Fuelwood Scarcity, Poverty and Women: Some perspectives

Waris, Varinder Singh; Antahal, Prakash C.

doi:10.9790/0837-19822133

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“…In India, in particular, but also in most cases, women in rural areas are responsible for household work, harvesting and carrying fodder cattle and farming. Consequently, extreme climatic events exacerbate women's workload, especially in fuel wood collection and water fetching, affecting them socially, physically and economically (Waris & Antahal, 2014). More specifically, India's arid regions are prone to chronic water shortages, thus climate change decreases the clean water's availability and so women and young girls need to walk longer, rough and unsafe distances, in search of clean and sufficient water (Mitchell et al, 2007).…”

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confidence: 99%

Gender and Climate Change: Challenges and Opportunities

Senja¹

2021

HAPScPBS

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Women are more vulnerable than men to climate change. According to the literature, this vulnerability is the result of pre-existing gender inequalities, social marginalization, less access to education and knowledge, poverty, insecure land rights, heavy reliance on agriculture and lack of mobility. This paper focuses on rural women's vulnerability to climate change, through three case studies, and also on the empowerment and the involvement of them in the policy-making processes in order to combat the climate crisis. Women should participate and contribute with their knowledge and their life experience, which is a result of particular strengths, perspectives and priorities. The empowerment of these women is vital for successfully combating the impacts of climate change and for the mitigation and adaptation efforts to thrive.

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Section: Case Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Gender and Climate Change: Challenges and Opportunities

Senja¹

2021

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“…Empirical studies show that fuel wood shortage affects food consumption patterns. This leads to fewer meals being cooked, cooking of foods that require less fuel, substitution of raw and colds dishes, increased time and effort to collect or purchase firewood, and consumption of less nutritious food [74,[90][91][92]. Many families also opt to buy food from street food vendors because of their life style [53], e.g., to reduce fuel cost, despite the negative health risks and also most street food is not balanced [93,94].…”

Section: Energy Poverty and Calorific Intakementioning

confidence: 99%

Energy Poverty and Its Implication on Standard of Living in Kirinyaga, Kenya

Njiru¹,

Letema

2018

Journal of Energy

128

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Energy poverty affects physical health, well-being, and ability to prosper. A large proportion of Kenyan population lack access to electricity because they are located far from the national grid where it is uneconomical to extend electricity. This paper assesses energy poverty situation in Kirinyaga and reviews its implication on standard of living. Kirinyaga is a rural county with the main economic activity being agriculture and a few agroprocessing factories. Most rural households in Kirinyaga rely on fuel wood to meet their basic energy requirements and lack access to electricity. Tea factories and educational institutions rely on fuel wood to minimize cost of electricity. Kirinyaga residents, therefore, experience energy poverty as indicated by low electricity access and reliance on traditional cooking fuels. Energy poverty in Kirinyaga has negative impact on indicators of standards of living, calorific intake, life expectancy, and literacy levels.

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“…Fuelwood has been an important source of domestic energy to fulfill household needs for cooking and heating, particularly in rural areas since prehistorical times (Bunafsha et al 2014;Waris and Antahal 2014). About 2.5 to 3 billion people worldwide still depend on woody biomass as a source of fuel (UNEP 2019; Stoner et al 2021;Scheid et al 2019).…”

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“…According to Masera et al (2015), about 40% of the global population depends on traditional bioenergy, accounting for 9% of global energy use and 55% of the global wood harvest. Waris and Antahal (2014) added that out of 2.7 billion people in developing countries who depend on wood for fuel, 82% live in rural areas. In Papua Indonesia, a total of 5,116 families still use fuelwood for household cooking activities.…”

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Tree species used for fuelwood by remote indigenous communities in West Papua, Indonesia: Implication of empowerment program

INDOW¹,

MATURBONGS²,

PRABAWARDANI³

et al. 2022

Biodiversitas

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Abstract. Indow L, Maturbongs RA, Prabawardani S, Hendri. 2022. Tree species used for fuelwood by remote indigenous communities in West Papua, Indonesia: Implication of empowerment program. Biodiversitas 23: 3507-3512. Fuelwood still contributes as an essential energy source for domestic uses especially in rural communities including in West Papua, Indonesia. While several development programs are implemented to enhance the life quality of rural indigenous communities, their implication for fuelwood use is not clear. This study aimed to identify fuelwood tree species used by communities in three villages in West Papua and to, assess its availability prior to the empowerment program and compare it to nowadays after the program based on the community's perspective. A descriptive method with qualitative and quantitative data components was used in this study. Data were collected at predetermined villages representing three ecological zones (i.e., Sakumi, Jamboi and Watitindau) using purposive sampling and semi-structured interviews with community representatives, tribal chiefs and leaders. The results showed that there were 5-7 plant species used as fuelwood, namely Piper aduncum, Casuarina equisetifolia, Rhizophora sp., Gliricidia sepium, Intsia bijuga, Pometia pinnata, Dodonaea viscosa, Homalium foetidum, Syzygium sp. and Muntingia calabura. These all-wood species have a good flame. Some high commercial tree species such as I. bijuga, P. pinnata and H. foetidum are only used in their branches and twigs for firewood. The local communities still use firewood despite the empowerment program since alternative fuel sources are not available or lacking, while the availability of firewood is plentiful. Nonetheless, in the long run, the continuous and extensive use of firewood will put pressure on the remaining trees and forest. Therefore, we recommend sustainably using firewood and replanting several species frequently used as firewood.

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Fuelwood Scarcity, Poverty and Women: Some perspectives

Cited by 12 publications

References 5 publications

Gender and Climate Change: Challenges and Opportunities

Gender and Climate Change: Challenges and Opportunities

Energy Poverty and Its Implication on Standard of Living in Kirinyaga, Kenya

Tree species used for fuelwood by remote indigenous communities in West Papua, Indonesia: Implication of empowerment program

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