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| Title: | Energy: Power to Some People |
| Authors: | O'Keefe, Phil Soussan, John |
| Year: | 1991 |
| Periodical: | Review of African Political Economy |
| Volume: | 18 |
| Issue: | 51 |
| Pages: | 107-114 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic terms: | Subsaharan Africa Kenya Africa |
| Subjects: | energy policy fuelwood Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Development and Technology |
| External link: | https://doi.org/10.1080/03056249108703912 |
| Abstract: | The 1979 oil crisis focused attention on energy planning, and in various African countries energy ministries were established. In Kenya, the newly formed Ministry of Energy commissioned an energy overview, which showed the dominance of wood energy in Kenya. Energy accounts of individual SADCC countries also showed this dominance. In Kenya, the Kenyan Woodfuel Development Programme (KWDP) was formulated and new agroforestry packages were produced. Parallel to the KWDP work, there was substantial work on forestry in SADCC, again through energy ministries. The SADCC Fuelwood Study produced a substantial critique of existing household energy project intervention. Attention was paid to the issues of stoves, fuel switching in urban households, from wood and charcoal to kerosene and gas, and the multiple use of resources. Also, an attempt was made to estimate woody biomass supplies in the SADCC region. The overall picture was one of wood surplus. The work on supply estimates south of the Sahara produced a similar picture. The institutional players changed. This manifested itself in the emergence of local NGOs in the 1980s, a new emphasis on multilateral organizations, and the re-emergence of the World Bank as a central player in the energy debate. Deforestation, an energy management issue for poor people, has disappeared from the World Bank agenda. Once again, Africa's energy agenda is being written from outside. Bibliogr. |
