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Value chain analysis of medicinal plants in Geoparks: Livelihoods of ethnic minorities based on non-timber forest products (NTFPs) in Vietnam. [PDF]

PLoS One
Nguyen AT, Ngo KH, Ngo NX, Le NA, Trinh Phuong N, Thao DT, Le HT, Linh Vu C, Luu TT, Khuc VQ, Nguyen HT, Nguyen DB.   +11 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Use of columnar cacti in the Tehuacán Valley, Mexico: perspectives for sustainable management of non-timber forest products. [PDF]

J Ethnobiol Ethnomed, 2014
Pérez-Negrón E, Dávila P, Casas A.
europepmc   +1 more source

Toward Globalization of the Forest Products Industry: Some Trends [PDF]

This paper examines the hypothesis that changes have been brought about in the forest industry that allow it to participate fully in globalization. The forest industry has undergone profound changes in recent years in large part by new technologies ...
Sedjo, Roger A., Bael, David
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Genotyping-by-sequencing informs conservation of Andean palms sources of non-timber forest products. [PDF]

Evol Appl
Peñafiel Loaiza N, Chafe AH, Moraes R M, Oleas NH, Roncal J.   +4 more
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Amenities and Risk in Forest Management [PDF]

The objective of the paper is to analyze the risk management behavior of a non-industrial private forest owner under uncertainty about timber production. Two types of hedging strategies with harvesting decisions are studied: a financial practice versus a
Couture, Stéphane, Brunette, Marielle, Langlais, Eric   +2 more
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A national crop wild relative checklist for Zimbabwe reveals edible crop wild relative diversity of regional and global importance

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Crop wild relatives (CWR) in Zimbabwe are reservoirs of beneficial agronomic traits, yet they remain under‐documented and poorly conserved. This study developed Zimbabwe's first national CWR checklist based on a conceptual framework combining floristic, ecological and ethnobotanical data, revealing over 2700 taxa, with nearly 1000 edible species ...
Kudakwashe Mutasa, Onismus Chipfunde, Christopher Chapano, Patience Chatukuta   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Does commercialization lead to more intensive management strategies? Decision-making for the utilization of non-timber forest products in a Nahua area of the Sierra Negra, Mexico. [PDF]

J Ethnobiol Ethnomed
Miranda-Gamboa MA, Martínez-Ballesté A, Ricker M, Casas A, Blancas J.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Management and incipient domestication of Chamaedorea tepejilote in agroforestry systems in Mexico

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Native wild plants are key elements in addressing global biodiversity loss and supporting sustainable food systems. We investigated how rural communities in Mexico manage Chamaedorea tepejilote, a wild palm with edible male inflorescences, by combining ethnobotanical, genetic, morphological and ecological approaches.
Viviana Andrade, Alejandro Casas, Edna Arévalo‐Marín, Gonzalo D. Álvarez‐Ríos, Hernán Alvarado‐Sizzo, Vanessa Guerrero‐Hernández, Paola Ubiergo‐Corvalán, Maite Lascurain‐Rangel   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Non-Timber Forest Products in the Livelihood and Coping Strategies of Households and Communities Afflicted by HIV/AIDS

, 2004
This paper argues that natural resources, specifically non-timber forest products (i.e., medicinal plants, wild foods, artesinal materials, etc.) play an integral part in household and community responses to the biophysical and socio-economic impacts of ...
Barany, Marc Edwin
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Close‐to‐nature management regulates ecosystem carbon storage through its effects on vegetation community structure in Pinus massoniana plantations

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Forest plantations play an increasingly important role in climate change mitigation through carbon sequestration, yet management strategies that enhance long‐term ecosystem carbon storage remain insufficiently understood. We investigated the effects of more than a decade of close‐to‐nature management on community structure and ecosystem carbon storage ...
Yuwen Luo, Yunliang Ni, Zongzheng Chai
wiley   +1 more source