 Heating your home, cooking nutritious food, providing safe drinking water for your family. Three basic needs in life that over 60% of people living in sub-Saharan Africa must meet by burning wood fuel. African cities are expanding rapidly as people move from the countryside in search of opportunities. This means an ever-growing energy demand from urban dwellers, especially in the form of charcoal. When unchecked, harvesting of wood fuel can have negative consequences on forests and woodlands leading to deforestation, forest degradation, and diminishing the ecosystem services they provide to communities. This is why C4Ecraft, supported by the European Union, has identified high-priority areas across sub-Saharan Africa with a view to develop more sustainable wood fuel value chains. By developing evidence-based options and continuing to learn from their outcomes, C4Ecraft aims to produce useful guidance to governments and other stakeholders on the solutions and conditions to develop sustainable wood fuel value chains in sub-Saharan Africa.