Into the wild: disentangling non-wood terms and definitions for improved forest statistics

Muir, Giulia; Sorrenti, S.; Vantomme, Paul; Vidale, Enrico; Masiero, Mauro

doi:10.1505/146554820828671553

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“…At the global level, there is still no systematic framework to collect data on NWFPs because: (i) there is no universally agreed definition of NWFPs; (ii) hunting and gathering activities, often informal, are not easy to capture through formal statistics; and (iii) a huge number of forest products and species can be considered as NWFPs and should be included in such statistics (Sorrenti 2017;Muir et al 2020). Moreover, as forest and farmland sources are often assessed differently by government forestry and agriculture departments, a proper synthesis of the overall value of tree products and services across these sources is hard to achieve (de Foresta et al 2013 related activities, both formal and informal, represent more than a million jobs for a total population of about 13 million, and over 80 percent of rural Zambian households depend heavily on natural resources for their livelihoods (Turpie et al 2015).…”

Section: Box 2 Non Wood Forest Products (Nwfps)mentioning

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Contribution of forests and trees to food security and nutrition

Gitz¹,

Pingault²,

Meybeck³

et al. 2021

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Forests, trees and agroforestry play a key, often undervalued, role to support food security and nutrition (FSN), in its four dimensions (availability, access, utilization and stability).• Forests, trees and agroforestry provide:(i) diverse and nutritious foods (such as nuts, oils, vegetables -leaves, flowers, roots -, fruits, bushmeat, fish, herbs, saps, mushrooms, tubers and insects), and feed for livestock;(ii) bioenergy for cooking and boiling water;(iii) income and employment (both formal and informal); and (iv) ecosystem services indispensable for agriculture and food production, now and in the future.• All these contributions need to be better considered by policies aiming at strengthening food security and nutrition, towards SDG2.• The contributions of forests and trees to FSN allow a broader and richer understanding of the notion of people's "forest dependence", with local to national and global dependences.• Maximizing the contributions of forests, trees and agroforestry to FSN requires policy coherence and integrated landscape approaches.• Agricultural policies need to better integrate the specificities of tree crops and the multiple benefits provided by the integration of trees in farming systems.

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Section: Box 2 Non Wood Forest Products (Nwfps)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Contribution of forests and trees to food security and nutrition

Gitz¹,

Pingault²,

Meybeck³

et al. 2021

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“…Many non-timber forest species undergo a "dynamic process of domestication" that transgresses their collection from the wild and often includes their simultaneous cultivation on farms [98]. Certainly, there is a progression of sourcing forest foods that originate in natural habitats of gathering fruits and proceeds to growing fruit around homes.…”

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Rediscovering the Contributions of Forests and Trees to Transition Global Food Systems

Chamberlain

Darr

Meinhold

2020

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The importance of forests to safeguard agricultural production through regulating ecosystem services such as clean water, soil protection, and climate regulation is well documented, yet the contributions of forests and trees to provide food for the nutritional needs of the increasing human population has not been fully realized. Plants, fungi, and animals harvested from forests have long provided multiple benefits—for nutrition, health, income, and cultural purposes. Across the globe, the main element of “forest management” has been industrial wood production. Sourcing food from forests has been not even an afterthought but a subordinate activity that just happens and is largely invisible in official statistics. For many people, forests ensure a secure supply of essential foods and vital nutrients. For others, foraging forests for food offers cultural, recreational, and diversified culinary benefits. Increasingly, these products are perceived by consumers as being more “natural” and healthier than food from agricultural production. Forest-and wild-sourced products increasingly are being used as key ingredients in multiple billion dollar industries due to rising demand for “natural” food production. Consumer trends demonstrate growing interests in forest food gathering that involves biological processes and new forms of culturally embedded interactions with the natural world. Further, intensifying calls to “re-orient” agricultural production provides opportunities to expand the roles of forests in food production; to reset food systems by integrating forests and trees. We use examples of various plants, such as baobab, to explore ways forests and trees provide for food security and nutrition and illustrate elements of a framework to encourage integration of forests and trees. Forests and trees provide innovative opportunities and technological and logistical challenges to expand food systems and transition to a bioeconomy. This shift is essential to meet the expanding demand for secure and nutritious food, while conserving forest biodiversity.

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“…NTFPs are the most utilized term referring to this kind of produce (non-wood forest products and minor forest products are some utilized denominations), some of those terminologies have a local legal definition, but there is no consolidated formal elucidation with global acceptance. A recent FAO analysis on such problematic suggests that it is unlikely that a single universal term and definition would be coined and globally accepted due to "cultural and contextual differences regarding how these products are perceived in different countries/regions and by different entities" [2]. This fact could domains; 2-the study area was in Brazilian territory; 3-the species used are native to Brazil; and 4-the works evaluated non-timber forest products.…”

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Non-Timber Forest Products in Brazil: A Bibliometric and a State of the Art Review

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Non-timber forest products (NTFPs) are a consolidated source of income and acquisition of inputs from forest environments. Therefore, the objective of this work was to carry out a collection of publications on NTFPs in Brazil, until 2019, available in the Scopus database, presenting a bibliometric review and the state of the art of this theme from the evaluation of these publications, discussing the challenges of Brazilian legislation on NTFPs. After screening the articles of interest, 196 documents were evaluated, in which they were observed institutions and authors, analyzing networks of citations and terms used, areas of forest sciences and sciences that encompass the most explored biomes and the most studied species. The results showed that the concern to research on NTFPs in Brazil began in the 1990s, with an increase in the number of publications over the years. Besides that, the research on NTFPs is multidisciplinary, with emphasis on the areas of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science. For better regulation of the process of exploration and management of NTFPs in Brazil, the need to create specific legislation that takes into account factors such as the phytogeographic domain the explored area, producing species, and the products and co-products obtained was observed.

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Into the wild: disentangling non-wood terms and definitions for improved forest statistics

Cited by 14 publications

References 63 publications

Contribution of forests and trees to food security and nutrition

Contribution of forests and trees to food security and nutrition

Rediscovering the Contributions of Forests and Trees to Transition Global Food Systems

Non-Timber Forest Products in Brazil: A Bibliometric and a State of the Art Review

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