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Eucalyptus plantations in Brazil’s Alto Jequitinhonha Valley, grown to make charcoal ... plantations of eucalyptus trees, which in turn were cut down to produce charcoal. Acesita was privatized ...

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Mustafa Gerima wants local communities to stop chopping down the trees to make charcoal - which they say is more profitable than the oil, also used in cooking, that is extracted from its fruit. He ...

Mustafa Gerima wants local communities to stop chopping down the trees to make charcoal - which they say is more profitable than the oil, also used in cooking, that is extracted from its fruit.

But he felled the tree himself. How else, he asks, is he to pay school fees for his children? To address the downsides of the charcoal trade, governments oscillate between trying to make it legal ...

The fast-growing eucalyptus trees, which store carbon in their lignin, should make this possible. However, environmentalists such as Giselda Durigan from the São Paulo State Environmental ...