Extensive areas of the Congo Basin forest are allocated to timber concessionaires. These forests also harbour and support village populations, including indigenous Baka people, who depend on forest foods obtained directly from trees (fruits, oils and caterpillars). Most food-producing tree specie...
Tieguhong, J.C.
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Snook, L.K.
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Taedoumg, H.
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Maukonen, P.
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Tchatat, M.
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Loo, J.
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Tchingsabe, O.
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Noutcheu, R.
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Iponga, D.M.
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Kahindo, J.M.
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Muvatsi, P.
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Yobo, C.M.
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Tutu, S.
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Ngoye, A.
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[Beyond timber: balancing demands for tree resources between concessionaires and villagers]
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Beyond timber: balancing demands for tree resources between concessionaires and villagers
With increasing rates of forest depletion worldwide, it is increasingly being asked whether markets can play a role in mitigating the deleterious environmental and social impacts of forestry activities. The Forest Stewardship Council and others have proposed systems of ecological certification, w...
Ngakan, P.O.
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Komarudin, H.
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Achmad, A.
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Wahyudi
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Tako, A.
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[Ketergantungan, persepsi dan partisipasi masyarakat terhadap sumberdaya hayati hutan: studi kasus di dusun Pampli kabupaten Luwu utara, Sulawesi selatan]
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Ketergantungan, persepsi dan partisipasi masyarakat terhadap sumberdaya hayati hutan: studi kasus di dusun Pampli kabupaten Luwu utara, Sulawesi selatan
This book contains 20 case studies that explain how a selection of forest resources featuring forest plans, animals and fungi are harvested, processed and traded. The botanical cases are presented according to the main part of the plant being used - the fruit, bark or resin. Sometimes the plants ...
López, C.
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Shanley, P.
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[Riches of the forest: food, spices, crafts and resins of Asia [Japanese]]
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Riches of the forest: food, spices, crafts and resins of Asia [Japanese]
This book compiles traditional and specialized knowledge about 26 plants used by rural and urban people in Latin America. The pages tell real-life stories about a wide range of forest products and the people who use and manage them. The book describes what we can learn from the people who carve o...
López, C.
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Shanley, P.
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Fantini, A.C.
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[Riquezas da floresta: frutas, plantas medicinais e artesanato na América Latina]
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Riquezas da floresta: frutas, plantas medicinais e artesanato na América Latina
Indonesia is among the world's leading wood products exporters, and is the leading plywood exporter. The forest sector has grown rapidly in the last three decades to 487 concessions occupying 56 million hectares. A notable change in recent years has been the rapid growth of the pulp and paper ind...
Expansive growth in the logging, ranching and mining industries is swiftly transforming forests and forest dependent communities worldwide. To either resist or adapt to the powerful forces changing rural landscapes, small holders must respond to a glut of new information in an exceedingly short s...
Shanley, P.
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Rodríguez Gaia, G.
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[Break barriers, increase impact: equitable generation and dissemination of natural resource information in the Brazilian Amazon]
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Break barriers, increase impact: equitable generation and dissemination of natural resource information in the Brazilian Amazon
Belcher, B.
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Ruiz Perez, M.
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Rohadi, D.
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Achdiawan, R.
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[A method for comparative analysis of NTFP cases: a test with cases from Indonesia: a poster presented at XII IUFRO World Congress, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. August, 7 - 12]
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A method for comparative analysis of NTFP cases: a test with cases from Indonesia: a poster presented at XII IUFRO World Congress, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. August, 7 - 12
Cunningham, A.B.
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German, L.
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Paumgarten, F.
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Chikakula, M.
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Barr, C.
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Obidzinski, K.
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Noordwijk, Meine van
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Koning, R.G. de
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Koning, R.G. de
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Purnomo, H.
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Yatich, Thomas
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Svensson, L.
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Gaafar, A.
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Puntodewo, A.
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[Sustainable trade and management of forest products and services in the COMESA region: an issue paper]
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Sustainable trade and management of forest products and services in the COMESA region: an issue paper
This book critically investigates the proposition that commercialisation of forest products contribute to both enhancing people's income and to conservation of tropical forests, using evidence from a case study from West Kalimantan, Indonesia. It draws the main conclusion that promoting commercia...
Jong, W. de
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[Forest products and local forest management in West Kalimantan, Indonesia: implications for conservation and development]
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Forest products and local forest management in West Kalimantan, Indonesia: implications for conservation and development