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Promoting diverse fuelwood production systems in Papua New Guinea

Project ID:
FST/2006/088
Collaborating Countries:
Papua New Guinea
Project Locations
Commissioned Organisation:
University of Adelaide, Australia
Project Leader
Dr Ian Nuberg
Phone: 08 83037729
Fax: 08 83037979
Email: ian.nuberg@adelaide.edu.au
Collaborating Institutions:
  • Ensis, Australia
  • Papua New Guinea Forest Research Institute, Papua New Guinea
  • Foundation for People and Community Development Inc., Papua New Guinea
  • W.R. Carpenter & Co. Estates Ltd, Papua New Guinea
  • People's Action for Rural Development, Papua New Guinea
  • HOPE worldwide, Papua New Guinea
Project Budget:
$923,079
Project Duration:
01/01/2008 - 31/12/2011
ACIAR Research Program Manager
Dr Russell Haines
Project Overview

Fuelwood is a crucial, but undeveloped, component of the domestic economy of PNG. Fuelwood plantations could directly enhance smallholder income and provide a pathway for rehabilitating grasslands. The main aim of this project is to establish a national fuelwood economy based on woodlots and agroforestry systems. Underpinning objectives are to describe and quantify the national fuelwood market, to establish in both lowland peri-urban and highland rural regions a range of fuelwood production systems as pilot projects, and to establish a community of practice which will ensure the wider adoption and long-term development of fuelwood production. Such a system will enable creation of business opportunities to supply a growing fuelwood market while at the same time providing opportunities to produce other products including seedlings, poles and fodder.