Unlike Game Reserves where consumptive wildlife tourism is generating significant revenue from hunting tourists, the…
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One of the tricky questions in addressing drivers of forest degradation in Tanzania is how to deal with growing fuelwood demands especially in local settings where 100% of the population depends on firewood and charcoal for cooking. To address this challenge, EAMCEF provided grants to a local NGO to implement a woman-empowerment project that would cut down firewood consumption but with multiple benefits to the women group.
In Mbakweni Village
– one of the villages bordering Chome Forest Nature Reserve, the project trained a women group – called Mkombozi to construct improved cook stoves that would not only replace the traditional three-stones stove, but also reduce by 50% the amount of firewood consumption and reduce health risks associated with smoke. To date, the group has trained other women and constructed 406 improved stoves in different households.