Fuelwood Source Substitution and Shadow Prices in Western Kenya
| dc.creator | Murphy, David M. A. | |
| dc.creator | Berazneva, Julia | |
| dc.creator | Lee, David R. | |
| dc.date | 2017-04-01T16:39:09Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-09T09:15:15Z | |
| dc.description | Deforestation in Sub-Saharan Africa remains a substantial problem. Increasing scarcity of fuelwood can be significant burden to households, as fuelwood is a key component of the energy profile of a rural Sub-Saharan household. However, households do not only collect their fuelwood from off-farm, but also produce it on-farm and purchase it from the market. This paper studies substitution between fuelwood sources for rural Kenyan households. Conducting analysis using shadow prices for household fuelwood in a non-separable theoretical framework, we find that strict gender divisions in household labor contribute to a lack of substitution between fuelwood sources. Because fuelwood production on the farm is more sustainable than off-farm collection, gender divisions inhibit reforestation efforts in this area. This paper finds a direct linkage between women and environmental well-being, and concludes that reforestation efforts in SSA will likely be ineffective until labor substitution between genders increase. | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.22004/ag.econ.205084 | |
| dc.identifier | https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/205084/files/Fuelwood_AgEconV_5_22_15.pdf | |
| dc.identifier | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/205084 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/607180 | |
| dc.language | eng | |
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| dc.source | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/205084 | |
| dc.title | Fuelwood Source Substitution and Shadow Prices in Western Kenya | |
| dc.type | Text |