Non-Timber Forest Products
Complementary ecosystem services from multiple land uses highlight the importance of tropical mosaic landscapesBackgroundTropical agricultural landscapes feature a mosaic of diverse land uses, yet the ecosystem service bundles and materials they provide to rural households remain poorly understood. In northeastern Madagascar, shifting cultivation for hillside rice production and agroforests for cash and subsistence crops have largely replaced old-growth forests. The landscape consists of forest fragments, small-scale vanilla agroforests, rice paddies, and subsistence farming plots at various stages of the shifting cultivation cycle. Open access copy available |
Reforesting Bare Hills in Vietnam: Social and Environmental Consequences of the 5 Million Hectare Reforestation ProgramBackgroundAvailable with subscription or purchase |
Leveraging the value chain-landscape governance nexus for non-wood forest products and tropical forest restorationBackgroundOpen access copy available |
Manual práctico: biofertilización y bioprotección de cafe (Coffea arabica) con aplicación de hongos micorrízicos arbuscularesEl desarrollo de tecnología sobre la biofertilización en plantas clonales micorrizadas de café podría constituir un sistema más eficiente para el incremento de los rendimientos por hectárea, control de plagas y enfermedades. Este sistema emplea tecnologías limpias para el medio ambiente, mejorando la fertilidad de los suelos, buscando reducir los costos de producción y mejorar los niveles productivos de las fincas cafetaleras. Este manual esta dirigido a todos los productores cafetaleros de la región amazonica de San Martín y el resto del Perú, para mejorar e incrementar la productividad de los cafetales, basados en las variedades caturra, pache y nacional y haciendo uso de consorcios micorrízicos eficientes en la biofertilización y bioprotección de plantones de café. Open access copy available |
Técnicas de cosecha y manejo postcosecha de frutos de aguajeLa depredación Indiscriminada de la que vienen siendo objeto las plantaciones naturales de aguaje, por las prácticas de extracción (tumbado de palmeras) que se utilizan para cosechar los frutos, está trayendo como consecuencia la disminución de la población femenina de esta especie y probablemente, la de algunos ecotipos o variedades. Estas practicas atentan contra la regeneración natural de la especie y hoy en dia es cada vez mas dificil encontrar estas plantaciones cerca de los centros poblados. La guía recopila las ventajas y desventajas de las diferentes técnicas de cosecha expuestas en talleres de capacitación en campo, resaltándose dos técnicas de cosecha seleccionadas por los agricultores que participaron en los talleres. -- Open access copy available |
Soil Biological Activity, Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics in Modified Coffee Agroforestry Systems in MexicoBackgroundCoffee agroforestry systems bring a plethora of economic, social, and ecological benefits. Specifically, they aid soil biological activity. In Mexico, due to cost and production challenges, coffee is being replaced by avocado plantations. The impact of coffee agroforestry systems on specific soil biological characteristics and processes is not fully understood. Nor are the impacts of avocado plantations on soil biological activity. Open access copy available |
Shaded-Coffee: A Nature-Based Strategy for Coffee Production Under Climate Change? A ReviewBackgroundCoffee agroforestry systems are a natural climate solution that are used to reduce the impact of coffee cultivation on ecosystem health. Coffee generates over $200 billion in income globally each year, so ensuring the efficiency and success of cultivation is crucial for human livelihood. Coffee agroforestry systems are often variable, and there lacks a compiled knowledge base about these systems and practices. Open access copy available |
Small scale eucalyptus cultivation and its socioeconomic impacts in Ethiopia: A review of practices and conditionsBackgroundIn order to support growing populations in developing countries such as Ethiopia, people turn to fast-growing crop and timber species to support their livelihoods. Eucalyptus is introduced to Ethiopia for its fuel and construction as well as for its high growing rate and low maintenance costs. There is a current conflict around Eucalyptus cultivation, with many smallholder communities depending on it but clear environmental issues and expansion across farmland boundaries. Open access copy available |
Tropical fruit production depends on wild insect communities: bees and lychees in ThailandBackgroundMost of the agricultural crops around the world depend on wild animal/insect pollination. Insect pollination is the most common in tropical regions, and is something that tropical tree fruits such as the native Asian lychee (Litchi chinensis). The roles of wild insects on lychee production in northern Thailand has not yet been evaluated. Available with subscription or purchase |
The ecology and management of the Miombo woodlands for sustainable livelihoods in southern Africa: the case for non-timber forest productsBACKGROUNDOpen access copy available |
