- Title
- Positioning non-timber forest products on the development agenda
- Creator
- Shackleton, Charlie M, Pandey, Ashok K
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2014
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180992
- Identifier
- vital:43679
- Identifier
- xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2013.07.004"
- Description
- Non-timber forests products (NTFPs) provide multiple livelihood benefits to local communities and regional and national economies. And yet this knowledge is rarely drawn upon in debates around and design of poverty alleviation or land use policies, strategies and projects. Unless the accumulating wealth of empirical evidence can be translated into policies and approaches at higher levels, and integrated into poverty alleviation programmes, it will have little impact on local and national poverty profiles. In this paper we propose and briefly discuss eight steps to facilitate integration of NTFPs into the development agenda, for the benefit of local communities. These include: (1) proper inventory of NTFP stocks, (2) research on NTFP ecology and sustainable harvest levels, (3) introduction of extension services for NTFPs, (4) inclusion of NTFPs in land management and trade-off decisions, (5) integration of NTFPs into sectoral policies, (6) ensuring NTFP commercialisation is not at the expense of local livelihood needs, (7) promoting security of access and use, and (8) examination of local contextual drivers of unsustainable use. Each is presented along with examples or proposals towards implementation.
- Format
- computer, online resource, application/pdf, 1 online resource (7 pages), pdf
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Forest Policy and Economics, Shackleton, C.M. and Pandey, A.K., 2014. Positioning non-timber forest products on the development agenda. Forest Policy and Economics, 38, pp.1-7, Forest Policy and Economics volume 38 p.1 2014 1389-9341
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RU DST/NRF SARChI for Interdisciplinary Science in Land and Natural Resource Use for Sustainable Livelihoods
RU Department of Environmental Science
SDG 16. Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
Shackleton, Charles Michael (Distinguished Prof)
SDG 15. Life On Land
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