As part of a multi-collaborator research project on the potential of non-timber forest product (NTFP) trade for conservation and development the authors designed tools to assess the effects of NTFP trade on people’s livelihoods and the environment. To assess livelihood outcomes of NTFP trade they...
Kusters, K.
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Belcher, B.
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Ruiz Perez, M.
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Achdiawan, R.
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[A method to assess the outcomes of forest product trade on livelihoods and the environment]
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A method to assess the outcomes of forest product trade on livelihoods and the environment
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
Over the past few years, a number of Chinese researchers have collaborated with CIFOR and INBAR/IDRC in a systematic, two-phase socio-economic study of the bamboo sector in China. This proceedings contains a synthesis from the main research findings from research programs related to socioeconomic...
Fu Maoyi
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Ruiz Perez, M.
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Yang Xiaosheng
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[Proceedings of Workshop on China Social Economics, Marketing and Policy of the Bamboo Sector, 16-18 June 1999, Beijing]
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Proceedings of Workshop on China Social Economics, Marketing and Policy of the Bamboo Sector, 16-18 June 1999, Beijing
Most NWFP research is site specific and sectoral, thus reducing its potential value for policy analysis and development actions. The main challenge for future research is to develop general frameworks within which to structure dispersed studies and to transform them into useful policy- and action...
Ruiz Perez, M.
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[A conceptual framework for CIFOR’s research on non-wood forest products]
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A conceptual framework for CIFOR’s research on non-wood forest products
Belcher, B.
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Ruiz Perez, M.
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[An international comparison of cases of forest product development: overview, description and data requirements]
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An international comparison of cases of forest product development: overview, description and data requirements
In this paper, the outcomes of a consultative meeting on non-timber forest products are reported and discussed. The meeting was organised by CIFOR and IUCN's Eastern Africa Regional Office on 15 and 16 September 1995 in Nairobi, Kenya, with the aim of discussing research priorities and informatio...
Ruiz Perez, M.
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Broekhoven, A.J.
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Aluma, J.W.R.
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Iddi, S.
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Lowore, J.D.
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Mutemwa, S.M.
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Odera, J.A.
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[Research on non-timber forest products in selected countries in Southern and East Africa: themes, research issues, priorities and constraints]
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Research on non-timber forest products in selected countries in Southern and East Africa: themes, research issues, priorities and constraints
Ruiz Perez, M.
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Katz, E.
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Jong, W. de
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Michon, G.
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[Research strategies for non-timber forest products. 5th International Congress of Ethnobiology, Nairobi]
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Research strategies for non-timber forest products. 5th International Congress of Ethnobiology, Nairobi
A number of databases on non-timber forest products (NTFP) have been produced but any information available is mostly scattered and poorly advertised. It is necessary to survey the existence of such databases to provide information to interested and potential actors on what is available on NTFP, ...
Asbjornsen, H.
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Angelsen, A.
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Belcher, B.
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Michon, G.
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Ruiz Perez, M.
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Wijesekara, V.R.P.
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[Proceedings of the Workshop Cultivating (in) Tropical Forests?: the Evolution and Sustainability of Systems of Management between Extractivism and Plantations, 28 June – 1 July 2000, Kraemmervika, Lofoten, Norway]
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Proceedings of the Workshop Cultivating (in) Tropical Forests?: the Evolution and Sustainability of Systems of Management between Extractivism and Plantations, 28 June – 1 July 2000, Kraemmervika, Lofoten, Norway