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NON TIMBER FOREST PRODUCTS - MARKETING AND TRADE

2023
This chapter explores the marketing and trade aspects of non-timber forest products (NTFPs), highlighting their significance in global commerce and their potential for sustainable livelihoods. NTFPs encompass a wide range of goods derived from forests, including medicinal plants, nuts, fruits, resins, fibers, and more.
Pragati Patil, Ashick Rajah R
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Research in Non-Timber Forest Products

Journal of Sustainable Forestry, 2001
Abstract Summary Non-timber forest products (NTFPs) have emerged as a complex set of issues reflecting changes in society and how natural resources are regarded. These issues range from the sustainability of forest management practices to the relationship of diverse cultures and communities to public lands and their resources.
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Non-timber forest products in livelihoods

2015
That people from around the world have incorporated numerous plant and animal products into their lives, economies, cultures, traditions and histories is well known, and is the subject of a multitude of academic and non-academic documents across many disciplines.
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Analysis of trade in non-timber forest products

2003
Recent studies indicate a huge annual trade in medicinal plants from the Himalayas. Based on a national level survey of trade, this paper investigates trade in one of the most important commercial medicinal plant species from Nepal, Swertia chirayita (Roxb. ex Flem.) Karst.
Olsen, C. S., Treue, T.
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14. The study of non-timber forest products

The Environmentalist, 1984
Summary Tropical rainforests contain an astonishing variety of plants that are of use to man as a source of timber, food, medicines, industrial products, and spices. The nontimber forest products play significant roles in the domestic economy of countries, but unfortunately their continued use and availability is being threatened by timber extraction
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International Non-Timber Forest Product Issues

Journal of Sustainable Forestry, 2001
Summary Perceived as socially, economically, and ecologically sustainable, non-timber forest products (NTFPs) have held special charm as alternatives to forest management focussed exclusively on timber. This paper examines themes central to development of NTFPs as management and conservation strategies in the developing world.
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The bioeconomy and non-timber forest products

2022
Carsten Smith-Hall, James Chamberlain
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Non-Timber Forest Products in the Global Context

2011
This book provides a comprehensive, global synthesis of current knowledge on the potential and challenges associated with the multiple roles, use, management and marketing of non-timber forest products (NTFPs). There has been considerable research and policy effort surrounding NTFPs over the last two and half decades.
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The Value of Timber and Non-timber Forest Products

2019
In this chapter, the disparity in value between the marketable values of forests and the main alternative land-uses is discussed. This results from the low value of logs and, especially in the tropics the low proportion of commercially usable log volume. Thus the returns on investing in sustainable forest management and the establishment of plantations
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Effects on Global Forests and Wood Product Markets of Increased Demand for Mass Timber †

Sustainability, 2021
Prakash Nepal, Indroneil Ganguly
exaly