Abstract
Non-timber forest products (NTFPs) are biological resources of plant and animal origin, harvested from natural forests, manmade plantations, wooded land, farmlands and trees outside forests or domesticated. These products are vital sources of income, nutrition and sustenance for many forest-based communities around the world. This study tries to review available and accessible literatures on role of NTFPs in sustainable forest management including sociological approach, economic approach, ecosystem approach, technological approach and its related services (biodiversity conservation and carbon sequestration). The use of NTFPs has received attention in light of their perceived potential to address both poverty reduction and tropical forest conservation. It was suggested that better management and utilization method has to be set for diversifying products benefit for the local community. Key words: NTFPs, sustainable, biodiversity, forest management.
Highlights
Non timber forest products (NTFPs) are, in broadest sense, any biological resources collected from wild by rural people for direct consumption/income generation on a small scale (Shackleton and Shackleton, 2004)
Interests in NTFPs was predicated upon a few assumptions these include: commercial exploitation of NTFPs is less ecologically destructive than timber harvesting, and has greater potential for sustainable forest management; local forest users exploit forest resources wisely and sustainably and NTFPs will more directly benefit people living near forest compared to timber harvesting (Ruiz Perez and Arnold, 1997)
Dry land forest management and silviculture incorporate a set of practices that can facilitate the expansion, regeneration, growth and functional utility of forests, and the human activities essential to the conservation and sustainable development of forest and woodland resources in drylands, helping these resources to become ecological and environmental buffers that tone down the often harsh climatic conditions and their impacts
Summary
Non timber forest products (NTFPs) are, in broadest sense, any biological resources collected from wild by rural people for direct consumption/income generation on a small scale (Shackleton and Shackleton, 2004). They include wild edible foods, medicinal plants, floral greenery, horticultural stock, fiber of plants, fungi, resins, fuel wood, small diameter wood used for poles, carvings etc. EARO and IPGRI (2004) argued that contribution of NTFPs to livelihoods of rural communities is likely to persist as long as the resources are exploited on sustainable basis This has led in a global move towards developing management of natural forest for the benefits of local communities (Hobley, 1996). CS is defined as an increase in Carbon stocks other than in the atmosphere (Huston and Marland, 2002; Namayanga, 2002)
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