Guest Article - (Pdf )
Ecological, social and economic
sustainability: a return to agroforestry
Special Features - (Pdf )
NTFP research – funded by the Kleinhans Fellowship Program of Rainforest Alliance
• Rainforest Alliance’s Kleinhans Fellowship: reflections from over 20 years of NTFP research
• The NTFP walk through forest discourses
• Multiple use of non-timber forest products and environmental services: the case of the MAP region in southwestern Amazonia
• NTFPs are dead, long live NTFPs!
• Epiphyte management? The answer is yes
• The changing world of rattan
• Agaves as NTFPs and mezcals in
Mexico: an opportunity for
sustainability?
• The evolution of a traditional
resource: new products and new
questions for rubber tappers in the
Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve in
the Brazilian Amazon
• Diverse people, multiple strategies
and different outcomes: a
longitudinal analysis evaluating the
effect of NTFPs on forest
conservation in Amazonia
•The human side of NTFP research
and development
News and Notes - (Pdf )
Amazonian seeds used to make
jewellery
Bioprospecting/benefit-sharing or biopiracy?
• Kenya: use the law to protect
traditional knowledge
• Biopiracy: depriving indigenous
rights in Sri Lanka
•Panama is first to benefit from fund
to tackle biopiracy
European forests
Forest height affects climate change
Forests: medicine for body and soul
Health and nutrition: compliments of
the forest
Impacts of selective logging on NTFPs
of livelihood importance
Indigenous knowledge of forests
• Saving the forests with indigenous
knowledge
• Indigenous knowledge
complements scientific knowledge
Natural products conference
New biodiversity map of the Andes
shows species in dire need of
protection
Non-profit organizations and NGOs
On the menu: forests
“PROTA 16: Fibres”: overview of African fibre plants completed!
Réflexions sur un cadre conceptuel
pour une gestion durable des PFNL
en Afrique centrale
Science in the hands of people
Slash-and-burn “improves tropical
forest biodiversity”
Wales-Africa link creates winning
team: best new small and medium
enterprise in Africa
Wild monkeys to measure
contamination levels in forests
Products and Markets - (Pdf )
Andiroba, Argan oil, Artemisia, Bamboo,
Bark, Bushmeat, Edible insects, Fruits,
Ginseng, Honey and honeybees,
Medicinal plants and herbs, Mulberries,
Nuts, Rattan, Shea butter, Shellac,
Stevia, Tamanu oil, Truffles, Wildlife
Country Compass - (Pdf )
Afghanistan, Angola, Armenia,
Australia, Bangladesh, Benin, Bhutan,
Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central
African Republic, China, Colombia, Côte
d’Ivoire, Finland, Gabon, Georgia,
Ghana, India, Jamaica, Kosovo, Lao
People’s Democratic Republic,
Madagascar, Malaysia, Mexico,
Namibia, New Zealand, Nigeria, Peru,
Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Sierra
Leone, South Africa, United Republic of
Tanzania, United States of America,
Zimbabwe
Econook - (Pdf )
• Billion Tree Campaign
• CEPF to invest US$9.8 million to
conserve eastern Afromontane
biodiversity hotspot
•Community mapping of African rain
forests could show way forward for
preservation
• Conserving biodiversity hotspots “could bring world's poor US$500
billion a year”
• Eye on Earth summit launches
biodiversity initiatives
• Threats to natural ecosystems
• UN launches Decade on Biodiversity
International Action - (Pdf )
• FAO, Forest Heroes Awards, Rio+20:
United Nations Conference on
Sustainable Development, Silva
Mediterranea
Recent and Forthcoming Events - (Pdf )
Publications of Interest - (Pdf )
Web sites - (Pdf )
Readers' Response - (Pdf )
Back Cover - (Pdf ) |
Non-Wood News 24
An information bulletin on Non-Wood Forest Products
May 2012
EDITORIAL |
This is my last issue of Non-Wood News as your editor so I am glad that it is such a special one! It is special because it highlights the exceptional partnerships we have made and the truly rich information that has been generated.
The first important partnership is with Rainforest Alliance, which is celebrating
its 25th anniversary this year. Deanna Newsom, the manager of the Rainforest
Alliance’s Kleinhans Fellowship contacted Non-Wood News last year to see if
we would like to be involved in their anniversary celebrations by highlighting the
work of the Kleinhans Fellowships, which are two-year fellowships dedicated
exclusively to research into non-wood forest products. The Special Feature in
the present issue is a direct result of this collaboration, and includes nine original
essays from researchers past and present who have been awarded such a
fellowship.
The second partnership highlighted in this issue is the one with the Center for
International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and People and Plants International. I
was contacted by Patricia Shanley, Senior Research Associate at CIFOR, some
years ago, to see how we could collaborate together to co-produce an updated
English version of a unique publication that had then only been published in
Portuguese. Its uniqueness lies in its emphasis on communicating scientific
information and results in a way that non-scientists – for example, local people
who have interacted with the scientists – can understand and use: a form of “respectful research”. Our partnership culminated in the publication of Fruit
trees and useful plants in Amazonian life, which was launched in December 2011at a ceremony at FAO headquarters marking the close of the International Year
of Forests with Patricia, who was lead editor of the publication, as the guest
speaker. Her speech (which was truly inspirational and met with lengthy
applause), together with extracts from the publication are featured in this issue.
The third partnership covered concerns the collaboration on edible insects
with Wageningen University of the Netherlands, which led to the workshop –
“Assessing the potential of insects as food and feed in assuring food security”–
that took place in January at FAO headquarters. This was the first time that the
many different actors in the sector came together to discuss the varied role of
edible insects in food security issues. A report on the workshop, together with
coverage on different aspects of edible insects – for example, food or feed – can
be found in this issue.
And this brings me to the last partnership – the partnership between Non-Wood News
and you, its readers. After being involved in 21 issues of Non-Wood News, and having worked
in FAO since 1978, it is time for me to “move on”. I would like, therefore, to thank the many
people with whom I have been in contact over the years, those of you who have kindly shared
their research or written articles, those who have sent an interesting link or provided me with a
copy of their latest publication – or those of you who have just sent kind words. It has always been
encouraging to know that Non-Wood News has such an active readership. Thank you also to all the
scientists and researchers who have willingly shared their viewpoints through the guest article. Non-
Wood News has been a joy and a real privilege for me to produce because of you all and I will certainly
miss that! Final thanks go to my great team (Roberta, Claudia, Anouchka, Deliana, Giulia and Susy)
who have helped me over the years
I would like to end by remembering the founder and first editor of Non-Wood News: Dr Cherukat Chandrasekharan (1933–2007). It was his recognition of the vital role and importance of NWFPs in the
lives and livelihoods of many people worldwide that led him to create Non-Wood News in 1994 as a vehicle to raise awareness
and disseminate the latest thinking from the world of NWFPs. The importance of NWFPs remains – as you, the readers of Non-
Wood News, well know. I would like to close by wishing you all the best in the future.
Tina Etherington |
NON-WOOD NEWS |
is compiled and coordinated by Tina Etherington, FAO Forest Economics, Policy and Products Division. Language
editing by Roberta Mitchell and Anouchka Lazarev; design, graphics and desktop publishing by Claudia Tonini.
Non-Wood News is open to contributions by readers. Contributions are welcomed in English, French and Spanish
and 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 31 August 2012, to:
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All Internet links cited were checked on 24 October 2011. Articles express the views of their authors, not necessarily
those of FAO. Authors may be contacted directly for their reference sources. 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.
Non-wood forest products (NWFPs) are goods of biological origin other than wood, derived from
forests, other wooded land and trees outside forests. Non-timber forest products (NTFPs), another term frequently used to cover this vast array of animal and plant products, also include 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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