Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) Toolbox

Wood Energy

This module outlines the challenges and opportunities associated with the production and use of woodfuel and its socioeconomic and environmental impacts in developing countries. It discusses the role of value-chain approaches in addressing existing problems in the wood energy sector, and it briefly discusses the large-scale industrial use of woodfuel. 

WISDOM is a spatially-explicit method designed to support strategic wood energy planning and policy formulation, through the integration and analysis of existing woodfuel demand and supply related information and indicators. The Slovenia WISDOM analysis was based on 2696 Cadastral Communities (KO, from Katastrske Obþine), which represent the Slovenian territorial structure and...
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...
There is an urgent need for spatial explicit approaches that help in strategic planning and that follow a hierarchical analysis through multiple spatial scales: first identifying priority areas at the country level, and second, within each priority area, helping identify critical sites for the implementation of projects. In this manner,...
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