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Dear Readers,

In this first issue of the year, we share information about ongoing projects and initiatives on NWFPs implemented by FAO and partner organizations. Highlights include a FAO/ICRAF project on nutrition-sensitive NWFP value chains in Uganda, a FAO/TRAFFIC collaboration on mapping medicinal and aromatic plants data, and a FAO/CIFOR project on improving wild food statistics in Zambia, among others. Please don’t hesitate to send us your projects on NWFPs for inclusion in the next issue!

• From coffee to cosmetics, companies are looking for ways to protect the plants their products are made from

• The race to find wild relatives of food plants before it's too late

• Agroforestry program in Appalachia receives $590,000 in federal funding

• Value of Wild Food, Hunted and Fished, Examined in New Local Study

• Copenhagen Wants You to Forage on Its City Streets

Innovative businesses and entrepreneurship in non-wood forest produtcs sector: opportunities for the rural economy

27 February 2020

Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain)

3rd International Conference: Insects to Feed the World

3-5 June 2020

Québec, Canada

Non-wood forest products (NWFPs) are goods of biological origin other than wood, derived from forests, other wooded land and trees outside forests. NWFPs and similar terms such as “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.