By Charlie M. Shackleton, Ashok K. Pandey, Tamara Ticktin
There is becoming wisdom approximately and appreciation of the significance of Non-timber wooded area items (NTFPs) to rural livelihoods in constructing nations, and to a lesser volume, constructed nations. besides the fact that, there's additionally an assumption at the a part of policy-makers that any harvesting of untamed animal or plant items from the forests and different ordinary and changed ecosystems needs to be harmful to the long term viability of goal populations and species. This publication demanding situations this concept and exhibits that whereas examples of such unfavourable affects definitely exist, there also are many examples of sustainable harvesting platforms for NTFPs.
The chapters assessment and current coherent and scientifically sound info and case reports at the ecologically sustainable use of NTFPs. in addition they define a basic interdisciplinary method for assessing the sustainability of NTFP harvesting platforms at varied scales. quite a lot of case reviews is integrated from Africa, Asia and South the United States, utilizing plant and animal items for foodstuff, crafts, textiles, medicinal drugs and cosmetics.
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G. logging, land uses with NTFP livestock grazing, fire, harvest agriculture…) NTFP Uncontrolled Highly tended wild or management collection from wild; maintained open-access resource populations; farmed or domesticated; secure tenure Local ecological Harvest is a new Harvest is a historical knowledge activity, no LEK activity, highly developed yet detailed and sophisticated LEK systems exist Harvest: principles and methods Governance systems Insecure tenure, institutional arrangements are misfits for system, no monitoring or enforcement and enforcement (see Chapter 15) 35 Secure tenure, institutional arrangements fit with social–ecological system, effective monitoring and enforcement (see Chapter 15) invaded populations than in non-invaded populations (Ticktin et al.
2008) ‘Links between the local trade in natural products, livelihoods and poverty alleviation in a semi-arid region of South Africa’, World Development 36, pp. , Ballance, A. K. (2002) ‘Use patterns and value of savanna resources from three rural villages in South Africa’, Economic Botany 56, pp. , Shanley, P. and Ndoye, O. (2007b) ‘Invisible but viable: recognising local markets for non-timber forest products’, International Forestry Review 9, pp. 697–712 Shively, G. , Smith-Hall, C. and Wunder, S.