Energy Resources (Case Study-1)

The primary use of wood fuel is cooking. As wood become scares, so cooking habits may change, sometimes to the detriment of nutrition. Fuel scarcity also inhibits the introduction of new nutritious foods such as Soya beans, due to the extra cooking time required. The cost of such dietary changes, and the foregone benefits from the inability to introduce new foods, is obviously complex to estimate and no empirical work appears to be available. But it is a positive cost, which must be debited to resource mismanagement. Apart from collection time and nutrition effects, fuel wood scarcity has a third impact.