NTFP: Its all in the name!

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• From: "EVANS, MR. BARRY" <BARRY@palm.botany.uq.oz.au>
• Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1993 17:27:50 +0300
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Following Boris Zeide's "Pipe dreams" of 27/8 to the network I
thought memebers might like to pitch in on the following question:

What do we call these "things" from the forest which are not timber?
I've seen them described as:

Non-timber forest products; Nontimber forest products; Nonwood forest
products; Under-exploited forest products; minor forest products;
under-utilised forest products; lesser-known forest products; forest
fruit and nuts; alternative rainforest products; and even "native
jungle crops"!

It seems we can't even agree what to call them. Is there a
published standard?

On a more serious note, I have been working with NTFPs/NWFPs/.....
(you see my point now!) in the Solomon Islands. I would like to
present and discuss the results at a conference. Is there a suitable
conference scheduled for mid-1994?

Barry Evans
University of Queensland
Barry Evans
Dept of Botany
University of Queensland
QLD 4072
Tel: +61 7 365 2773
Fax: +61 7 365 1699
e-mail: barry@palm.botany.uq.oz.au

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