Sentences with word «fuelwood»

Production of fuelwood is significant in only a few industrialized countries including the United States, Mexico, Finland, Sweden and Austria among others.

In the Vilcanota Reserve Network of southern Peru, we supported an amazing milestone in 2015: one million trees planted for habitat restoration and for fuelwood plantations, benefiting birds like Royal Cinclodes.

In industrial nations the greatest opportunity lies in reducing the quantity of wood used to make paper, and in developing countries it depends on reducing fuelwood use.

Global industrial roundwood production was about 1.7 billion cubic metres in 2005, compared with fuelwood production of approximately 1.8 billion cubic metres (FAO, 2007c).

Only three Parties (France, Sweden and Switzerland) included fuelwood consumption in the sub-category changes in forest and other woody biomass stocks, but other Parties (Canada, Finland, Netherlands, Switzerland, United Kingdom and United States) reported biomass burning in the fuel consumption sub-categories.

In places where work is scarce there may be increased pressure on natural resources for subsistence use including fuelwood harvesting and slash - and - burn cultivation.

Biogas also helps families to achieve savings on fuelwood.

Renewable energy's share of the global energy supply has increased from 7 % by 2004 to over 8 % by 2009 and 2010 (excluding traditional biofuels such as fuelwood and charcoal).

It also reduces the amount of time spent gathering fuelwood and cooking - time which can be redirected to more productive activities or to acquire new knowledge and skills.

Many of these trees are pollinated only by birds and provide farmers with fuelwood and fruit in addition to shading their coffee.

Using a general stylized forest sector management model, our study examines the economic potential of traditional industrial forests and supplemental dedicated fuelwood plantations to produce biomass on submarginal lands.

This does not only meet peoples» food, fodder and fuelwood needs, but it provides superior energy - protein output to that obtained from today's monoculture practice of growing high - yielding varieties.

But the few people that are getting rich off of illegal logging will increase the impoverishment of the many who depend on those forests that provide fuelwood, building materials, and most importantly, ecological functions such as water capture and retention.

Meeting the growing fuelwood demand in developing countries will require an estimated 55 million additional hectares of forested area.

Some international aid agencies, including the U.S. Agency for International Development (AID), are sponsoring fuelwood efficiency projects.

Noting that in the developing countries some 1.6 billion people still lack access to electricity and about 2.4 billion continue to rely on traditional biomass like fuelwood for cooking and heating, Annan calls for intensified efforts to promote renewable energy sources for the poor.

DelAgua will generate verified carbon credits following an ACR - approved methodology to quantify the emissions reductions from the decreased fuelwood use from more efficient cookstoves and water filters.

Forest plantations dedicated to the production of wood for energy have existed in many countries for some time (NAS, 1980), though most of them are small, use poorly developed technology and generally focus on supplying fuelwood for local consumption.

Since fuelwood is mainly used in private households and is often traded informally, it is difficult to collect good country - level data.

A high EROEI means greater price stability over time for fuelwood because the net energy yield is less affected by inputs than other fuels.

Fuelwood accounts for 89 percent of Africa's wood harvest, where it is often the only accessible and affordable source of energy for heating and cooking, but only 17 percent in North and Central America, where other energy sources are more readily available.

Solar, geothermal, and wind energy potentials and indicators of hydroelectric and biomass energy potentials (fuelwood harvested, rivers, and precipitation) are presented.

Bioenergy can, for instance, be derived from solid woodfuels, such as fuelwood and charcoal or from liquid biofuels, such as black liquor (a by - product from the paper industry) and ethanol obtained from wood.

Fuelwood use is increasing in all Africa's regions, although at a diminishing rate.

With some 1.6 billion people in developing countries still lacking access to electricity, and about 2.4 billion still relying on fuelwood and crop and animal residues for cooking and heating, United Nations Secretary - General Kofi Annan has called for intensified efforts to promote access to new and renewable energy sources for the poor.

Here is a sample EROEI analysis for fuelwood.

That's a pretty clearcut need given the risks attending the unfettered use of fossil fuels and the reality that 2 billion people today cook on guttering fires using fuelwood or dung harvested mainly by girls who are not going to school as a result.

It is not possible to say whether the remaining Parties excluded estimates of fuelwood or biomass burning as the information available was not adequate and it is possible that national harvest statistics have taken them into account.

She tells me she has to travel longer to harvest fuelwood.

Fuelwood is wood in the rough such as branches, twigs, logs, chips, sawdust and pellets, used for energy generation.

Fuelwood as a proportion of total harvested wood from FAO, op.

mopane woodland of Colophospermum mopane - a multi-purpose hardwood tree species used for fodder, house building, and fuelwood

As a general rule, in the SRES scenarios an increasing affluence causes energy use per capita to rise and leads to the substitution of solid fuels, such as coal and fuelwood, with energy forms of higher quality.

Third, tree based agricultural systems often provide additional benefits such as fruits, fodder, fuelwood and timber and thereby diversifies the production system to buffer against weather related production losses and hence raise smallholder resilience against climate impacts (Nair et al..

The map shows the fuelwood production in the different countries.

The following map shows the fuelwood production in the different countries.

In many of the world's developing countries, fuelwood and charcoal (traditional bioenergy) remain the primary source of energy.

Developing countries mainly use fuelwood and charcoal for domestic heating and cooking, but increasingly also for commercial activities such as fish drying, tobacco curing and brick baking.

Woodfuel includes solids (fuelwood and charcoal), liquids (black liquor, methanol, and pyrolitic oil) and gases from the gasification of these fuels.

Developing countries account for almost 90 percent of the world's woodfuel (fuelwood and charcoal) consumption and wood is still the primary source of energy for cooking and heating in developing countries (Broadhead, Bahdon and Whiteman, 2001).

The vast majority of fuelwood is still produced and consumed locally.

About 65 percent of global industrial roundwood was produced in industrialized countries, compared with only about 13 percent of fuelwood.

There are, however, problems with data availability, and household surveys of fuelwood - use have shown considerable consumption in several other industrialised countries (Steierer et al., 2007).

Fuelwood is the predominant form of wood energy in rural areas of most developing countries, while charcoal remains a significant energy source in many African, Asian and Latin American urban households.

The largest producers of fuelwood are India (306 million cubic metres), China (191 million cubic metres) and Brazil (138 million cubic metres).

Estimates of wood use in Africa show the vast majority of removals are for fuelwood and that the quantities consumed in industrial applications are relatively insignificant everywhere except in Southern Africa (Figure 12).

Fuelwood consumption (charcoal and firewood), agriculture, illegal logging and forest fires are the main drivers of its rapidly disappearing forests.

Forest degradation emissions were primarily from logging, fuelwood harvesting and forest fires.