In the Field

Company-Community Partnerships for Commercializing Non-Timber Forest Products in the Brazilian Amazon: Drivers, Problems, and Consequences Project Summary This project of the Universidade de São Paulo in Brazil aims to evaluate the motivations, opportunities, problems, and consequences of trade partnerships or agreements established between forest communities and corporations, for the commercialization of non-timber forest products (NTFPs). […]... Continue Reading

Development of a Management Plan for the Production of Mezcal from Maguey Papalotl (Agave cupreata) in Peasant Communities of the Montaña de Guerrero, Mexico Project Summary The project seeks to draw guidelines for sustainable management of a non-timber forest product of great importance for poor farmers that inhabit Mexican tropical dry forests: Agave for mezcal […]... Continue Reading

Conservation and Use of Bursera spp. in the Tropical Dry Forests of Oaxaca: The Role of Markets and Certification in the Management of Non-Timber Forest Products The main objective of this project is to examine the ecological and market dynamics of some non-timber forest products of economic importance from the dry tropical forests of Oaxaca, Mexico. One […]... Continue Reading

The Ecology, Management and Marketing of Non-Timber Forest Products in the Alto Rio Guamá Indigenous Reserve (Eastern Brazilian Amazon) Ethnobotanical studies have shown that indigenous people use hundreds of rainforest plant and animal species for subsistence purposes. It is more difficult, however, for forest peoples to support community development with the sustainable harvest and sale […]... Continue Reading

Building Sustainable Marketing Models for Non-Timber Forest Products: A Critical Link to Environmentally Benign Socio-Economic Development in Extractive Reserves in Acre, Brazil Heightened awareness of environmental destruction in the Brazilian Amazon has focused attention on developing environmentally benign land use practices which meet the socio-economic needs of local populations. The harvesting of non-timber forest products […]... Continue Reading

Integrating Biological Conservation and Economic Development: Finding the Linkages in the Southeastern Rainforests of Madagascar In late 1991, Razafimamonjy, a plant ecologist with the National Center for Research on the Environment in Madagascar, and local residents near the Ranomafana National Park in southeastern Madagascar began working together to accomplish three broad objectives: to increase the […]... Continue Reading