{"id":10036,"date":"2020-06-18T08:33:14","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T05:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=10036"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:31:07","slug":"the-heat-is-on-managing-wood-fuel-sustainably-in-sub-saharan-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/06\/18\/the-heat-is-on-managing-wood-fuel-sustainably-in-sub-saharan-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"The Heat Is On: Managing Wood Fuel Sustainably in Sub-Saharan Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wood fuel is a major component of Africa\u2019s future and will remain a significant source of renewable energy in the region by 2040, according to the International Energy Agency\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iea.org\/reports\/africa-energy-outlook-2019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">regional energy outlook<\/a>. How the region will cope with the demands of its fast-growing population, without compromising its forests, is a huge challenge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe need effective and innovative interventions to reduce demand and enhance the sustainability of wood fuel supply,\u201d said Xia Zuzhang, a forestry officer at the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), who spoke at the recent&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.globallandscapesforum.org\/\">Global Landscapes Forum<\/a>&nbsp;(GLF) digital conference in Bonn, Germany on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/events.globallandscapesforum.org\/agenda\/bonn-2020\/3-june-2020\/sustainable-wood-fuel-value-chains-for-food-security-in-sub-saharan-africa\/\">sustainable wood fuel value chains for food security in sub-Saharan Africa<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, 2.8 billion people globally lack access to clean cooking solutions, the majority of which rely heavily on harvested wood and trees from the forests, a recent\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/trackingsdg7.esmap.org\/data\/files\/download-documents\/tracking_sdg_7_2020-full_report_-_web_0.pdf\">Sustainable Development Goals<\/a>\u00a0progress report on affordable and clean energy revealed. In Africa, around\u00a063 percent of households\u00a0use wood fuel for cooking, FAO reports. <a href=\"https:\/\/forestsnews.cifor.org\/65959\/the-heat-is-on-managing-wood-fuel-sustainably-in-sub-saharan-africa?fnl=en\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wood fuel is a major component of Africa\u2019s future and will remain a significant source of renewable energy in the region by 2040, according to the International Energy Agency\u2019s&nbsp;regional energy&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}