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Dear readers, 

Welcome to a new issue, which pulls together the latest on NWFPs. Our opening article focuses on the release of a new FAO-EFI publication on wild forest products! In our in-depth section, read the latest from Zambia, Burkina Faso, Kazakhstan and more. Don't forget to email us with your NWFP news at non-wood-news@fao.org! 

New report: Wild forest products can help propel green growth in Europe

• Scientists call for protection of fruit and vegetable biodiversity
• Effects of harvest intensity on sustainable utilization of NTFPs
• Promoting traditional foods for human and environmental health: lessons from agroecology and Indigenous communities in Ecuador
• The pollination services of forests. Forest and landscape interventions and their benefits

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.