A great diversity of fruit species has originated in the American tropics. Despite their many uses - including fresh consumption, animal feeding, agribusiness and crop diversification - just a few Neotropical fruits have been studied. This makes bibliography scarce, scattered and not easily acces...
Among the native tropical underutilized fruits of promising potential, durian assumes great importance particularly in Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia. Global interest in this fruit is catching up fast and its commercial prospects increasing. With promising clones now available and considering t...
This book is a compilation of the abstracts of in-house and external publications produced in the year 2001 by CIFOR scientists and their collaborators. The abstracts are grouped into seven themes: general, biodiversity, forest governance and community forestry, forest management, non-timber fore...
Only recently, ethnobotany has cought the interest of actors involved in the sustainable management of natural resources based on local ecological knowledge. In the perspective of conceiving a website for the African Ethnobotany Network (AEN), a preliminary study was undertaken in order to assess...
Petit, C.
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Dounias, E.
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[L'ethnobotanique sur internet: quelles perspectives pour le Réseau Africain d'Ethnobotanique?]
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L'ethnobotanique sur internet: quelles perspectives pour le Réseau Africain d'Ethnobotanique?
This bibliography for the Republic of Congo is a sequel to the one on Gabon. It comprises 312 annotated references on thematic areas: fauna, flora, vegetation, ecology, conservation, silviculture, forest inventory, forest management, forest policy and economy, non-timber forest products, etc.; an...
Biodiversity Planning Support Programme (BPSP) aims to provide support to national biodiversity planners with sectoral integration of National Biodiversity Strategy and Actions Plans (NBSAPs) into the broader national development framework - specifically in relation to Article 6 General Measures ...
Nasi, Robert
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Santoso, L.
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Prianto, E.
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Suharyanto, G.
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[Integrating biodiversity into the forestry sector]
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Integrating biodiversity into the forestry sector
This publication compiles and synthesises information on forest ecosystems with a view to transferring this knowledge to professionals and institutions involved in research and training. The chosen references provide an up-to-date picture of achievements in sustainable management of forest resour...
This bibliography for the Republic of Congo is a sequel to the one on Gabon. It comprises 312 annotated references on thematic areas: fauna, flora, vegetation, ecology, conservation, silviculture, forest inventory, forest management, forest policy and economy, non-timber forest products, etc.; an...
To understand the potential role of forest products in household livelihoods, a study of the woodcraft industry in Zimbabwe was initiated. The woodcraft industry has increased steadily since the late 1980s. The factors driving the upsurge in the woodcraft industry are: (1) the increased demand by...
Nair, K.S.S.
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[Insect pests and diseases in Indonesian forest: an assessment of the major threats, research efforts and literature]
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Insect pests and diseases in Indonesian forest: an assessment of the major threats, research efforts and literature
This publication is a collection of the abstracts of in-house and external publications produced in the year 2000 by CIFOR scientists and their collaborators. It also abstracts several publications produced in 1999 that were not able to be included in the 1999 research abstrats. The abstracts are...