Conservation & Society, Vol. 2, No. 2, SPECIAL ISSUE: NON-TIMBER FOREST PRODUCTS (July-December 2004), pp. 217-234 (18 pages) Non-timber forest products (NTFP) have been frequently studied as a means ...

Non-timber forest products (NTFP) such as fuelwood, fodder, fruit, medicinal plants, and small timber are important to the rural poor in India. The traditional usufruct rights that the poor enjoyed ...

The cost of forest restoration is a considerable obstacle, sparking discussions in recent years about how to make it economically viable. Since native wood management, carbon credits, and payment for ...

Industrial-scale logging and resource exploitation continue to plague the South American rainforests, contributing to their systematic destruction. Today, indigenous inhabitants and other local ...

Various projects claim to alleviate poverty and strengthen the rural economy in Punjab, but the Non-Timber Forest Produce (NTFP) sector has been continuously neglected, despite its potential to ...

For some, the term non-timber forest products might sound new but what the term represents is generations old and very much in the public domain. Non-timber forest products have been the mainstay of ...

Communities surrounding the Eastern Plains Landscape (EPL) make their living from subsistence farming and the collection of forest products such as resin and honey. In order to preserve these ...

Various projects claim to alleviate poverty and strengthen the rural economy in Punjab, but the Non-Timber Forest Produce (NTFP) sector has been continuously neglected, despite its potential to ...

Coastal redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) has a narrow and fragmented distribution in western North America. Extreme resistance to fire and fungi allows redwoods to live more than 2,000 years and become ...

Madagascar eased a two-year-old restriction on the domestic sale of stockpiles of so-called ordinary wood — non-precious timber logged from natural forests. The government will not issue any new ...