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Kenya brought about a ban on logging back in Feb 2018 in what seemed like a head-on collision between environmentalists and business people and local forest communities that were direct dependents of this value chain.
While the argument was on maintaining and increasing the country’s tree cover to 10% by 2022, mature forests have now been left to rot away and some even getting chewed up by locusts which have been around since the end of 2019, leading to lost revenue for businesses and associated local communities.
The question therefore stands,
Has Kenya’s ban on logging been effective?
Today Dr Francis Ochieng, a Lecturer at the Institute of Energy and Environmental Technology of Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) joins us to explore outcomes and next steps since the logging ban was put in place.
Highlights of the discussion touch on:
* The latest stats around logging in Kenya* Reasons and repercussions of the ban * What stakeholders are doing to adjust, whether Government action, private sector innovations or a shift in clean cooking technologies at home
Charcoal production can be sustainable, if people approached it from the point of green charcoal value chain i.e. forests grown specifically for charcoal production, embedded with better conversion technologies and improved cook stoves. Much has been done about the cooking technologies, but not much on sustainable charcoal production. Dr. Francis Xavier Ochieng
Resources
* [RESEARCH REPORT] How Kenya can transform the charcoal sector and create new opportunities for low-carbon rural development * [LAWS] Kenya Forest Conservation and Management Act* [REGULATIONS] The Forests (Charcoal) Regulations, Kenya 2009* [REGULATIONS] Forests (Harvesting) Rules, 2009 (Cap. 385)
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Kenya brought about a ban on logging back in Feb 2018 in what seemed like a head-on collision between environmentalists and business people and local forest communities that were direct dependents of this value chain.
While the argument was on maintaining and increasing the country’s tree cover to 10% by 2022, mature forests have now been left to rot away and some even getting chewed up by locusts which have been around since the end of 2019, leading to lost revenue for businesses and associated local communities.
The question therefore stands,
Has Kenya’s ban on logging been effective?
Today Dr Francis Ochieng, a Lecturer at the Institute of Energy and Environmental Technology of Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) joins us to explore outcomes and next steps since the logging ban was put in place.
Highlights of the discussion touch on:
* The latest stats around logging in Kenya* Reasons and repercussions of the ban * What stakeholders are doing to adjust, whether Government action, private sector innovations or a shift in clean cooking technologies at home
Charcoal production can be sustainable, if people approached it from the point of green charcoal value chain i.e. forests grown specifically for charcoal production, embedded with better conversion technologies and improved cook stoves. Much has been done about the cooking technologies, but not much on sustainable charcoal production. Dr. Francis Xavier Ochieng
Resources
* [RESEARCH REPORT] How Kenya can transform the charcoal sector and create new opportunities for low-carbon rural development * [LAWS] Kenya Forest Conservation and Management Act* [REGULATIONS] The Forests (Charcoal) Regulations, Kenya 2009* [REGULATIONS] Forests (Harvesting) Rules, 2009 (Cap. 385)
Contact