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Plant products

Animals and animal products

Categories

Description

Categories

Description

Food

Vegetal foodstuff and beverages provided by fruits, nuts, seeds, roots, mushrooms, etc.

Living animals

Mainly vertebrates such as mammals, birds, reptiles kept/bought as pets

Fodder

Animal and bee fodder provided by leaves, fruits, etc.

Honey and beeswax

Products provided by bees

Medicines

Medicinal plants (e.g. leaves, bark, roots) used in traditional medicine and/or by pharmaceutical companies

Bushmeat

Meat provided by vertebrates, mainly mammals

Perfumes and cosmetics

Aromatic plants providing essential (volatile) oils and other products used for cosmetic purposes

Other edible animal products

Mainly edible invertebrates such as insects (e.g. caterpillars) and other "secondary" products of animals (e.g. eggs, nests)

Dying and tanning

Plant material (mainly bark and leaves) providing tannins and other plant parts (especially leaves and fruits) used as colorants

Hides and skins

Hide and skin of animals used for various purposes

Utensils, handicrafts and construction materials

Heterogeneous group of products including thatch, bamboo, rattan, wrapping leaves, fibres

Medicine

Entire animals or parts of animals such as various organs used for medicinal purposes

Ornamentals

Entire plants (e.g. orchids) and parts of the plants (e.g. pots made from roots) used for ornamental purposes

Colorants

Entire animals or parts of animals such as various organs used as colorants

Exudates

Substances such as gums (water soluble), resins (water insoluble) and latex (milky or clear juice), released from plants by exudation

Other non-edible animal products

e.g. bones used as tools

Other

e.g. insecticides, fungicides

   

1 The proceedings of this meeting are available at http://www.fao.org/docrep/X5402e/X5402e00.htm.

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