Nothing gets wasted

cg.contributor.affiliationTechnical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperationen
cg.howPublishedFormally Publisheden
cg.identifier.urlhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/99588en
cg.issn1011-0054en
cg.journalSporeen
cg.number86en
cg.placeWageningen, The Netherlandsen
cg.subject.ctaNATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENTen
cg.subject.ctaENVIRONMENTen
dc.contributor.authorTechnical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperationen
dc.date.accessioned2014-10-16T09:07:36Zen
dc.date.available2014-10-16T09:07:36Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/46733
dc.titleNothing gets wasteden
dcterms.abstractA new fuel for cooking and heating, which at FCFA 50/kg is cheaper than firewood, is coming onto the market in Burkina Faso. Briquettes of compressed agricultural waste (straw and cotton stems) are shaped into cylinders 7cm in diameter; they are...en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.bibliographicCitationCTA. 2000. Nothing gets wasted. Spore 86. CTA, Wageningen, The Netherlands.en
dcterms.descriptionA new fuel for cooking and heating, which at FCFA 50/kg is cheaper than firewood, is coming onto the market in Burkina Faso. Briquettes of compressed agricultural waste (straw and cotton stems) are shaped into cylinders 7cm in diameter; they are easier to cut than wood, but they provide same amounts of heat. The new product was developed to ease the pressure on the nation s woodlands (more than 5 million tonnes of wood are used annually as fuelwood, the equivalent of 140,000 hectares of forest). A pilot project has been started at a plant in Boromo (150 km west of Ouagadougou) with finance from UNDP and Denmark. In operation since May 1999, its annual production (currently 200 t) could rise to 2,000 or 4, 000 tonnes of briquettes. Eric Lacasse, UNDP, B P 575 Ouagadougou 01, Burkina Faso. Fax: + 226 31 04 70 Email: eric.lacasse@undp.orgen
dcterms.isPartOfSporeen
dcterms.issued2000
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.publisherTechnical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperationen
dcterms.typeNews Item

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