ABSTRACT
The first recommendation is for autonomous village regulation and revenue gathering for woodfuel harvesting. One problem with across the board policy recommendations is that fuelwood problems, both in supply and in market inconsistencies, tend to be local, so that national policies can be helpful in some towns and detrimental in others. The structure of the woodfuel market system, including the numbers of participants at each level, and the length of the market chain make it difficult in most cases to permit monopolistic practices by any single actor. The potential excess profits are seemingly eaten up by high transport costs and higher operating costs, costs which the wholesalers seem unable to recover in the bag price of the fuel. The high margins enjoyed by wholesalers in the wet season makes it unlikely that they would be interested in storing fuel from the dry season to the wet season.
