Non-wood forest products

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Projects

Featured here are recent and ongoing FAO projects and initiatives related to NWFPs. Technical assistance aligns with FAO’s Strategic Framework 2022-31 which supports the achievement of the broader SDG agenda. Core areas of technical assistance include supporting and promoting:

  • sustainable NWFP-based value chains;
  • food security and nutrition by optimizing the use of NWFPs;
  • the sustainable management of NWFPs and associated habitats and services;
  • an enabling environment, including through improved policies, data and knowledge.
Title Enhancing food security through non-wood forest products in Central Africa 2005-2008
Introduction The project aimed to enhance food security in six Central African countries, Cameroon, Gabon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo (RDC), Equatorial Guinea and the Republic of Congo, through the sustainable use of NWFP from moist dense forests and other tree-based systems.
Start date 2005
End date 2008
Project Code GCP/RAF/398/GER