The ABC of NTFPs
There is, today, no standard, agreed definition of non-timber forest products . This article has followed that given by the FAO: 'Non-wood forest products include all goods of biological origin, as well as services, derived from forest or any land under similar use, and exclude wood in all its forms'. NTFPs can be harvested in their natural environment, or produced in forest plantations or on trees outside the forest. The products range from being used as food or food additives (nuts, mushrooms, wild fruits, herbs, spices, aromatic plants) and as plant materials (fibres, creepers and flowers) and plant derivatives (raffia, bamboo, rattan, cork and essential oils) to animals (game, bees) and animal products (honey, silk).
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Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
2000
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/46909 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/99591 |
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