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Author and Title	Brouwer, Inge D., "When Households Run out of Fuel: Responses of Rural Women in Malawi to Decreasing Fuelwood Availability"
Article in	Article in ENERGIA News, Volume 2 Issue 2, May 1998, pp. 9-10
Available online at	http://www.energia.org
End use	Household energy; transport
Energy technology
Issue	Reducing women's workload; women's needs
Level	Research; case study (Malawi)
Description	Due to increasing land clearance for agriculture and to over-grazing of land by livestock, the fuelwood supplies have rapidly depleted. The high prices of alternative energy sources and their uncertain supply retard the transition from fuelwood to these higher quality energy sources. A study into the consequences of fuelwood scarcity was carried out in Malawi. The results of the study shows that, under circumstances that can be considered as moderate in terms of fuelwood scarcity, decreasing fuelwood availability affects women's time and energy. However, the impact is highly dependent on factors emerging from problems other than fuelwood availability, such as food availability, labour availability and labour constraints.

This bibliography item provided with financial support of the Department for International Development of the UK Government (DFID) and ENERGIA International Network on Gender and Sustainable Energy