SPECIAL FEATURES
• Bushmeat
• Bushmeat – a resource at risk
• The sustainable use of wild species
for meat
• Bushmeat Crisis Task Force
• Hunting in the Taï region, Côte
d’Ivoire
• The Jane Goodall Institute
• Trade in bushmeat
• Biometrics
• Design of techniques to assess
non-wood forest products in ACP
African countries (EC-FAO project,
component 4)
• Resource assessment of non-wood
forest products. Experience and
biometric principles – new
publication in FAO’s NWFP series
NEWS AND NOTES
• Anticonvulsant activity of Indian herb
• Asociación para la conservación de
la cuenca amazónica
• Ayurveda
• Bioprospecting or biopiracy?
• Biopirates raid trees
• From the jungle to the clinic
• Brazil sees promise in jungle
plants, but tribes see peril
• Ecoport – access portal to ecology
knowledge for natural resource
managers
• Equator Initiative seeks nominations
for tropical biodiversity awards
• FAOTERM
• Field courses in rain forest and
marine ecology
• Fingerprinting bamboo
• Fruits for the future
• Journals and newsletters
• Conservation and Society
• Forest certification newsletter
• Forest Integrity Network (FIN)
newsletter
• Journal of Tropical Medicinal Plants
• Natural Product Radiance
• Revista Forestal Centroamericana
• Voices from the Forest
• International Doctoral Program for
Development Studies
• International Year of Mountains
• Los bosques pueden contribuir al
alivio de la pobreza
• New Forests Project
• Plant Resources of South-East Asia
(PROSEA)
• Plant Resources of Tropical Africa
(PROTA)
• Potential oilseed trees of Africa
• Potential role of non-timber forest
products in the coping strategies of
rural HIV/AIDS-affected households
in sub-Saharan Africa
• Scientific Boards Society of Research Institute of Forests & Rangelands
• Sustainable for Whom?
• Training programme on leadership and adaptive management in forest environments
• TREES international training courses
• Using local knowledge in NWFP inventory
PRODUCTS AND MARKETS
• Agarwood
• Bamboo charcoal and vinegar
• Edible insects
• Honey
• Mushrooms
• Rattan
COUNTRY COMPASS
• Bangladesh
• Brazil
• Cameroon
• Canada
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• Jordan
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• Lao People's Democratic Republic
• Lebanon
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• Morocco
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• Nigeria
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• Russian Federation
• Somalia
• South Africa
• Thailand
• Turkey
• Uganda
• United Kingdom
• United Republic of Tanzania
• Viet Nam
• Zimbabwe
ECONOOK
• Danish ecolabelling campaign forges ahead
• Se creó la primera área de conservación privada
• Gorilla-based tourism: a realistic source of community income in Cameroon?
• Kumrose Community Forest, Nepal
• Nature reserve in Viet Nam: Na Hang dam threatens forests, people and wildlife
• Forests and conflict
INTERNATIONAL ACTION
• FAO
• World Food Summit: five years later
• FAO Livelihood Support Programme "Improving support for enhancing livelihoods of the rural poor"
• Forest Products Division
• Travel of NWFP officers
• RIL-Afrique-L - une nouvelle liste électronique
• Forest Resource Division
• FORESTRY POLICY AND PLANNING DIVISION
• FAO AND THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION (EC)
• FAO IN THE FIELD
• Center for Tropical Forest Science
• Convention on Biodiversity
• IUCN/SSC Medicinal Plant Specialist Group
• Overseas Development Institute
• TRAFFIC
• Tropenbos International
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Non-Wood News 9
AN INFORMATION BULLETIN ON NON-WOOD FOREST PRODUCTS
March 2002
EDITORIAL |
Arriving at our ninth issue and looking back over a time
span of nine years since the first issue of Non-Wood News in 1994 provides us
with a unique opportunity to reflect on and take stock of the Òlessons learnedÓ
in preparing this newsletter.
The purpose of Non-Wood News is still as
valid now in 2002 as it was in 1994. Quoting the Editorial of the first issue:
The purpose of Non-Wood News, as an information bulletin, is to provide readers
with useful information and insight about the promise that the future holds in
the field of non-wood forest products (NWFPs) and the issues to be addressed
with regard to their sustainable development.
In view of the numerous
contributions and feedback we receive from readers worldwide, we hope that we
have indeed contributed to more information sharing on NWFPs among a wide range
of people from different backgrounds and countries. With the increased
accessibility to electronic communications, the NWFP-Digest-L was initiated in
2000 as a monthly e-mail information bulletin to strengthen and contribute
further to easier information exchange among people interested in the
development of NWFPs. In addition, Non-Wood News also became available online
through our NWFP Web site, which contains all previous issues of both Non-Wood
News and the NWFPDigest- L, in order to facilitate access to the wealth of
information which has been accumulating over these nine years.
Regarding
the second point of the purpose of the newsletter, i.e. "... about the
promise that the future holds in the field of NWFPs ", there indeed we still
need to work hard to make this "promise"
a reality for the millions of households
worldwide who depend heavily on NWFPs
for their subsistence needs and income.
In response to this challenge, FAOÕs
NWFP Programme, which in its early
stages gave strong emphasis to activities
on raising awareness of the role and
contribution of NWFPs to rural
development and poverty alleviation, is
now giving greater importance to the
activities which contribute directly to the
development of the NWFP sector. Key
actions include the elaboration of
methodologies for assessing resources
providing NWFPs, statistical data at the
national level for the production and trade
of NWFPs, or further clarification of the
contribution of certification and benefitsharing
arrangements to the sustainable
management of NWFPs, as well as the
promotion of selected NWFPs of key
importance, such as rattan, edible forest
plants or mushrooms, by identifying major
constraints and actions and projects
required for enhancing their sustainable
and equitable development.
In the meantime, there have been some changes in the
staffing of FAO's NWFP Programme. Ms Laura Russo has taken up new
responsibilities within FAO and is now dealing with the assessment of the
environmental impact of forest harvesting. Laura has been with the NWFP group,
and particularly with Non-Wood News, almost since its conception. We want to
thank her for her tremendous and much appreciated contribution and wish her
every success in her new assignment. At the same time, we welcome Mr François
Ndeckere-Ziangba who has joined us. François has considerable experience with a
wide range of forestry issues and knowledge of NWFPs of Central Africa to share
with us.
I would like to take this opportunity to give special thanks to
the person who actually makes it all happen, Ms Tina Etherington. Without her
dedication and many long hours of work in compiling Non-Wood News and the
NWFP-Digest, we would not even be able to produce them.
And, last but not least, all of this would
not have been possible if it were not for
the many reactions and text contributions
we receive from you, the readers. After all,
Non-Wood News is made by its readers
for its readers. Again our sincere thanks
go to all of you.
Paul Vantomme |
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Non-Wood Newsis compiled by Tina Etherington,
Wood and Non-Wood Products Utilization Branch (FOPW) of the FAO Forest
Products Division. Technical support for this issue was provided by Paul
Vantomme, Sven Walter and François Ndeckere-Ziangba;
design, graphics and desktop publishing were coordinated by Tina
Etherington.
Non-Wood News is open
to contributions by readers. Contributions may be edited to fit the
appropriate size and focus of the bulletin.
If you have any material that could be included in the next issue of Non-Wood News for the benefit of other readers, kindly send it, before 15 January 2003, to:
NON-WOOD NEWS - FOPW
FAO,
Viale delle Terme di Caracalla
00100 Rome, Italy
E-mail: [email protected]
www.fao.org/forestry/nwfp/nonwood.htm
FAO
home page: www.fao.org
The designations employed and the presentation of material in this publication do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. |
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Non-wood forest products (NWFP) are goods of biological origin other than wood, derived from forests, other wooded land and trees outside forests. Non-timber forest products (NTFP), another term frequently used to cover this vast array of animal and plant products, also includes small wood and fuelwood. However, these two terms are used synonymously throughout this bulletin. Other terms, such as “minor”, “secondary” or “speciality” forest products, are sometimes used to keep original names and/or titles. |
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