Sustaining incomes from non timber forest products: introduction and synthesis

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cg.coverage.countryBolivia
cg.coverage.countryBrazil
cg.coverage.countryCameroon
cg.coverage.countryPeru
cg.coverage.countryZimbabwe
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2BO
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2BR
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2CM
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2PE
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2ZW
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionLatin America
cg.coverage.regionSouth America
cg.coverage.regionMiddle Africa
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africa
cg.creator.identifierBruce M Campbell: 0000-0002-0123-4859
cg.identifier.urlhttps://www.cifor-icraf.org/knowledge/publication/715
cg.journalInternational Tree Crops Journal
cg.subject.ciforNON-TIMBER FOREST PRODUCTS
dc.contributor.authorJong, W. de
dc.contributor.authorCampbell, Bruce M.
dc.contributor.authorSchroder, J.M.
dc.date.accessioned2012-06-04T09:06:12Zen
dc.date.available2012-06-04T09:06:12Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/18207
dc.titleSustaining incomes from non timber forest products: introduction and synthesisen
dcterms.abstractReasons for the decline of people’s income from any given non-timber forest product are: over-harvesting of the resource base; capturing of the business by local elite; domestication of the product; decreased demand; or manufacturing of substitutes. In all of these scenarios, income for local collectors is likely to diminish or disappear altogether. This Special Issue of the International Tree Crops Journal brings together a number of studies from Bolivia, Peru, Zimbabwe and Cameroon assessing the sustainability of incomes from non-timber forest products once their commercialisation has already been achieved. The studies conclude that avoiding over-harvesting of a commercially successful forest product will in most cases require some restraints on harvesting, usually through developing rules and regulations at the appropriate level. These institutional arrangements are also needed to avoid exclusive income capturing by powerful elites. Sustained production can also be achieved through intensified management or cultivation. Maintaining market demand requires constant marketing effort, or adjusting the products supplied to different demands. Even so, there is always the possibility that others that provide a higher consumer satisfaction or are produced more efficiently will replace commercially successful forest products. A constant effort is thus needed to develop new products, for which the entire production-marketing may have to be set up.en
dcterms.bibliographicCitationde Jong, W., Campbell, B.M., Schroder, J.M. 2000. Sustaining incomes from non timber forest products: introduction and synthesis . International Tree Crops Journal 10 (4) :267-275.en
dcterms.extentp. 267-275
dcterms.issued2000
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.subjectincomeen
dcterms.subjectinstitutionsen
dcterms.subjectnon-timber forest productsen
dcterms.subjectsustainabilityen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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