Twenty Years of Resolving the Irresolvable: Approaches to the Fuelwood Problem in Kenya

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dc.contributor.authorMahiri, I.
dc.contributor.authorHoworth, C.
dc.date.accessioned2023-04-12T08:42:36Z
dc.date.available2023-04-12T08:42:36Z
dc.date.issued2001
dc.descriptionArticleen_US
dc.description.abstractResolving the fuelwood problem in Kenya has been the cause of many debates. A review of the literature reveals the changing emphasis on the cause and effect of the problem. The dominant focus links fuelwood consumption with environmental degradation. This view has been perpetuated and reinforced by the ‘Woodfuel Gap’ theory of supply and demand differentials, based on population growth. The demand mitigation has been addressed through the ‘Fuelwood Orthodoxy’ approach and energy technologies. This paper shows that deforestation, and subsequent degradation, has little to do with fuelwood consumption as much is extracted from outside the forest. Therefore, costly interventions of afforestation programmes have had little impact in addressing the issue. The locale-specificity of the fuelwood problem means there can be no simple, technical solution. The local nature of shortages means that national projections cannot capture the complex socio-economic and cultural issues. Such complexity and diversity of rural contexts demand that the rural energy problem cannot be treated in isolation from the equally pressing issues of poverty, labour, food, culture and values. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipUniversity of Durhum Research Studentshipen_US
dc.identifier.citationMahiri, I., & Howorth, C. (2001). Twenty years of resolving the irresolvable: approaches to the fuelwood problem in Kenya. Land Degradation & Development, 12(3), 205-215.en_US
dc.identifier.otherdoi.org/10.1002/ldr.433
dc.identifier.urihttp://ir-library.ku.ac.ke/handle/123456789/25160
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherWiley Online Libraryen_US
dc.subjectenvironmental degradationen_US
dc.subjectfuelwooden_US
dc.subjectKenyaen_US
dc.subjectWoodfuel Gap theoryen_US
dc.subjectGender and land useen_US
dc.titleTwenty Years of Resolving the Irresolvable: Approaches to the Fuelwood Problem in Kenyaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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