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Global Increase in the Consumption of Lignocellulosic Biomass as Energy Source: Necessity for Sustained Optimisation of Agroforestry Technologies
Table 5
Comparison between the world and developing countries’ 2004 total production, trade, and consumption of wood fuel.
| Region | | Total wood fuel volume | | | | (1000 m3) | | | Production | Imports | Exports | Consumption |
| Africa | 546062 | 1 | 4 | 546059 | Asia | 774647 | 317 | 11 | 774953 | Latin America and the Caribbean | 236602 | 4 | 1 | 236605 |
| Developing Countries’ total | 1557311 | 322 | 16 | 1557617 | World’s total | 1766925 | 3221 | 3911 | 1766278 | % of World’s total | 88.14 | 10 | 0.41 | 88.19 |
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Source: adapted from FAO [8].
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