1. Several hundred hectares of natural (“miombo”) woodlands were cleared in a wood-energy project financed by the World Bank, to provide wood to nearby tobacco farms and urban users in southern Malawi.
Several hundred hectares of natural (“miombo”) woodlands were cleared in a wood-energy project financed by the World Bank, to provide wood to nearby tobacco farms and urban users in southern Malawi. Unfavourable prices at the time resulted in the burning of large areas of tree cover. The area is an environmentally critical watershed zone of the east African Rift Valley, and is now a government-owned plantation forested with fast-growing exotic species, such as eucalyptus.
Helmut J Geist Tob Control 1999;8:18-28
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