Introduction: the need to understand the ecological sustainability of non-timber forest products harvesting systems

Shackleton, Charlie M; Ticktin, Tamara; Pandey, Ashok K

Title: Introduction: the need to understand the ecological sustainability of non-timber forest products harvesting systems
Creator: Shackleton, Charlie M
Creator: Ticktin, Tamara
Creator: Pandey, Ashok K
Subject: To be catalogued
Date Issued: 2015
Date: 2015
Type: text
Type: book chapter
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/433683
Identifier: vital:72994
Identifier: ISBN 9781317916130
Identifier: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781315851587-2/introduction-charlie-shackleton-tamara-ticktin-ashok-pandey
Description: The importance of non-timber forest products (NTFPs) in rural livelihoods in developing countries has become widely acknowledged over the last decade or so within the research and, increasingly, policy arenas, on the basis of numerous studies from around the world. Indeed, there has been a tenfold increase in the annual number of research papers published over the last 20 years (Figure 1.1). Most of these studies are from developing countries, but they do include developed countries (e.g. Kim et al. 2012, Poe et al. 2013, Sténs and Sandström 2013). Additionally, most are from rural areas, albeit with a smattering from urban settings (e.g. Kilchling et al. 2009, Poe et al. 2013, Kaoma and Shackleton 2014), although with increasing urbanization this distinction is blurred with significant markets for rural NTFPs imported into towns and cities (Lewis 2008, Padoch et al. 2008, McMullin et al. 2012). Two pertinent findings of many of these studies is that NTFPs generally contribute in many different ways to local livelihoods (see Chapter 2) and that when translated into income terms many households earn a significant proportion of their income (cash and/or non-cash) from NTFPs (Shackleton et al. 2007, Angelsen et al. 2014). In other words, they are not simply minor products of little value, but rather they are vital components of livelihoods, and in some instances, of local and regional economies. This requires that they, and the land on which they are found, are managed in a responsible manner to ensure that these livelihood benefits continue to accrue to rural, and often impoverished, people.
Format: 8 pages
Format: pdf
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Language: English
Relation: Shackleton, C.M., Ticktin, T. and Pandey, A.K., 2015. Introduction: the need to understand the ecological sustainability of non-timber forest products harvesting systems. In Ecological Sustainability for Non-timber Forest Products (pp. 3-11). Routledge
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