Origin products from African forests: A Kenyan pathway to prosperity and green inclusive growth?

Egelyng, Henrik; Bosselmann, Aske Skovmand; Warui, Mary Wanjiru; Maina, Fredah Wangui; Mburu, John; Gyau, Amos

doi:10.1016/j.forpol.2016.09.001

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“…Nevertheless, studies have demonstrated that demand potential for NTFP products can be considerable, with quality and environmental friendliness being the most important attributes [172,173]. Projects focusing on NTFP business development without considering the demand may fail since the increased supply of products cannot be absorbed, resulting in low prices of the products [82,93,104,121,127,153]. Further constraints persist due to often fluctuating NTFP markets and price oscillations [82,156,159], boom-bust cycles, or the presence of only one or few buyers [93,104].…”

Section: Market Characteristicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Projects focusing on NTFP business development without considering the demand may fail since the increased supply of products cannot be absorbed, resulting in low prices of the products [82,93,104,121,127,153]. Further constraints persist due to often fluctuating NTFP markets and price oscillations [82,156,159], boom-bust cycles, or the presence of only one or few buyers [93,104]. Under such conditions, it may be too big a risk for small-scale producers to professionalize their NTFP businesses and forsake other income-generating opportunities [95].…”

Section: Market Characteristicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For a variety of often high-value species, NTFP management plans have been developed which may offer an opportunity on a more local scale for the sustainable management and upgrading of the resource; for instance, by providing harvesting rules to avoid overexploitation [82,120,130,151]. However, overall supportive legislative and institutional frameworks with regard to NTFPs are often lacking or weak [93,95,97,106]. Where regulations with regard to access and marketing NTFPs do exist, lack of law enforcement and corruption are further obstacles to professionalizing NTFP value chains [86,144,145,176].…”

Section: Features Of the Broader Institutional Environmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Processing of Non-Timber Forest Products through Small and Medium Enterprises—A Review of Enabling and Constraining Factors

Meinhold

Darr

2019

Forests

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Research Highlights: This study reviews the available literature on processed non-timber forest products (NTFPs) in order to comprehensively identify relevant factors enabling or constraining their potential to contribute to rural development. Background and Objectives: NTFPs, such as wild foods, medicinal plants, and raw materials for handicrafts, make significant contributions to rural livelihoods. NTFPs can help fulfil households' subsistence and consumption needs, serve as a safety-net in times of crises, and provide cash income. In particular, the processing of NTFPs has often been suggested to positively influence sustainable economic development in rural areas. However, despite rising interest and recognition of the potential contributions of such industries as key sources of employment and their strategic role in overall growth strategies of developing countries, many NTFP processing enterprises remain in the informal sector and an in-depth understanding of the underlying factors is lacking. This review aims to identify enabling and constraining factors affecting NTFP processing enterprises. Materials and Methods: Using systematic review methodology, studies investigating commercialized, processed NTFPs and their economic impacts have been identified and the current evidence base with regard to NTFP processing and small and medium sized enterprise (SME) development synthesized. Results: Despite the diverse nature of NTFPs, a number of constraining and enabling factors affecting NTFP processing and commercialization were identified. The former includes aspects such as the lack of resource access (finances, skills, technologies, etc.), market information, and basic infrastructure; the latter, amongst others, the role of key entrepreneurs; and cooperation across the value chain, amongst producers, and among members of the institutional environment or an abundant resource base. Moving from small-scale NTFP commercialization in local markets to more mature NTFP value chains reaching export markets, the increasing role of cooperation and having a supportive institutional framework in place, becomes apparent. Conclusions: Overall, successful NTFP processing strongly depends on the socio-economic and environmental context in question, requiring a holistic approach tailored to the respective context and value chain.

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“…Nevertheless, studies have demonstrated that demand potential for NTFP products can be considerable, with quality and environmental friendliness being the most important attributes [172,173]. Projects focusing on NTFP business development without considering the demand may fail since the increased supply of products cannot be absorbed, resulting in low prices of the products [82,93,104,121,127,153]. Further constraints persist due to often fluctuating NTFP markets and price oscillations [82,156,159], boom-bust cycles, or the presence of only one or few buyers [93,104].…”

Section: Market Characteristicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Market Characteristicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Features Of the Broader Institutional Environmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Processing of Non-Timber Forest Products through Small and Medium Enterprises—A Review of Enabling and Constraining Factors

Meinhold

Darr

2019

Forests

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“…Nevertheless, studies have demonstrated that demand potential for NTFP products can be considerable, with quality and environmental friendliness being the most important attributes [16,17]. Business enterprises and projects based on NTFP business development models without considering the market consumption of product may fail since the increased supply of products cannot be absorbed, resulting in low prices of the products [10,14,[18][19][20][21]. Markets and Prices being dynamic and volatile, NTF products will have to face hurdles in gaining foothold many a times [18,22,23], like many other commercial products, market slump and boom-bust cycles, or the sudden hibernation and limited or few buyers [13,14] under such conditions, smallscale producers should be skillfully equipped with product diversification options readily in place within the NTFP enterprises and forsake other income-generating opportunities [24].…”

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confidence: 99%

Sustainability and Livelihoods

Srinivas¹

2021

Environmental Issues and Sustainable Development

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The word environmental sustainability of late has been used as catch word for illustrating the climate change and subsequent sequential impact of various aspects of environmental landscape that include soil management, gaseous exchange, nutrient cycling, carbon emission, rainfall etc., Interpretation of environmental changes are interpreted based on very few trends which need not necessarily cause short term or long term impacts. The impact assessment of a region fundamentally depends on region specific history of habitat management, human interference, agricultural practices, Economic livelihood activities which depend on available natural resources and seasonality of intensity of activities. In the present study efforts are made to indentify the major NTFP based livelihood economic activities and relate the habitat management aspects along with commercial invasion that became detrimental to environmental threshold to call for sustainability alarm. The livelihoods in various developing economies have different environmental impacts. Such assessment of economic activities have any real environmentally detrimental consequences or is it being essentially over emphasizing to create such fears have been analyzed.

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“…14 Moreover, poor households often obtain a small share of the final benefits due to high regulatory burden, weak bargaining power (Sunderland and Ndoye 2004) and exploitative market chains (Rasul et al 2008, Shackleton andGumbo 2010). 15 One strategy to expand market access for NTFPs would be to register them under Geographical Indication, an intellectual property recognized by the WTO (Egelyng et al 2016). 16 Such 'origin' markets, like certification schemes, will need support to be successful.…”

Section: Improving Market Access (M)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding Forests' Contribution to Poverty Alleviation: A Framework for Interventions in Forested Areas

Shyamsundar¹,

Ahlroth²,

Kristjanson³

et al. 2018

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The Policy Research Working Paper Series disseminates the findings of work in progress to encourage the exchange of ideas about development issues. An objective of the series is to get the findings out quickly, even if the presentations are less than fully polished. The papers carry the names of the authors and should be cited accordingly. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the authors. They do not necessarily represent the views of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/World Bank and its affiliated organizations, or those of the Executive Directors of the World Bank or the governments they represent.

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Origin products from African forests: A Kenyan pathway to prosperity and green inclusive growth?

Cited by 21 publications

References 16 publications

The Processing of Non-Timber Forest Products through Small and Medium Enterprises—A Review of Enabling and Constraining Factors

The Processing of Non-Timber Forest Products through Small and Medium Enterprises—A Review of Enabling and Constraining Factors

Sustainability and Livelihoods

Understanding Forests' Contribution to Poverty Alleviation: A Framework for Interventions in Forested Areas

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