Wood fuel data and production trends in Africa
As part of the International Energy Association’s Africa University Program, FAO presented a webinar "Wood fuel production in Africa – The information and data we have now and opportunities for collecting more" on 1 July 2021.
We begin with a description of the data currently available on wood fuel for Africa and trends in production of both wood fuel and wood charcoal. We focus on building an understanding of the possible sources of data on wood fuel production and on guiding questions for the design of new surveys to improve the availability of wood fuel production data as well as provide a description of progress in on-going work to estimate wood fuel production where official data are unavailable.
Finally, we introduce FAO’s new online database and platform for information sharing on wood energy projects.
All Africa University sessions are available here.