SPECIAL FEATURES (Pdf )
• A Global Alliance on Non-Wood
Forest Products
• Microcredit/microfinance
• Productos forestales no madereros
en América Latina y sus
perspectivas al 2020
NEWS AND NOTES
(Pdf )
• Amazon fibres
• Vegetable plastic
• Natural fibres for cars
• Ecovogt, textile based on Amazonia
plants
• Are ramp festivals sustainable?
• Bees
• Forest makes coffee farm richer
• Taking the sting out of beekeeping
in South Africa
• Bee Foundation to sign deal
• Zambian honey gets German fair
trade certificate
• Beekeeping centre opened in
Armenia
• Uganda gets ready to export honey
• Bioprospecting or biopiracy?
- Making bioprospecting a
sustainable endeavour
• Samoa to profit from indigenous
knowledge deal
• Indigenous knowledge and rights
must be protected
• Katemfe (Thaumatococcus
danielli): sweet prospects turn sour
• Biopiracy Web site
• Malaysian state acts to thwart
biopirates
• Biopiracy of indigenous African
knowledge
• UK wildlife must not be patented for
profit
• Birch bark extract – a value added
boreal product
• Bugging sandalwood trees
• Butterfly farming
• Certification: community
management for multiple uses
• Certification problems and guidelines
for botanical and fauna non-wood
forest products
• Congo Basin Forest Partnership
• Cupuaçu chocolate
• Domestication of non-wood forest
products: the transition from
common property resource to crop
• Forests and health
• Traditional medicines have “real
benefits”
• Jungle medicine has already cured
800 diseases
• Sustaining the supply of traditional
medicines (DFID Forestry Research
Programme R8305)
• Forests, safety nets for HIV/AIDSaffected
households
• Traditional medicines “must be
registered and studied”
• Support for traditional medicine from
African states
• Traditional medicine action plan in
Kenya
• Centre of forestry health
• Insect attacks eucalyptus
• Mangrove Action Project
• Minilivestock
- Minilivestock use implications
• Gecko breeding expansion in Viet
Nam
• Bureau for Exchange and
Distribution of Information on Mini-
Livestock
• Organically certified NWFPs –
harvesting wild and semidomesticated
species
• Organic Producers and Association
of Zambia
• Outlook studies
• Plant and clay dyes
• Plant more trees
• Pongamia pinnata oil
• Probona
• Projet d’Appui technique à la filière
karité (ProKarité)
• Sudan Silva
• Taiga non-timber forest products
• Trade
• ASEAN committed to controlling
wildlife trade
• Biotrade
• Trade controls on hoodia and Asian
yew trees
• Global trade in agarwood
• Tree Aid
• Who conserves the world’s forests?
PRODUCTS AND MARKETS (Pdf )
• Açaí
• Bamboo
• Brazil nuts
• Bushmeat
• Camu camu
• Gum arabic
• Medicinal plants
• Mushrooms
• Resins
COUNTRY COMPASS (Pdf )
• Armenia
• Azerbaijan
• Bangladesh
•
Botswana
• Brazil
• Canada
• China
• Colombia
• Côte d’Ivoire
• Democratic
Republic of the Congo
• Ghana
• India
• Ireland
• Japan
• Jordan
• Kenya
• Madagascar
• Malaysia
• Morocco
• Namibia
• Nepal
• Panama
• Philippines
• Russian Federation
• South Africa
• Uganda
• United States
of America
• Viet Nam
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe
ECONOOK (Pdf )
• Uganda, Kenya in cross-border pact
• Protecting the Amazon
• Brazil Amazon deforestation jumps,
data show
• Ecotourism
• Laos discovers lucrative ecotourism
niche
• Ecotourism agitates animals
• Damming Belize
• Ecotours
INTERNATIONAL ACTION (Pdf )
• FAO
• South and east asian countries ntfp network (seann)
RECENT EVENTS (Pdf )
FORTHCOMING EVENTS (Pdf )
PUBLICATIONS OF INTEREST (Pdf )
WEB SITES (Pdf )
READER'S RESPONSE (Pdf ) |
Non-Wood News 12
AN INFORMATION BULLETIN ON NON-WOOD FOREST PRODUCTS
March 2005
EDITORIAL (Pdf ) |
Forest-dependent communities have always recognized the importance of NWFPs in their everyday lives – whether as food, shelter or medicine. Over time, recognition of the importance of NWFPs in poverty alleviation and knowledge of the multiplicity of uses and benefits deriving from NWFPs have grown steadily and many NWFPs are now traded at all levels: locally, regionally, nationally and globally (although figures on this trade are often unorganized, missing or incomplete, e.g. on bushmeat).
The Special Features section in this issue of Non-Wood News emphasizes
the economic importance of NWFPs and provides information on economic benefits
at the local level (see the Siberian Pine Syrup Project pp. 5–6) through
to the global level (see trade figures on pp. 8–9).
Traditional knowledge is a significant aspect of NWFPs, touching as it does on issues of benefit-sharing, bioprospecting and biopiracy, all of which have been covered extensively in this issue (see p. 15). Information on NGOs working with NWFPs has also been included, but we would like to hear more about NGO activity at both the grassroots and international level so please continue to send us your contributions.
Coverage of products in this
issue ranges from the versatility of bamboo (used equally successfully to build
houses or produce T-shirts) to the extensive use of medicinal plants worldwide.
There is information on products from both tropical and temperate forests, as
well as from the vast boreal areas. NWFPs exist in all regions of the world
and consequently the Country Compass section is particularly rich, with information
from 34 countries.
Information dissemination and networking are key aspects of today’s knowledge
society – both of which have always been important aims of Non-Wood
News. In 2005 we carried out an auto-evaluation exercise in order to improve
our service and to give you an opportunity to make suggestions and comments.
Over 600 readers completed our questionnaire (see pp. 69–70 for full results)
and we were delighted that so many of you took the time to share your ideas.
Thank you for such an excellent response.
This issue has started to reflect some of your suggestions and to address your comments – the most important of which regarded frequency: a vast majority wanted Non-Wood News to be issued at least twice a year (with many keen to see it as a quarterly newsletter). Accordingly, we will now be bringing you two issues yearly, which we ultimately hope will lead to a shorter and more streamlined product.
In conclusion, while many of us are not part of forest-dependent communities, we are definitely part of a wider global NWFP community. Our aim with Non-Wood News is to continue to disseminate knowledge on NWFP activities from all societal levels around the world in order to raise the profile of NWFPs and emphasize their importance – economically, ecologically and socially. |
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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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