Non wood forest product outlook study for Asia and the Pacific: towards 2010
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The 'major importance of minor forest products' has been increasingly recognised as information about the utilisation, trade and management of NWFPs has grown. This study provides an overview of the significance of NWFPs in the Asia-Pacific region, current and likely future trends of product availability and management, the importance of NWFPs to people and economy, and efforts to achieve sustainable forest management in the region. Data regarding NWFPs are scarce, often conflicting and unreliable, even for major commercial species such as rattan, bamboo and tree resin. Yet NWFPs provide important livelihood products and employment for perhaps hundreds of millions of people in the region. Many of these products are traded commercially, but the residents of forest areas are most dependent upon NWFPs for subsistence uses such as food, spices, edible oils, medicines, fodder, forage, stall bedding, green manure, construction material, household utensils, fibre, ornamentation and rituals. B
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The 'major importance of minor forest products' has been increasingly recognised as information about the utilisation, trade and management of NWFPs has grown. This study provides an overview of the significance of NWFPs in the Asia-Pacific region, current and likely future trends of product availability and management, the importance of NWFPs to people and economy, and efforts to achieve sustainable forest management in the region. Data regarding NWFPs are scarce, often conflicting and unreliable, even for major commercial species such as rattan, bamboo and tree resin. Yet NWFPs provide important livelihood products and employment for perhaps hundreds of millions of people in the region. Many of these products are traded commercially, but the residents of forest areas are most dependent upon NWFPs for subsistence uses such as food, spices, edible oils, medicines, fodder, forage, stall bedding, green manure, construction material, household utensils, fibre, ornamentation and rituals. B
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