The development goal of the program is to achieve sustainable rural development with long term livelihood and environmental benefits to rural populations and the global community under climate change through high value bio carbon approaches in West Africa. University of Eastern Finland is coordinating WP 1.4 to improve fuel wood use efficiency and develop sustainable wood energy systems in Burkina Faso and Sierra Leone. The field measurements gave valid information About the tree species distributions and the forest structure. This information was then used to derive attributes such as tree density, volume, amount of logwood, amount of fuel wood etc. This information was highly valuable when assessing the potentials for sustainable forest management and fuel wood use.
Publication year
2016
Authors
Language
English
Keywords
rural development, charcoal production
Geographic
Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso
