Commercial charcoal production in the ibarapa district of southwestern nigeria: Forestry dividends and welfare implications

International Quarterly of Community Health Education

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 369-385

  Salami, Kabiru ^a   Brieger, William ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN   (Nigeria)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARCOAL;

ARTICLE; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; EMPLOYMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FORESTRY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; NIGERIA; PUBLIC RELATIONS; SOCIAL WELFARE;

CHARCOAL; COMMERCE; COMMUNITY-INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; EMPLOYMENT; FORESTRY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMANS; NIGERIA; SOCIAL WELFARE;

EID: 84855512793     PISSN: 0272684X     EISSN: 15413519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2190/IQ.31.4.e     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. T. H. Mwampamba, Has the Woodfuel Crisis Returned? Urban Charcoal Consumption in Tanzania and Its Implications to Present and Future Forest Availability, Energy Policy, 35, pp. 4221-4234, 2007. (Pubitemid 46760491)
2. S. K. Adeyoju, Our Forests and Our Welfare, Inaugural lecture of the University of Ibadan, Ibadan University Press, Nigeria, pp. 1-45, 1981.
3. D. W. Ko, A. D. Sparrow, and P. J. Weisberg, Land-Use Legacy of Historical Tree Harvesting for Charcoal Production in a Semi-Arid Woodland, Forest Ecology and Management, 261, pp. 1283-1292, 2011.
4. K. Boahene, The Challenge of Deforestation in Tropical Africa: Reflections on Its Principal Causes, Consequences and Solutions, Land Degradation and Development, 9, pp. 247-258, 1998. (Pubitemid 28508008)
5. M. T. Daly, M. O. Filani, and P. Richards, with G. Murdoch and J. Ojo-Atere, The Ibarapa Planning Atlas, Technical Report No. 1, Department of Geography, University of Ibadan, Nigeria, 1981.
6. Oyo State, About Oyo State: Official Website of the Oyo State Government. Retrieved June 23, 2009, from: http://oyostate.gov.ng/about-oyo/brief-overview
7. I. Balogun, Harvesting of Non-Wood Forest Products in the Tropics-Nigeria as a Case Study. FAO Corporate Document Repository. Undated. Retrieved June 23, 2009, from: http://www.fao.org/DOCREP/005/Y4496E/Y4496E45.htm
8. M. Ezzati and D. M. Kammen, The Health Impacts of Exposure to Indoor Air Pollution from Solid Fuels in Developing Countries: Knowledge, Gaps, and Data Needs, Environmental Health Perspectives, 110:11, pp. 1057-1068, 2002. (Pubitemid 35363729)
9. S. Amous, The Role of Wood Energy in Africa, in Wood Energy Today for Tomorrow (WETT) Regional Studies, S. I. Rivero and R. Flood (eds.), APEX-ebbd, Tunis, Tunisia, 2005. Retrieved from: http://www.fao.org/documents/show-cdr.asp? url-file=/docrep/x2740e/x2740e00.htm
10. J. L. da Costa, A. Navarro, J. B. Neves, and M. Martin, Household Wood and Charcoal Smoke Increases Risk of Otitis Media in Childhood in Maputo, International Journal of Epidemiology, 33:3, pp. 573-578, Epub. 2004. (Pubitemid 38997233)
11. Harvard School of Public Health (HSPS), Study Points to Cleaner Charcoal and Forest Management as Best Strategy in Africa to Reduce Greenhouse Gases and Save Lives. Retrieved 2005 from: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/press/releases/ press03312005.html
12. B. D. Okello, T. G. O'Connor, and T. P. Young, Growth, Biomass Estimates and Charcoal Production of Acacia Drepanolobium in Laikipia, Kenya, Forest Ecology and Management, 142, pp. 143-153, 2001 (Pubitemid 32165833)
13. AFP, Nigeria's Forests to Disappear by 2020. Published: Thursday, March 27, 2008 http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Nigeria-s-forests-to-disappear-by-2-032
14. D. Samake, Africa and the Environment, Desertification and the Phenomenon of Drought, Deforestation and Reforestation, Family Development, 64, pp, 15-24, 1993.
15. J. Davidson, Women's Relationship with the Environment, Focus Gender, 1:1, pp. 5-10, 1993.
16. B. Bedri and S. Osama, Environmental Crisis and Its Impact on Women: The Case of the Sudan, Women, 2000:5, pp. 4-7, 2000.
17. E. S. Muneer and W. M. Mohamed (eds.), Adoption of Biomass Improved Cookstoves in a Patriarchal Society: An Example from Sudan, Science and Total Environment, 307:1-3, pp. 259-266, 2003.
18. R. Bailis, M. Ezzati, and D. M. Kammen, Greenhouse Gas Implications of Household Energy Technology in Kenya, Environmental Science and Technology, 37:10, pp. 2051-2059, 2003. (Pubitemid 36593023)
19. M. Lalo, Jos' Flourishing Charcoal Business, The Daily Trust, September 16, 2008. Distributed by AllAfrica Global Media (allAfrica.com). Retrieved June 23, 2009, from: http://allafrica.com/stories/200809160457.html
20. T. Ogundare, Charcoal Retailership, Not Too Lucrative, The Daily Champion, December 10, 2007. Retrieved June 23, 2009, from: http://allafrica. com/stories/200712100859.html
21. K. K. Salami, Household Social Reproductive Roles and Production of Child Health in Igbo-Ora, Southwestern Nigeria, an unpublished Ph.D. thesis in the Department of Sociology, University of Ibadan, Ibadan Nigeria, 2008
22. W. J. Watson and A. K. Wareham, West African Secondary School Atlas, Lagos, Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd., 1963.
23. O. Idowu and J. I. Guyer, Commercialization and the Harvest Work of Women in Ibarapa, Oyo State, Nigeria, Women's Research and Documentation Centre, Occasional Paper No. 2, Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria, 1991.
24. R. H. Hycner, Some Guidelines for the Phenomenological Analysis of Interview Data, Human Studies, 8, pp. 279-303, 1985.
25. B. Oyadoke, W. R. Brieger, A. Adesope, and K. K. Salami, Migrant Farm Workers in Southwestern Nigeria: Implications for HIV Transmission, International Quarterly of Community Health Education, 22:4, pp. 249-268, 2003-2004.
26. L. C. Zulu, The Forbidden Fuel: Charcoal, Urban Woodfuel Demand and Supply Dynamics, Community Forest Management and Woodfuel Policy in Malawi, Energy Policy, 38, pp. 3717-3730, 2010.
27. R. Bailis, M. Ezzati, and D. M Kammen, Mortality and Greenhouse Gas Impacts of Biomass and Petroleum Energy Futures in Africa, Science, 308, pp. 98-103, 2005. Retrieved from: www.sciencemag.org (Pubitemid 40471006)
28. UN, World Population Prospects: The 2002 Revision, Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the UN Secretariat. Retrieved 2004 from: www.un.org/popin/data.html
29. U. D. Chima, The Devastating Flames of Abacha Coal-Pots and the People's Forests, World Rainforest Movement (WRM) Bulletin No. 106, May 2006. Retrieved 2006 from: http://www.wrm.org.uy/bulletin/106/Nigeria.html
30. J. I. Guyer, Kos'ona Miran ("No other way"): Necessity and Invention in Mechanized Farming, in Money Struggles and City Life: Devaluation in Ibadan and Other Urban Centers in Southern Nigeria 1986-1996, J. I. Guyer, D. LaRay, and A. Adigun (eds.), BookBuilders, Ibadan, in association with Centre for Social Science Research and Development, Lagos, pp. 115-131, 2003.
31. S. Berry, No Condition is Permanent: The Social Dynamics of Agrarian Change in sub-Saharan Africa, University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, 1993.
32. S. Berry, Coping with Confusion: African Farmers' Responses to Economic Instability in the 1970s and 1980s, Working Papers in African Studies, No. 141, African Studies Center, Boston University, Boston, 1989.
33. J. I. Guyer, Marginal Gains Monetary Transactions in Atlantic Africa, The University of Chicago Press, 2004.
34. J. Ensminger, Making a Market: The Institutional Transformation of an African Society, Cambridge University Press, New York, 1996.
35. E. J. Luoga, E. T. F. Witkowski, and K. Bakwill, Economics of Charcoal Production in Miombo Woodlands of Eastern Tanzania: Some Hidden Costs Associated with Commercialization of the Resources, Ecological Economics 35, pp. 243-257, 2000.
36. J. I. Guyer, The Organizational Plan of Traditional Farming: Idere, Western Nigeria, University Micro-Films, Ann Arbor, 1972,
37. J. Horsman, Production Forestry in the Zaria Area, Savanna, 4:1, pp. 70-74, 1975.
38. J. I. Guyer, An African Niche Economy: Farming to Feed Ibadan 1968-88, International African Library, Edinburgh University Press, 1997.
39. B. Bramalingam, How Do You Solve a Problem Like Malaria? Retrieved 2011 from: http://aidontheedge.info/2011/01/27/how-do-you-solve-a-problem-like- malaria/