Message-ID: <9609122201.AA09168@hagar> Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 20:01:45 +0200 From: Grant Ballard-Tremeer <mailto:btremeer@HAGAR.MECH.WITS.AC.ZA> Subject: Wood fuel use To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
Senanu Afealete,I can reply only to your question about wood fuel use in southern africa - whether this is part of the 'dryland areas of Africa' I am not sure.
Consumption rates are a function of fuel availability. I have measured a consumption of roughly 3 kg/capita/day in the north eastern part of South Africa - all of this in collected wood. For rural wood usage this is a fairly typical figure. The is a paper on Zimbabwe biofuel use where the range 1.8 to 4.5 kg/capita/day (mean 3.2) is reported (forthcoming J. of Biomass and Bioenergy, authors Marufu, Ludwig, Andreae, Meixner & Helas).
Have a look at the publication list of the University of Cape Town's Energy for Development Research Centre for other references and leads to your other questions (such as carrying capacities). In particular an article by Aron Eberhard, and Gandar. Their web page is: http://www.edr.uct.ac.za/index.html
Hope this helps Grant Ballard-Tremeer