Non-timber forest products (NTFPs) such as nuts, leaves, resins, barks and honey have medicinal, food, energy and cultural uses. This…
Authors: Ingram, V.
Publication Research Theme Products and Trade
Micro-Geopolitics: Capitalising Security in Laos’s Golden Quadrangle
Publication Year : 2014
Enclosure, dispossession and displacement loom large in current debates about the recent boom in transnational farmland deals, and about Chinese…
Authors: Dwyer, M. B.
Less oil but more money! Artisanal palm oil milling in Cameroon
Publication Year : 2014
The present study was carried out in four of the seven oil palm production basins generated during the Fonader-sponsored smallholder…
Authors: Nkongho, R.N.; Nchanji, Y.K.; Tataw, O.; Levang, P.
The timber legality verification system and the voluntary partnership agreement (VPA) in Indonesia: Challenges for the small-scale forestry sector
Publication Year : 2014
Indonesia is at the forefront of countries implementing voluntary partnership agreements (VPA) with the EU in order to meet legal…
Authors: Obidzinski, K.; Dermawan, A.; Andrianto, A.; Komarudin, H.; Hernawan, D.
Ecology and sustainable management of the African aphrodisiac bark, Pausinystalia johimbe
Publication Year : 2014
Pausinystalia johimbe (K.Schum) Pierre ex Bielle is a tree native to coastal forests of Central-Africa, with a range extending from…
Authors: Sunderland, T.C.H.; Cunningham, A.B.; Tchoundjeu, Z.; Ngo-Mpeck, M.-L.
The geographic and sectoral patterns of large-scale farmland investments in sub-Saharan Africa
Publication Year : 2014
Following the food and energy price crises of the mid 2000s, sub-Saharan Africa has become one of the largest recipients…
Authors: Schoneveld, G.
Forest and tree product value chains
Publication Year : 2014
This special issue is dedicated to forest and tree product value chains. Forest and tree products enter people’s lives as…
Authors: Ingram, V.; Levang, P.; Cronkleton, P.; Degrande, A.; Leakey, R.; van Damme, P.
The Africa – China timber trade: Diverse business models call for specialized policy responses
Publication Year : 2014
China has become the largest importer of tropical wood and is the destination of more than three-quarters of Africas timber…
Authors: Weng, X.; Putzel, L.; Kandulu, M.M.; Ekman, S.-M.S; Zafinikamia, M.-L.B.; Assembe-Mvondo, S.; Cerutti, P.O.; Lescuyer, G.
Smallholder Specialization Strategies along the Forest Transition Curve in Southwestern Amazonia
Publication Year : 2014
Rural specialization strategies can be examined within the forest transition framework. We compared smallholder livelihood strategies between neighboring southwestern Amazonian…
Authors: Duchelle, A.E.; Zambrano, A.M.A.; Wunder, S.; Börner, J.; Kainer, K.A.