Figure 2 shows the emissions of particulate matter from fuelwood use in Bergen, divided by urban district. |
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Although there was a scarcity of fuelwood, it hardly served as an initiating factor. |
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This effect is mainly visible in the post-harvest season, where fuelwood is a determinant of food intake. |
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This was the method that forest departments used to adopt earlier to sell fuelwood in their depots. |
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The increased availability of fuelwood and tree leaves for fodder are key benefits of forest regeneration. |
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The survival of poor landless farmers depends on the availability of forest resources for shifting cultivation and supplies of fuelwood. |
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Nearly every acre of the countryside has been grazed by cattle, tilled for crops, or cut for fuelwood. |
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We tend to think of energy from plants as Ethiopians stripping the forest for fuelwood. |
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With these forest resources close by, people do not grow any trees expressly for fodder or fuelwood on their own cropland. |
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Legally, subsistence collection of fuelwood and timber is now more expensive, time consuming, and subject to corruption. |
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Originally, the species was introduced from Australia by the British around the 1850s to save the native forests from being used as fuelwood. |
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The objective of the family plot policy was to encourage farmers to plant trees to meet their needs for fuelwood and timber. |
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The trees may be planted around the perimeter of a small farm to provide fuelwood and to serve as a windbreak. |
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In households with biogas units, women benefit through reduced time and effort in collecting and managing fuelwood supplies. |
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Commercializing of improved charcoal cookstoves is another means of encouraging people to conserve fuelwood. |
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Inaccessible, distant, or policed areas serve as refugia for genetic stocks of highly preferred fuelwood and kraalwood species. |
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Forests are a vital resource for the rural poor that provide income, shelter, food, fuelwood and fodder. |
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Hunting, fishing and fuelwood cutting provide subsistence for area residents. |
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The improvements will reduce the use of fuelwood and allow thousands of communities to enjoy uninterrupted access to electrical power. |
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The largest human impacts upon forests normally were results of routine quests for the land underneath forests or for the timber and fuelwood in them. |
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When small-scale farmers chop down a plot of forest in Africa, they may want to sell timber, to collect fuelwood, or to grow crops. |
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Every year, large areas of natural forest in Madagascar are destroyed to provide fuelwood and charcoal for cooking. |
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In addition to fuelwood, the agricultural sector also consumes electricity and butane. |
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Contemporary campaigns to increase the efficiency of fuelwood use began with efforts to improve charcoaling methods. |
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Poor women in rural communities are often particularly exposed because they rely on local water, fuelwood and agricultural land for their survival. |
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Forced evictions and the dispossession of land have a particularly severe impact on indigenous women, often leading to an increased workload since they must walk long distances to find alternate sources of water and fuelwood. |
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Women walked for miles for drinking water and fuelwood. |
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Various factors might contribute to the disposition towards this syndrome, including socio-economic dimensions, such as high dependence on fuelwood, and natural dimensions, such as aridity and poor soils. |
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They disgorge clean water into streams and reservoirs, dish up hundreds of edible plants and animals, dispense medicines, and stand ready to supply industrial and local needs for timber and fuelwood. |
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As Rwanda relies heavily on the use of fuelwood for providing electrical energy, tremendous pressure is being placed on the country's rapidlydepleting forests. |
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Existing farm woodlots brim with potential: for timber, fuelwood, specialty products, income in kind, as well as important environmental and wildlife benefits. |
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In addition, some of the country's largest sugar mills have contracts with the government to supply bioelectricity year-round using bagasse during sugarcane season and fuelwood derived from eucalyptus during the off-season. |
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Women and men often are forced to change their families' dietary practices when soil fertility has been drastically reduced due to overcropping, overgrazing, or erosion, or where there is a lack of fuelwood and potable water. |
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They are productive and resilient places that provide water, food, animal fodder, fuelwood, shelter, medicinal plants and globally valued raw materials such as gum arabic, esparto and cashmere. |
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Published quarterly in English and Khmer the Green Fire Bulletin is a forum for the exchange of experience and ideas about improved cookstove usage, fuelwood and related issues. |
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Examples of short rotation periods in the subtropics are seven years for leucaena for fuelwood, 10 years for eucalyptus, and 20 years for pine for pulpwood. |
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Visits to local markets can fill a basket with useful local materials such as matchboxes to represent households, small twigs wrapped with string for fuelwood, and plastic bottle caps to represent water points. |
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They chop trees for precious fuelwood and clear forests in search of land. |
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In recognition of the historical practice of cutting of fuelwood for personal use by authorized land holders, the provision for this practice would be negotiated on a case-by-case basis. |
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Foster multisector planning to manage fuelwood resources. |
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In hill states of India, besides fuelwood and timber, the local people use oak wood for making agricultural implements. |
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There is a continuing threat to these forests from exploitation for timber, fuelwood and charcoal. |
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