The scope of the study is to analyze wood energy and poverty situation in ten countries of East and Central Africa: Rwanda, Kenya, Egypt, Burundi, DR Congo, Eritrea, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. The study intends to contribute to the identification of areas where rural and suburban populations that depend primarily on woodfuels for their subsistence energy supply, are likely to suffer severe shortages, thus adding a new important dimension to the mapping of extreme poverty. The data collected in the for the WISDOM database allowed for the creation of maps of woody biomass stocking and potential sustainable productivity with high spatial resolution. Similarly, the integration of population distribution maps with fuelwood and charcoal consumption values by sector and by rural settlements and urban areas resulting from the review of a wide variety of sources, allowed the creation of woodfuel consumption maps at the spatial resolution of less than 1 km.

Type of Case
Printed publication (book, sourcebook, journal article…)

Publisher
FAO

Region
Africa

Biome
Temperate, Tropical

Forest Type
All forest types (natural and planted)

Primary Designated Function
Production