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Available in English, Portuguese, conservation and development: case Spanish and Dutch through: studies and lessons learnt. Salisbury, www.amazonyourbusiness.nl United Kingdom, Plantlife International. Argumedo, A. & Stenner, T. 2008. Association ANDES: conserving indigenous biocultural Butler, R.A. & Laurance, W.F. 2009. Is oil palm He, Jun, Zhou, Zhimei, Weyerhaeuser, H. & heritage. Gatekeeper, 137a. the next emerging threat to the Amazon? Xu, Jianchu. 2009. Participatory technology Trop. Conserv. Sci., 2(1): 1–10. development for incorporating non-timber Avocc.vou-Ayisso, C., Sinsin, B., forest products into forest restoration in Adcbgbidi, A., Dossou, G. & Van Damme, Christensen, G.A., Campbell, S.J. & Fried, J.S. Yunnan, southwest China. Forest Ecology P. 2009. Sustainable use of non-timber 2008. California's forest resources, and Management, 257(10): 2010–2016. forest products: impact of fruit 2001–2005: five-year Forest Inventory and harvesting on butyracea Analysis report. General Technical Report. Hurley, P.T., Halfacre, A.C., Levine, N.S. & regeneration and financial analysis of its PNW-GTR-763. Pacific Northwest Burke, M.K. 2008. Finding a “disappearing” products trade in . Forest Ecology Research Station, United States nontimber forest resource: using grounded and Management, 257(9): 1930–1938. Department of Agriculture (USDA) visualization to explore urbanization Forest Service. impacts on sweetgrass basketmaking in Ba NGai, Nguyen, Nguyen Quang Tan, Greater Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. Sunderlin, W.D. & Yurdi Yasmi. 2009. Chukwuone, N.A. 2009. Socio-economic The Professional Geographer, 60(4): Forestry and poverty data in Viet Nam: determinants of cultivation of non-wood 556–578. status, gaps and potential uses. Viet Nam. forest products in southern Nigeria. Regional Community Forestry Training Biodivers. Conserv., 18(2). id21. 2009. Are NTFPs a way out of poverty? Center for Asia and the Pacific (RECOFTC), id21 insights 77. Brighton, United Kingdom, Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) and Chun, Young Woo & Tak, Kwang-Il. 2009. Institute of Development Studies at the Viet Nam Forestry University. Songgye, a traditional knowledge system University of Sussex. May. for sustainable forest management in the (Please see page 50 for more information.) Bifarin, J.O., Ajibola, M.E. & Fadiyimu, A.A. Choson Dynasty of Korea. Forest Ecology 2008. Analysis of marketing bushmeat in and Management, 257(10): 2022–2026. Ingram, V., Awono, A., Schure, J. & Ndam, Idanre local government area of Ondo state, N. 2009. National Management Plan for Nigeria. Tropag & Rural database. Griscom, H.P., Griscom, B.W. & Ashton, M.S. Prunus africana in . Yaoundé, Academic Journals. African J. Agricultural 2009. Forest regeneration from pasture in CIFOR. 156 pp. Res., 3(10): 667–671. 12 refs. the dry tropics of Panama: effects of cattle, (Please also see page 64 for more exotic grass and forested riparia. Restor. information.) Brosi, B.J. 2009. The effects of forest Ecol., 17(1): 117–126. fragmentation on euglossine bee Jenkins, R.K.B., Andriamanana communities (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Grønhaug, Tom Erik, Silje Glæserud, Mona Rabearivelo, Chan Tak Chan Wai Mine Euglossini). Biol. Conserv., 142(2): 414–423. Skogsrud, Ngolo Ballo, Sekou Bah, Drissa Andre, Roma Randrianavelona & Diallo & Berit Smestad Paulsen. 2008. Christian Randrianantoandro, J. 2009. Brouwer, M. 2008. Amazon your business. Ethnopharmacological survey of six The harvest of endemic amphibians for Second ed. Bunnik, Netherlands, medicinal plants from Mali, West Africa. food in eastern Madagascar. Tropical Meindert Brouwer Partner in Ethnobiol. Ethnomed., 4: 26. Conserv. Sci., 2(1): 25–33. Communications. Amazon your business is the first guide to Guimarães, L.G.L. 2008. Yield evaluation of Jones, R. 2008. Bee-seiged – bees in warfare. sustainable products from the rain forests both the essential oil and the main United Kingdom, Bees for Development. and rivers of Amazon countries. Countries component of Eucalyptus citriodora It is often stated that bees have been used covered include Bolivia (Plurinational State Hook. leaves harvested in different in warfare and in this book Ray Jones has of), Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, seasons in the municipalities of Minas endeavoured to document some of the Peru, Suriname and Venezuela (Bolivarian Gerais State, Brazil. Botucatu, Brazil, many odd ways in which bees have been

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exploited. For example, in 400 BC the Greek Msuya, Tuli S. & Kideghesho, J.R. 2009. Pei, Shengji, Zhang, Guoxue & Huai, Huyin. historian Xenophan related that 10 000 The role of traditional management 2009. Application of traditional mercenaries were forced to retreat after practices in enhancing sustainable use knowledge in forest management: eating unripe honeycomb produced from and conservation of medicinal plants in ethnobotanical indicators of sustainable Rhododendron ponticum and Azalea the West Usambara Mountains, forest use. Forest Ecology and ponticum nectar, containing toxins that Tanzania. Tropical Conserv. Sci., 2(1): Management, 257(10): 2017–2021. April. caused them to suffer vomiting and 88–105. diarrhoea and made them unable to stand. Pimbert, M. 2009. Towards food Other bee products are discussed in Nantha, H.S. & Tisdell, C. 2009. The sovereignty: reclaiming autonomous chapters that include “Beeswax, magical, orangutan-oil palm conflict: economic food systems. London, United Kingdom, malicious and medicinal” and “Pollen: bee constraints and opportunities for International Institute for Environment food or chemical agent?” Jones’ book is an conservation. Biodivers. Conserv., 18(2): and Development (IIED). 70 pp. entertaining source of many obscure and 487–502. (Please see page 62 for more unusual anecdotes about bees and their information.) products. Nasi, R., Brown, D., Wilkie, D., Bennett, E., Tutin, C., van Tol, G. & Christophersen, Pradeep Chaudhry, Srivastava, R.L., Lakshmi, S. & Beena, J. 2009. Advances in T. 2008. Conservation and use of Pramod Kumar, Arvind Apte & Rao, N.S. medical treatment with -based wildlife-based resources: the bushmeat 2008. Role of non-timber forest products natural products. Recent Progress in crisis. CBD Technical Series 33. in sustaining rural livelihoods: a case Medicinal Plants, 24(1): 171–197. Montreal, Canada, Secretariat of the study from biggest state of India. Int. J. 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Bee products are considered at Khleifat, K.M., Al-Mustafa, A. & Al-Sharafa, NEW PUBLICATIONS FROM both subsistence and commercial K. 2008. Antifungal and antioxidant effects FAO’S NON-WOOD FOREST levels, and particular attention is given of extracts of some medicinal plant species PRODUCTS SERIES to the potential for further development growing in South Jordan. Bull. Fac. Agric., of managing wild bee species in 59(3): 241–248. 27 refs. NWFP Working Documents developing countries. The role of bees FAO’s NWFP Working Document series has for pollination of crops and the impact Theo, A., Masebe, T., Suzuki, Y., Kikuchi, H., a new volume – No. 7. The role of CITES in of managing bees on forestry and Wada, S., Obi, C.L., Bessong, P.O., Usuzawa, controlling the international trade in are presented. Wild M., Oshima, Y. & Hattori, T. 2009. products: implications for sustainable beekeeping techniques, Peltophorum africanum, a traditional forest management. production and marketing, and the South African medicinal plant, contains Forests, and forest products, are international trade in bee products are an anti HIV-1 constituent, betulinic acid. fundamental to the health and well-being described with further references and Tohoku J. Experimental Medicine, of the vast majority of the world’s human sources of additional information given. 217(2): 93–99. 38 refs. population. Technological innovations, and Using this publication, readers will specifically improvements in the global understand better the complexities and Topp-Jørgensen, E., Nielsen, M.R., Marshall, transport infrastructure, combined with opportunities for developing apiculture A. & Pedersen, U. 2009. Mammalian human migration have increased the use by rural livelihoods. density in response to different levels of and availability of forest products even Copies of this publication can be bushmeat hunting in the Udzungwa further. However, this use is not without a purchased from FAO’s Sales and Mountains, Tanzania. Trop. Conserv. Sci., cost – the populations of many wild species Marketing Group at: publications- 2(1): 70–87. have declined as a result of harvest for [email protected]. An electronic version international trade, some to the point that will shortly be available from FAO’s UNEP, FAO, UN Forum on Forests (UNFF). entire species are threatened with NWFP home page: 2009. Vital Forest Graphics. Nairobi, Kenya, extinction. www.fao.org/forestry/site/6367/en UNEP. Download from www.grida.no/_res/ In order to address international trade site/file/publications/vital_forest_graphics.pdf threats to wild species, governments

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established the Convention on International farmers and local communities in low- and los pueblos indígenas informaciones sobre Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna middle-income countries – about rural las hierbas y remedios para curar las and Flora (CITES). CITES entered into force livelihood opportunities resulting from NWFP enfermedades. Algunas plantas son todavía in 1975 and has over 160 member activities. It provides an overview of the uses of utilizadas y parecen ser muy eficaces. Una governments (Parties). This report explores NWFPs (section 2); insight into the gran cantidad de información ha sido reunida the role and impact of CITES on the trade in complementary contribution that they can en el libro, Medicine etniche e tradizionali forest products and sustainable forest make to sustainable livelihoods (section 3); an (Macro edizioni, 416 páginas, € 14.50), de útil management throughout its 30-year overview of NWFP trade (section 4); strategies consulta no sólo para los interesados en las history, with an emphasis on plant, and for successful NWFP trade and livelihoods curas alternativas, sino también para los specifically timber, species. (section 5); and support and services that can curiosos de las hábitos y maneras de vivir de An electronic version of this document help promote NWFPs as a livelihood source los pueblos que viven en zonas de las que will be available shortly from our NWFP (section 6). It provides advice as to how the poco se habla, y que guardan tradiciones y home page. Hard copies are available free right support and services can help promote usos que vale la pena conocer. La of charge from FAO’s NWFP Programme at NWFPs as a successful livelihood option. catalogación de apasionado científico y the address on the first page or by sending Sources of additional information and botánico de las hierbas y plantas an e-mail to [email protected]. technical support for any follow-up are medicinales, con relativos nombres identified at the end of the book científicos y usos, y la detallada explicación Marshall, E. & Chandrasekharan, C. 2009. de los usos medicinales, son acompañadas OTHER RECENT PUBLICATIONS Non-farm income from non-wood forest por curiosas narraciones históricas. products. Diversification booklet 12. Rural Por ejemplo, una de ellas se refiere a la State of the World’s Forests 2009 Infrastructure and Agro-Industries Division. medicina clásica de los árabes, origen de What will be the impact on forests of future Rome, FAO. fundamentales escuelas médicas, con economic development, globalized trade and Avicena, quien escribió los cinco libros del increases in the world’s population? The FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT: Canon de la medicina, o Albucazis, el más 2009 edition of the biennial State of the Rural Infrastructure and Agro-Industries grande cirujano árabe. Y el celebre World’s Forests looks forward, with the Division, FAO, Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, Paracelso quien, bien que intensamente theme “Society, forests and forestry: 00153 Rome, Italy. E-mail: [email protected] dedicado a la fármaco-química en pleno adapting for the future”. Part 1 summarizes (Please also see pages 30 and 73 for more siglo XVI, estaba invadido por una visión the outlook for forests and forestry in each information.) panteísta de lo creado, que atribuía una region, based on FAO’s periodic regional dimensión espiritual a los fenómenos forest sector outlook studies. Past trends Medicinas étnicas y tradicionales naturales, ejercitando la práctica de la and projected demographic, economic, ¿Quién sabe que en Afganistán la medicina signatura, filosofía que afirma que Dios institutional and technological changes are pashtún adopta todavía la cañafistula como habría puesto unos signos en las plantas, de examined to outline the scenario to 2030. laxante y la semilla de anís para curar las los cuales derivan sus capacidades de curar Part 2 considers how forestry will have to indigestiones? ¿Y qué los curanderos de la las enfermedades. Al fin, descubrimos que adapt for the future, focusing on: the global Amazonia usan, con óptimos resultados, la la granadilla era usada como febrífugo o outlook for wood products demand; uña de gato, planta curandera, en contra de para lenificar las úlceras, que en la Edad mechanisms for meeting the demand for la artritis, las hemorroides y las lesiones media se difundió desde Persia a todo el environmental services of forests; changes cutáneas? ¿O qué la dieta espacial de los Mediterráneo, y que de ella deriva el nombre in forest sector institutions; and astronautas americanos comprende también de la ciudad andaluza de Granada. developments in science and technology. la maca, la quínoa y la kiwicha, especies Brandolini, Giorgio V. 2008. Medicine This volume will serve as a source of herbáceas y alimentos tradicionales del etniche e tradizionali. Macro edizioni. 416 information to support forest-related policy mundo andino? Todo esto podría llamarse páginas. ISBN: 8-8750-7867-X; ISBN-13: and research. It is hoped that it will also medicina alternativa o herboristería, pero es 9788875078676 stimulate creative thinking and debate to más apropiado llamarlo medicina popular. enhance the future of the world’s forests. Estas prácticas curativas en épocas y zonas PARA MÁS INFORMACIÓN, DIRIGIRSE A: diferentes han substituido o integrado la Giorgio V. Brandolini, Orizzonte terra, 30 FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT: medicina moderna y convencional. Está Via Mazzini, I-24 128 Bérgamo, Italia. Ms Andrea Perlis, Forestry Department, FAO, reconocido que la técnica médica moderna Teléfono/fax: +39 035 219142; correo Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, 00153 Rome, Italy. no puede ignorar otras experiencias como electrónico: [email protected] o E-mail: [email protected]: estas, de las cuales – en todo caso – ella [email protected] p www.fao.org/ (Please also see pages 18-20 for misma desciende directamente, bajo more information.) muchos aspectos. Esto es lo que afirma Giorgio V. Brandolini, Non-farm income from non-wood forest ingeniero agrónomo de Bergamo y It matters not how a man dies, but how products divulgador cultural, quien ha viajado en unos he lives. The act of dying is not of The aim of this booklet is to raise awareness – de los rincones más remotos del mundo, importance, it lasts so short a time. among people and organizations that provide también por cuenta de organizaciones Samuel Johnson advisory business and technical support internacionales, en particular en Suramérica services to resource-poor small-scale y en el Oriente Medio, donde ha recogido de

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