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IUFRO World Series Vol. 21 Sustainable Forest Management International Union of Forest Research Organizations Union Internationale des Instituts de Recherches Forestières Internationaler Verband Forstlicher Forschungsanstalten Unión Internacional de Organizaciones de Investigación Forestal IUFRO World Series Vol. 21 Sustainable Forest Management and Poverty Alleviation: Roles of Traditional Forest-related Knowledge Editors: John A Parrotta Liu Jinlong Sim Heok-Choh Extended abstracts from the conference held in Kunming, China, 17-20 December 2007 Jointly organized by the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) Task Force on Traditional Forest Knowledge, the Chinese Academy of Forestry (CAF) and the Asia-Pacific Association of Forestry Research Institutions (APAFRI) ISSN 1016-3263 ISBN 978-3-901347-67-2 IUFRO, Vienna 2008 Recommended catalogue entry: Sustainable Forest Management and Poverty Alleviation: Roles of Traditional Forest-related Knowledge. Extended Abstracts from the conference held in Kunming, China, 17-20 December 2007, jointly organized by the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) Task Force on Traditional Forest Knowledge, the Chinese Academy of Forestry (CAF), and the Asia-Pacific Association of Forestry Research Institutions (APAFRI). John A. Parrotta, Liu Jinlong, Sim Heok-Choh (editors). Vienna, IUFRO, 2008 – 223 p. – (IUFRO World Series Vol. 21). ISSN 1016-3263 ISBN 978-3-901347-67-2 Cover photos (from left to right): 1. Tapping of resin by local people in Cambodia - Ly Chou Beang & Lao Sethaphal 2. Woman tapping wild rubber tree in Indonesia - Zuraida 3. Collecting vines by indigenous tribal woman in the Philippines - A.B. Ella Published by: IUFRO Headquarters, Vienna, Austria, 2008 © 2008 IUFRO and the editors Available from: IUFRO Headquarters Secretariat c/o Mariabrunn (BFW) Hauptstrasse 7 1140 Vienna Austria Tel.: +43-1-8770151-0 Fax: +43-1-8770151-50 E-mail: [email protected] Web site: www.iufro.org Price: EUR 20.- plus mailing costs Printed by: Ferdinand Berger & Söhne GmbH, 3580 Horn, Austria CONTENTS Page Introduction and Meeting Report 1 Extended Abstracts Mouals’ traditional resource utilization in the Sundarbans of Bangladesh: a case of mangrove forest people Md. Mustafa Kamal Akand and A B M Rasheduzzaman 5 Food insecurity and dependency of Chepang communities on wild edible plants. Rishi Bastakoti, Lila Nath Sharma and Vivek Dhar Sharma 8 The role of Íbú ódó sacred pools in preserving riparian forest structure and diversity along the Ouèmé and Okpara Rivers of Central Benin Natalie Ceperley 11 Traditional knowledge on utilization of natural resources among the Penan communities in northern Sarawak, Malaysia Paul P.K. Chai, Endela Tipot and Jacqualine Henry 16 Participatory vegetation analysis in a forest landscape in the Nilgiri Biosphere Researve U.M. Chandrashekara 19 Poverty and biodiversity loss: rhetoric and reality Pashupati Chaudhary, Kamal P. Aryal and Kamaljit S. Bawa 23 Traditional knowledge: intellectual property rights and benefit sharing Chee Yoke-Ling 27 The impact of the Tibetan traditional culture on ecological protection in the Tibetan Altiplano Chen Xutu and Xin Yongquan 28 Traditional knowledge on firewood and fodder values corresponds to scientific assessment Nakul Chettri and Eklabya Sharma 31 Envisioning ecological and cultural place for sustainable livelihoods: pre-step to the realization of traditional forest-related knowledge Cho Kyoung Mann 36 Songgye, Korea's traditional knowledge for sustainable forest management Young-Woo Chun and Kwang-Il Tak 39 Diversity and ethnozoological study of small mammals in villages surrounding the Pendjari Biosphere Reserve in northern Benin C. A. M. S. Djagoun and B. Sinsin 41 iii Almaciga resin gathering by indigenous people of Palawan Province in the Philippines Arsenio B. Ella 46 Indigenous collection and marketing of wild honey and almaciga resin in Palawan: the NATRIPAL experience Arsenio B. Ella 49 Impacts of knowledge based decision support systems on forest management NourEldin Mohamed Elshaiekh Osman and Peter Charles Woods 52 Traditional weather forecasting for sustainable agro-forest management and poverty alleviation in Ilocos Norte – Philippines Evangeline S. Galacgac and Criselda M. Balisacan 55 Funds for community development through traditional knowledge: an experience of community forestry in Nepal Sishir Gautam and Surya B. Magar 58 Traditional knowledge of Tharu of Nepal on medicinal plants and healthcare systems Kalpana Ghimire and Rishi Bastakoti 61 Multifunctional uses of indigenous and exotic woody species as fodder trees, fuel source, and in soil fertility restoration in the Ethiopian Highlands. Glatzel Gerhard and Mekonnen Kindu 64 Integrating traditional knowledge systems, local institutions, and forest conservation for sustainable forest management in Indian Himalayas Hemant K .Gupta 67 Knowledge innovation in agroforestry landscape: participatory technology development for the Sloping Land Conversion Program in Yunnan, southwest China He Jun, Xu Jianchu, Zhou Zhimei and Horst Weyerhaeuser 71 Traditional knowledge on forest resource management by Kasepuhan people in the upland area of West Java, Indonesia Latipah Hendarti and Youn Yeo-Chang 73 Indigenous catechu production and survival strategies of producers in Bangladesh: a forest resource management study M. Zulfiquar Ali Islam and M. Khursheed Anwar 77 Protecting Africa’s rainforest through the use of indigenous knowledge and Western techniques: examples from Nigeria and Ghana Valentine Udoh James 80 Challenges in applying traditional forest-related knowledge in sustainable forest management and poverty alleviation in Malaysia: a case study of a fish farming project with the Jakun community in the south-east Pahang peat swamp project Kamal Solhaimi Fadzil and Khali A. Hamzah 82 iv An overview of land use and management in Bala Village Ke Suo 85 Towards best practices incorporating traditional knowledge and western science in Clayoquot Sound Inae Kim and Ronald Trosper 86 Co-management of biodiversity: Traditional knowledge and forest rights of the Soliga in South India Siddhartha Krishnan, Nitin Rai, C. Made Gowda, Sushmita Mandal and Siddappa Setty 88 Traditional Forest-related Knowledge and the Current International Forest Policy Andrey Laletin 91 Utilization of macrofungi by some indigenous communities for food and medicine in Peninsular Malaysia Lee Su See, Chang Yu Shyun and Noraswati Mohd. Nor Rashid 94 Building on traditional shifting cultivation for rotational agroforestry: experiences from Yunnan, China Luohui Liang, Lixin Shen and Yang Xinkai 98 Enhancing the value of forest traditional knowledge through forest certification Lim Hin Fui 101 The effects of traditional culture on the modes of forest management in ethnic communities: a case study of a Miao village Liu Shunqing, Lai Li, Guan Yuhe and Wang Tie 104 Traditional Forest-Related Knowledge and its Implications for China’s Forestry Development – development anthropological perspectives Liu Jinlong 107 Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Forest Management in the Jinuo Society Chunlin Long, Yilan Zhou, Dayuan Xue and Zhe Chen 110 The role of traditional beliefs of the ‘White Horse’ Tibetan people in biodiversity conservation at Bai-Shui-Jiang Nature Reserve Luo Yaofeng and Liu Jinlong 111 Local agricultural biodiversity knowledge and adaptive capacity to household consumption and market preferences in southern Cameroon William A. Mala, R. Prabhu, C. J. Geldenhuys and M. C. Diaw 114 Traditional indigenous knowledge based conservation and livelihood strategies for sustainable forest resources management in the uplands of Bangladesh Khaled Misbahuzzaman and Chailau Marma 116 v An enabling policy framework for harmonizing traditional forest-related knowledge with sustainable forest management standards V.P. Mohan 118 Knowledge and use of local plants from ‘Simpukng’ or forest gardens among the Dayak community in East Kalimantan Elok Mulyoutami, Ratna Rismawan and Laxman Joshi 121 The economic value of indigenous environmental knowledge in ensuring sustainable livelihood needs and protecting local ecological services: a case study of Nagarhole National Park, India C. Nanjundaiah 124 Contemporary and traditional concepts of spatial units in Korean mountainous landscape: understanding of landscape and memory, GIS data, and community forests (Maeulsoop – the Korean village groves) Jeong-Hak Oh, Jino Kwon and Joon-Hwan Shin 127 Beyond the traditional-scientific knowledge divide: multi-actor knowledge systems and deliberative interface in natural resources management in Nepal Hemant Ojha, Ram Chhetri and Netra Timsina 130 Strategies for conservation of sacred forests of Kolli Hills, Tamil Nadu, India: a study on botany, ecology and community interactions E.D.Israel Oliver King 133 The protection of traditional knowledge from commercial exploitation and income generation in the Western Ghats, South India Paimpillil Sebastian Joseph and K. Shadanan Nair 137 Application of traditional knowledge in forest management: ethnobotanical indicators for sustainable forest use Pei Shengji 139 Perceptions of sclerophyllous evergreen oak forest by indigenous communities in northwest Yunnan, China – consequences for sustainable forest management in mountainous regions Peng Shengjing, Sun Zhenhua and Ou Xiaokun 142 Traditional practices on the utilization of Kakawate (Gliricidia sepium (Jacq.) Kunth ex Walp.) for sustainable development in the Philippines Alfredo R. Rabena 146 Knowledge systems: the basis for sustainable
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