Charcoal - the reality: A study of charcoal consumption, trade and production in Malawi

Reports/papers (non-specific)
, 60 pages
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13544IIED.pdf
Language:
English
Published: January 2007
Small and Medium Forest Enterprise
ISBN: 9781843696780
Product code:13544IIED

As this study documents, the charcoal industry is one of the largest in Malawi; if the product was exported, the annual foreign exchange income to the country would fall somewhere between that of tea and sugar. Charcoal is therefore a product with a very large domestic market, yet whose production is treated variously as either non-existent or illegal. The question that we hope this report stimulates as the core of a lively debate among government officials, parliamentarians, interested parties and the general public is simple: "How do we want to produce this product to meet market demand in a better manner?"

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, ., , ., , . and , . (2007). Charcoal - the reality: A study of charcoal consumption, trade and production in Malawi. .
Available at https://www.iied.org/13544iied