Charcoal use in Zambia’s Miombo: balancing livelihoods and forest preservation

Kazungu, Moses; Zhunusova, Eliza; Yang, Anastasia, Lucy; Kabwe, Gillian; Gumbo, Davison, J.; Günter, Sven

doi:10.3220/PB1586850994000

Monograph 2020 Open Access

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Charcoal use in Zambia’s Miombo: balancing livelihoods and forest preservation

Kazungu, Moses ; Zhunusova, Eliza ; Yang, Anastasia Lucy ; Kabwe, Gillian; Gumbo, Davison J.; Günter, Sven

Charcoal making as double-edged sword: important source for cash income in the Miombo dry forests but at cost of forest degradation.• Landscapes with protected areas can be counterproductive: higher volumes of charcoal produced and firewood extracted from landscapes with protected forest areas compared to landscapes with non-protected forest areas.