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Agriculture is the mainstay of the country and also the major source of employment and income. About 85 percent of the population live in the rural areas and are primarily engaged in agriculture and related activities. Among the other agricultural sector, livestock production contributes about 30...


Bizuwork, A.Tadddesse, G.Sonder, KaiPeden, Donald G.Jobre, Y.[Comparative assessment of forage and livestock density in Tekeze River Basin]Comparative assessment of forage and livestock density in Tekeze River Basin

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.Shanley, P.Fantini, A.C.[Riquezas da floresta: frutas, plantas medicinais e artesanato na América Latina]Riquezas da floresta: frutas, plantas medicinais e artesanato na América Latina
Bergh, I. van denAmorim, E.P.Johnson, V.[Proceedings. International ISHS-ProMusa Symposium on Bananas and Plantains: Towards Sustainable Global Production and Improved Use. Salvador, Bahia (Brazil) 10-14 October 2013]Proceedings. International ISHS-ProMusa Symposium on Bananas and Plantains: Towards Sustainable Global Production and Improved Use. Salvador, Bahia (Brazil) 10-14 October 2013

This paper reviews the historical development of the use of the eucalypt over 200 years, from its curiosity status in the botanical gardens of Europe to its extensive use as a fuelwood for the wood-burning locomotives of the national railway systems, and then to its more recent use as a major sou...


Turnbull, J.W.[Eucalypt plantations]Eucalypt plantations

NTFPs can be of particular importance to people in forested mountain locations, because of their relative lack of access to alternative inputs and sources of income. Mountain forest uses centred on NTFPs can show a clearer link between conservation and development potentials due to the reduced op...


Arnold, J.E.M.Ruiz Perez, M.[Income from non-timber forest products]Income from non-timber forest products
Autor: Kaskija, L.

This book focuses primarily on changes that have taken place in the Malinau area in East Kalimantan in recent years. The Punan Malinau, who inhabit the area, are former nomads who subsist on a wide range of forest-oriented activities, including swidden agriculture, hunting and the collection of a...


Kaskija, L.[Claiming the forest: Punan local histories and recent developments in Bulungan, East Kalimantan]Claiming the forest: Punan local histories and recent developments in Bulungan, East Kalimantan

In North Sumatra, Batak farmers tap benzoin resin from several species of Styrax. Most of the production is sent to Central Java where it is used for incense and traditional cigarettes manufacture. Consummation of klembak menyan, a traditional cigarette has decreased because of competition of kre...


Goloubinoff, M.[Harum madu dan dupa kemenyan di Jawa Tengah]Harum madu dan dupa kemenyan di Jawa Tengah

Analysis of the fuelwood situation has been hampered by lack of reliable information, and has been the subject of considerable debate. The present paper assesses the implications of recent information on the subject. New data and recent more accurate projections show that increasing urbanisation ...


Arnold, J.E.M.Persson, R.[Reassessing the fuelwood situation in developing countries]Reassessing the fuelwood situation in developing countries

Sumatran benzoin is a resin produced by Styrax trees, managed in forest gardens in the highlands of North Sumatra. The resin is used in incense, perfume and pharmaceutical preparations and as a flafouring agent. Trade with foreign countries has existed for over a millennium, first with China and ...


García Fernandez, C.[Benzoin, a resin produced by Styrax trees in North Sumatra Province, Indonesia]Benzoin, a resin produced by Styrax trees in North Sumatra Province, Indonesia

Responding to the decline of game, fruit and fiber, post-logging, communities along the Capim River in Pará, Brazil, requested that research be initiated into the value of non-timber forest products. As a first step, an ethnobotanical inventory of one hectare of mature terra firme forest was cond...


Shanley, P.Rosa, N.A.[Eroding knowledge: an ethnobotanical inventory in Eastern Amazonia's logging frontier]Eroding knowledge: an ethnobotanical inventory in Eastern Amazonia's logging frontier

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