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Dear readers,

This last issue of the year focuses on the recent launch of our new publication on Sustainable Cricket Farming, and looks forward to 2021 with an eye on the forthcoming NWFP policy forum among other highlights. Wishing you a safe and healthy holiday season. Don’t forget to update us on your projects, workshops or new research at: Non-Wood-News@fao.org!

Q&A from Dr. Yupa Hanboonsong and Patrick Durst on new guide to cricket farming 

Yupa Hanboonsoong is a Professor of Entomology at Khon Kaen University, Thailand & Patrick Durst is a retired Senior Forestry Officer for FAO

• Bug bites: Edible insect production ramps up quickly in Madagascar
• Edible insects and lab-grown meat are on the menu
• Global Climate Fund approves $160 million to support FAO-led projects
• Kenyan farmers can bank on tree seeds
• ‘Mind-boggling variety’: the food crusaders preserving India’s heritage
• 5 reasons we need to start nurturing – and eating – weeds
• India urgently needs to streamline multi-billion rupees worth NTFP market
• Contribution of NTFPs to Togolese economy to increase

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.