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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Rome, 1991

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Case study no. 1 - A study of energy utilization and requirements in the rural sector of Botswana*

1. Introduction

2. Objectives

3. Approach and survey work

4. Results and conclusions

4.1 Results of the five-village survey
4.2 Results of biomass survey and calibration of Landsat imagery
4.3 Results of rural energy demand modelling
4.4 Conclusions
4.5 Recommendations

Appendix 1 - Sample survey questionnaires

Appendix 2 - Biomass survey and mapping vegetation types from Landsat satellite imagery

Appendix 3 - Botswana rural energy demand model

Appendix 4 - Assessment of statistical error in woodfuel consumption estimates

Appendix 5 - Description and cost breakdown of fuelwood plantation model and indigenous woodland management

Case study no. 2 - Participative planning in rural energy: Concepts, methodology and experience in Coquimbo, Chile*

I. Introduction

II. Conceptual background

1. Development: an active learning process
2. Potentialities rather than problems
3. Development practice: Creating capabilities for innovative action
4. Planning core: Animating innovation

III. Participative planning methodology

1. Lines of action and action map
2. The general outline
3. Methodological phases

IV. The Coquimbo experience

1. Project background
2. Socio-economic and environmental conditions*
3. Action maps for energy-related action
4. Institutional diagnoses
5. Potentialities evaluated
6. Demonstrating potentialities: Two experiences
7. Animating in Cuz Cuz: Results on fuelwood equipment

References

Case study no. 3 - Rural energy planning studies in Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal*

I. Introduction

II. The project and its objectives

Nepal
Reflections
Extension of PAR for Rural Energy Development
Conclusions