Very large numbers of the rural poor derive some part of their livelihood inputs from forest resources, in different ways and to different extents. For many the dependence on forests is a function of their poverty, because they lack better alternatives. Helping meet their subsistence and survival...
Sizer, N.
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Bass, S.
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Mayers, J.
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Arnold, J.E.M.
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Auckland, L.
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Belcher, B.
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Bird, N.
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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Carle, J.
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Cleary, D.
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Counsell, S.
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Enters, T.
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Fernando, K.
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Gullison, T.
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Hudson, J.
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Kellison, B.
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Klingberg, T.
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Owen, C.N.
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Sampson, N.
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Vermeulen, Sonja J.
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Wollenberg, Eva K.
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Shackleton, S.
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Edmunds, D.
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[Wood, fuelwood, and non-wood forest products]
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Wood, fuelwood, and non-wood forest products
This book contains a number of commissioned background papers presented at the workshop on ‘Research on Non-timber Forest Products’ (Hot Springs, Zimbabwe, 28 August - 2 September 1995). Bringing together experiences from different regions and professional backgrounds, the book attempts to analys...
Ruiz Perez, M.
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Arnold, J.E.M.
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[Current issues in non-timber forest products research. Proceedings of the workshop research on NTFP. Hot Spring, Zimbabwe, 28 August - 2 September 1995]
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Current issues in non-timber forest products research. Proceedings of the workshop research on NTFP. Hot Spring, Zimbabwe, 28 August - 2 September 1995
The importance of forest products to households living in or near forests has been increasingly recognized. Estimates of numbers of people who in some way rely on forests, for survival or livelihoods, vary widely. Yet numbers alone do not reveal the forests' importance to diverse users. A typolog...
In the 1970s, it appeared that fuelwood use was growing rapidly, and this could have major adverse impacts on the resource and poor users. By the mid-1980s, revised assessments indicated that there was less of a problem than had been foreseen, and much less of a need for forestry interventions to...
This paper discusses the assumptions underlying non-timber forest product (NTFP)-based approaches. The authors examine conservation dimensions, highlighting the differences in perceptions among different stakeholder groups about what should be conserved, and development issues, including the role...
Arnold, J.E.M.
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Ruiz Perez, M.
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[The role of non-timber forest products in conservation and development]
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The role of non-timber forest products in conservation and development
The contributions that non-timber forest products (NTFPs) can make to rural livelihoods, and the fact that their use is less ecologically destructive than timber harvesting, have encouraged the belief that more intensive management of forests for such products could contribute to both development...
Arnold, J.E.M.
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Ruiz Perez, M.
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[Can non-timber forest products match tropical forest conservation and development objectives?]
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Can non-timber forest products match tropical forest conservation and development objectives?
The impact of woodfuel collection on forests has been controversial and its role in rural livelihoods and deforestation the subject of considerable debate. This study reviews the main dimensions of this discourse and the resulting responses from the forestry sector. It assesses new information th...
Arnold, J.E.M.
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Kohlin, G.
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Persson, R.
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Shepherd, G.
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[Fuelwood revisited: what has changed in the last decade?]
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Fuelwood revisited: what has changed in the last decade?
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...
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.
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Persson, R.
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[Reassessing the fuelwood situation in developing countries]
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Reassessing the fuelwood situation in developing countries