The Blantyre District Forestry Office (DFO) has attributed the rise in illegal charcoal production and selling to high poverty levels among Malawians. Malawi charcoal sellers Malawi is climbing up in ...

More than three billion people globally depend on solid fuels, often using inefficient technologies that pose health risks to users. In Africa, firewood and charcoal provide energy for over half of ...

To get to the most sustainable formula on charcoal production, 210 charcoalmen in Ambaro Bay (northwestern Madagascar) followed a 2-weeks training organized by GIZ-Eco and WWF. To get to the most ...

President Museveni has issued an executive directive banning the cutting of trees for charcoal. This came as a result of the increasing complaints, stemming from a section of leaders in Acholi ...

2 years of drought and late arrival of the rainy season in south western Madagascar have forced hundreds of farmers into charcoal producing which is devastating forests, according to WWF field staff ...

Henry Neufeldt will present at the session on Land-based mitigation: agriculture, forests, bioenergy on Day 2. The outcome document of Open Working Group of the Sustainable Development Goals includes ...

Kenya’s Sh30 billion charcoal industry is finally getting the attention it deserves, after decades of being overlooked by authorities. The industry employs more than 200,000 people in production alone ...

Charcoal production and usage is said to form the bulk of Ghana’s energy supply and consumption with the product contributing more than 60 per cent to the energy sector. Charcoal is also said to be ...

Two men dropped their tools and fled on foot from an approaching motorbike. They abandoned their own motorcycle, yellow jugs of water, two hoes, and several charred lumps of wood. Nearby, wisps of ...