Non-wood Forest Products Update

NWFP Update

May 2020 / Issue #19

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Dear Readers,

In this issue you will find updates from FAO and partners around the globe. Clement Okia and Erik Acanakwo open the issue with news from the FAO-ICRAF workshop on nutrition-sensitive wild product value chains. Also featured, a project on Chilgoza pine in Pakistan and on innovation in the Mediterranean from our colleagues at EFI.

Q&A with Clement Okia & Erik Acanakwo

Q: What was the aim of this joint FAO-ICRAF initiative?

A: The workshop was aimed at disseminating findings of a project that FAO implemented in collaboration with the World Agroforestry (ICRAF). The overall goal of the project was to assess and improve key wild product value chains with the objective of enhancing food and nutrition security, household income and biodiversity in the west-Nile sub-region of northern Uganda.

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Revolutionize food production system or face mass deforestation

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Sustainable Forest Management Beyond the Timber-Oriented Status Quo

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Uganda: FAO & ICRAF host workshop on nutrition-sensitive wild product value chains

FAO has been working with the World Agroforestry (ICRAF) in Uganda to implement a project on : “wild product value chains in Uganda” to assess and begin to improve key wild food value chains such as shea and balanites.

Pakistan: Empowering local communities for sustainable management of chilgoza pine ecosystem

The Restoration Initiative (TRI) project in Pakistan focuses on restoration, protection and sustainable management of the Chilgoza pine forests ecosystem to provide global environmental benefits, enhanced resilience and livelihoods to local stakeholders.

Barcelona: Businesses gather to discuss boost for rural economy

Entrepreneurs, start-ups and established businesses shared ideas and inspiration on innovation and entrepreneurship for NWFPs in a highly energised seminar which took place in Barcelona’s Sant Pau Art Nouveau site on 27 and 28 February.

Multimedia

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New startups you don’t want to miss| H2020 INCREDIBLE PROJECT

Last month Etifor, spin-off of the University of Padua, organized the acceleration service dedicated to the 5 winners of the INCREDIBLE Open Innovation Challenge. When business and passion meet environmental consciousness and humanity, something wonderful always happen! Find out more about the 5 teams by watching the video interviews.

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Wild orchids

Cymbidium orchids are more than just wild plants in China. They are inextricably linked with the country’s culture. But this rich blooming of human response to orchids that has endured for millennia is fragile, and as Cymbidium orchids increasingly vanish from the wild so too do the words and knowledge that humans have about them

Events

World Bee Day

20 May 2020

International Day for Biological Diversity

22 May 2020

Literature

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Non-wood forest products (NWFPs) are goods of biological origin other than wood, derived from forests or other wooded land. NWFPs and similar terms such as "wild", “minor”, “secondary” and “non-timber” forest products (NTFPs) have emerged as umbrella expressions for the vast array of both animal and plant products other than wood derived from forests or forest tree species. Unlike the term “NWFPs”, “NTFPs” also includes fuelwood and small woods used for domestic tools and equipment.

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CONTACT
For more information visit: http://www.fao.org/forestry/nwfp/en/ or contact us at: non-wood-news@fao.org

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