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Building resilience through Safe Access to Fuel and Energy (SAFE)

Moving towards a comprehensive SAFE Framework

Year of publication 2018

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 62

Author Jonas Bervoets, Olivier Dubois, Andreas Thulstrup

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Book (stand-alone)

ISBN 978-92-5-130678-9

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) Globally, nearly 3 billion people rely on traditional biomass, such as fuelwood, charcoal or animal waste, as sources of fuel for cooking and heating. The multi-sectoral challenges related to energy access make it crucial to view the issue in a broader frame. FAO’s work on Safe Access to Fuel and Energy (SAFE) adopts a holistic, multi-faceted approach which takes into account the mutually reinforcing linkages between energy and nutrition, disaster risks and climate change, conflict, health, gender, protection and livelihoods. This publication aims at providing a comprehensive framework for FAO to mainstream energy access for crisis-affected population in the resilience programming.

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