FAO’s NWFP-Digest: World of Non-Wood Forest Products

FAO’s NWFP-Digest-L is a free e-mail journal that covers all aspects of non-wood forest products. All issues of the Digest may be found on FAO’s NWFP home page: www.fao.org/forestry/site/12980/en.

Issue No. 3/08, 2008-04-17

• PRODUCTS
  Bamboo: Dell develops an ecological bamboo computer
  Bamboo ‘silk’ protects against UV and bugs
  Ginseng helps cancer patients reduce fatigue, increase energy
  Medicinal plants in Ethiopia: Ethnomedicinal plant knowledge and practice of the Oromo ethnic group
  Medicinal plants in India: Valley medicinal plants hold employment potential
  Medicinal plants in USA: Native medicinal herb could become New Mexico cash crop
  Moringa oleifera: Student researchers study natural water purifier
  Moringa oleifera: Body Shop launches a Moringa bath and body range
  Moringa oleifera: ‘Malunggay better oil source’
  Mulberry juice drink unveiled
  Mulberry: Indian silk board weaves new mulberry breeds
  Mulberry: Silkworms give Philippine farming town a makeover
  Mushrooms in South Africa: New giant mushroom causes a stir
  Mushrooms in Ukraine: Mushroom prices are 1.5 times as high as in 2007
  Pine bark extract’s osteoarthritis potential expanded
  Rattan in Indonesia: Artificial rattan gains favour
  Seabuckthorn: Clinically proven treatment offers help to rosacea sufferers
• COUNTRY INFORMATION
  Brazil: Plans to control access to Amazon
  Canada: Season not so sweet for maple syrup producers
  Ghana: Government taking action to reduce pressure on forests
  Guyana: Forest investment deal boosts Guyana conservation
  India: Bamboo industry eyes slice of $7.5 bn world mkt
  India: Chinese technology likely for State bamboo sector
  India: Cane and bamboo project launched for North East
  India: Bugs to boost Assam’s muga silk production
  India Lac farming boost to tribal families
  Indonesia: The sweetest way to save forests
  Namibia: Community Forestry Project in Omaheke
  Portugal: A revival of the region’s cork producing history
  Sri Lanka: Ceylon cinnamon a money spinner
  UK: Campaign to save forest reptiles
  USA: Untapped resource – maple sugar
  Vietnam: Ecological tourism development to protect forest biodiversity
  Vietnam: Fragments of grace
  Zambia: Two tree crops provide Zambians with nutrition and fuel
• NEWS
  American Botanical Council announces Peruvian Amazon and Andes Ethnobotany Ecotour
  Biodiversity key to fighting climate change
  CMS Gorilla Agreement enters into force
  E-discussion forum on underutilized species
  How is a tree valued?
  Is the answer to HIV-associated diarrhea found in South America’s rain forest?
  The buzz on energy drinks
  World Challenge 2008 (Deadline: 31 May 2008)
• EVENTS
  IBRA International Workshop on Queen rearing and artificial insemination
  2008 International Scientific Conference on Tropical Rainforests and Agroforests under Global Change
  Provoking Change: Strategies to promote forest users in the Amazon
• REQUESTS
  Request for funding: Participatory forest management for herbal medicinal production in Peru
• LITERATURE REVIEW AND WEB SITES
  Indigenous and traditional peoples and climate change
  Introducing ‘Journal of Medicinal Plant Research (JMPR)’
  Quality and adulteration problems in certain raw medicinal plants of central India
  The Tropical Agriculturalist – Beekeeping
  Other publications of interest
  Web sites and e-zines

  (Cf. news of 2008-04-18, 2008-02-28 and 2008-01-25.)

Source

NWFP-Digest-L, 2008-05-09.

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