Experts at a final workshop of the Royal Society funded research project titled, “Improving Access To Clean And Modern Energy For Cooking While Reducing Land…
Experts at a final workshop of the Royal Society funded research project titled, “Improving Access To Clean And Modern Energy For Cooking While Reducing Land Degradation And Biodiversity Loss In Nigeria” have suggested a multifaceted approach that Nigeria must adopt to provide solution to the challenges brought about by deforestation.
The workshop held in Abuja yesterday was to avail the public about an international collaboration between Bayero University Kano (BUK) Nigeria, University of York and University College London (UCL) funded by the Royal Society which studies the effects of deforestation in the country.
In his opening address, the Project Lead in Nigeria who is also the Dean, Faculty of Earth and Environmental Sciences, BUK, Professor Aliyu Barau, said they had been working on the field-based and desk-based aspects of the study over the last two years and had made significant progress.
He said the project highlights the direct and complicated relations between overdependence on fuelwood for cooking and land degradation, biodiversity loss, environmental quality, and human health.
