TY - BOOK AU - Leach, Gerald TI - Woodfuels and farm trees SN - 91-88116- U1 - 333.953 PY - 1990/// CY - Stockholm PB - Stockholm Environment Institute KW - Madera como Combustible KW - Bosques KW - Conservación de la Energía KW - Eficiencia Energética N1 - 05698; The heavy use of biomass fuels in the third world is often implicated as a major cause of deforestation and consequent greenhouse gas emissions. Proposed solutions include the promotion of more efficient wood - burning stoves, substitution by non - wood fuels, and fast - growing energy woodlots. This paper starts by questioning these widely - held assumptions. It then considers the last of these proposed options in the form of tree - growing by farmers as a greenhouse mitigation strategy ER -