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A Review of Studies Related to Charcoal Production, Consumption, and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Tanzania

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Production and consumption of charcoal play a significant role in enhancing the livelihoods of people in Tanzania but may also lead to adverse environmental impacts. In this chapter, a review is presented of studies of charcoal production and consumption in Tanzania, and promising new research tasks are identified. Many interesting and valuable studies have been done, and it is clearly seen how important charcoal consumption and production are in a social, ecological, and economic perspectives. However, many of the reviewed studies lack clear hypotheses and specifications of behavior theories to be used for developing realistic and testable hypotheses. More research is needed on factors effecting charcoal demand – like changes in prices, income, and policies – and for that, using national household surveys is recommended. More research is needed also about tree regeneration (time and volumes) in miombo woodlands; how various forms of land ownerships influence miombo woodlands management; the possibilities and preferability in Tanzania of establishing forest plantations for producing charcoal; total and distributional impacts of policies; GHG impacts of charcoal production and consumption; and the development of bio-economic models which make possible consistent analyses of ex ante defined interesting changes from the present economic and policy situation.

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  1. Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Faculty of Environmental Science and Nature Management (MINA), Department of Ecology and Natural Resources Management (INA), Ås, Norway

    Greyson Zabron Nyamoga & Birger Solberg

  2. Sokoine University of Agriculture – SUA, College of Forestry, Wildlife and Tourism, Department of Forest and Environmental Economics, Morogoro, Tanzania

    Greyson Zabron Nyamoga

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  2. Department of Agricultural Production, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

    Samuel Kyamanywa

  3. Department of Environmental Science, Soil Science Building, Norwegian University of Life Science, Ås, Norway

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Nyamoga, G.Z., Solberg, B. (2019). A Review of Studies Related to Charcoal Production, Consumption, and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Tanzania. In: Bamutaze, Y., Kyamanywa, S., Singh, B., Nabanoga, G., Lal, R. (eds) Agriculture and Ecosystem Resilience in Sub Saharan Africa. Climate Change Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12974-3_17

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