 1% in China, 16-30% in the Middle East and India, to about 70% in Indonesia; in Africa about 1% residue is burned in the fields of the northern drylands, but up to 50% in the humid tropics. We distributed this biomass burning on a spatial grid with resolution of 1°Â 1°, and applied emission factors to the amount of dry matter burned to give maps of trace gas emissions in the developing world. The emissions of CO from biofuel use in the developing world, 156 Tg, are about 50% of the estimated global CO emissions from fossil fuel use and industry. The emission of 0.9 Pg C (as CO 2 ) from burning of biofuels and field residues together is small, but nonnegligible when compared with the emissions of CO 2 from fossil fuel use and industry, 5.3 Pg C. The biomass burning source of 10 Tg/yr for CH 4 and 2.2 Tg N/yr of NO x are relatively small when compared with total CH 4 and NO x sources; this source of NO x may be important on a regional basis.

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Urban and rural fuelwood situation in the tropical rain-forest area of south-west Nigeria

Cited by 34 publications

References 8 publications

Fuelwood consumption patterns by semi-nomadic pastoralist community and its implication on conservation of Corbett Tiger Reserve, India

Fuelwood consumption patterns by semi-nomadic pastoralist community and its implication on conservation of Corbett Tiger Reserve, India

Impact of Charcoal Production on Biodiversity in Togo (West Africa)

An assessment of biofuel use and burning of agricultural waste in the developing world

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