Poverty Reduction Through Non-Timber Forest Products: Personal Stories

Description

This book narrates personal stories of people from around the world who have used natural products, in particular Non Timber Forest Products (NTFPs) as a means to come out of poverty. Ending poverty remains a major worldwide challenge and is the number one goal under the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The book fills an important knowledge gap; that of personal stories of NTFP users. This has not been part of past publications on NTFPs which tend to focus on statistics and analysis of numbers, thus, the human faces of NTFP users are missing. Narrative stories provide a wealth of data about people and their experiences rather than aggregated classifications, categories and characteristics of poverty. The objective of this book is to illustrate the poverty alleviation potential of NTFPs through documenting the personal life stories of individuals and households that lifted themselves out of poverty through trade of NTFPs. This book is for all who are interested in poverty alleviation and NTFPs. Front Matter ....Pages i-xv Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Poverty Reduction Strategies and Non-timber Forest Products (Deepa Pullanikkatil, Charlie M. Shackleton)....Pages 3-13 Considering the Links Between Non-timber Forest Products and Poverty Alleviation (Charlie M. Shackleton, Deepa Pullanikkatil)....Pages 15-28 Front Matter ....Pages 29-29 The Gubinge of the Twin Lakes (Bruno Dann)....Pages 31-35 Açai Berry: Brazil’s Super Fruit (Geová Alves, Roberta Peixoto Ramos)....Pages 37-43 Honey Production in Urban Cameroon (Fonyuy Thomas Tata, Ojong Baa Enokenwa)....Pages 45-48 Cameroon’s Elixir: Palm wine (Joseph Ntoh, Ojong Baa Enokenwa)....Pages 49-52 A Full Circle (Zhou Rong, Saurabh Upadhyay)....Pages 53-57 Guatemala’s Nutritious Green Gold from the “Tree of Life” (Angela Izabela, Fajardo Barrientos, Giulia Muir, Julio Javier Madrid, Elena Baumanns, Luisa Vanderwegen)....Pages 59-64 Crafting Out of Poverty (Gira Ben, Ann-Cathrin Jöst, K. Rathna, Charlotte King, Saurabh Upadhyay)....Pages 65-67 The Uplifting Fragrance of Incense (Mira Das, Ann-Cathrin Jöst, K. Rathna, Charlotte King, Saurabh Upadhyay)....Pages 69-71 From Weed to Furniture (Chinnatai Rangasamy, Maya Mahajan, Aravind Radhakrishnan)....Pages 73-77 Truffles: The Precious Mushroom (Enrico Vidale)....Pages 79-81 The Hidden Master (Morris Foit, Deepa Pullanikkatil)....Pages 83-90 Busy as a Bee: Breeding Industrious Bees in Malawi (Arnold Kasumbu, Deepa Pullanikkatil)....Pages 91-97 Sustainable Pride: Camedor Palm (Isidro Hernández Becerra, Guillermo Rodríguez Rivas, Maite Lascurain-Rangel, Citlalli López-Binnqüist, Raymundo Dávalos-Sotelo)....Pages 99-103 From Leaves to Furniture, The Story of a Furniture Builder (Raul Sebastião Nhancume, Angelina R. O. Martins)....Pages 105-110 Malazi, The Palm Wine Tapper (Pedro Macie, Angelina R. O. Martins)....Pages 111-113 Allo: The Himalayan Giant Nettle (Gaur Singh, Yadav Uprety, Bijay Subedee, Ram P. Chaudhary)....Pages 115-118 Pine Needles: Sustainable Creativity (María Elsa Díaz, Ivania Andrea Cornejo)....Pages 119-123 Peruvian Brazil Nuts (Miguel Zamalloa Condori, Renatto Francisco Cánepa Vega, Kerry Maegan Hughes)....Pages 125-129 The Last Basket Weaver of São Mamede (Manuel A. N. Frutuoso, Helena Braganca)....Pages 131-134 Three Generations of Healers (Paul Cornelius Dlamini, Deepa Pullanikkatil)....Pages 135-142 Ugandan Bark Cloth: From Coffins to Handbags (Sarah Nakisanze, Deepa Pullanikkatil)....Pages 143-146 Weaving Together Livelihood and Culture in Maine, USA (Gabriel Frey, Marla R. Emery, Suzanne Greenlaw)....Pages 147-150 Front Matter ....Pages 151-151 Listening to the Stories (Deepa Pullanikkatil, Charlie M. Shackleton)....Pages 153-160