"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. 10/07, 2007-10-11

PRODUCTS
1. Acorn belt in the USA
2. Agarwood: Oudh – the sweet smell of tradition
3. Artemesia annua: Artemisinin ‘promising’ as leishmaniasis treatment
4. Bamboo chip-based particleboard developed
5. Bamboo: Rodents ravage 177 villages in Mizoram, India
6. Bamboo bras are the latest in eco chic, says style bible Vogue
7. Honey: Production of honey on the decline in Kenya
8. Honey: Uganda risks losing EU deal
9. Honey: Drought takes toll on honey supplies in Australia
10.Maca (Lepidium peruvianum): Ethnobotanist’s discovery benefits U.S. consumers and Peruvian economy
11.Medicinal plants: A colouring book about medicinal plants of North America
12.Moringa (Moringa oleifera): Malunggay a “miracle vegetable”
13.Rattan in the Philippines: Kidapawan rubber farm gets foreign grant
COUNTRY INFORMATION
14. Canada: Forestry funding coming to Chapleau
15. Canada: NOSM gets $1.1M to ‘bioprospect’ forest
16. India: Govt plans first ever Forest Policy
17. Liberia: CI wants eco-tourism promoted
18. Philippines: Bulacan aggressively promotes bamboo farming
19. South Africa: Traditional medicine for HIV to go on trial
20. South Africa: Drug companies looting SA’s bounty of medicinal plants
21. Vietnam: New butterflies, snakes and orchids discovered in Green Corridor
22. Vietnam: Partnership producing natural products from medicinal plants being filmed for BBC
23. Vietnam: Handicraft exporters target key markets
News
24. Amazon chic
25. ‘Biopiracy’ requires reasoned treatment
26. Central Africa: Wangari wants trust fund for Congo Basin Forest
27. Congo Basin: Plugging NTFPs in the Congo Basin
28. Environmental certification is essential to the economic growth of Amazonia, study concludes
29. UN General Assembly backs indigenous peoples’ rights
30. Wildlife: National parks no longer preserve wildlife
31. Wildlife trade: One of the world’s most endangered species found in fridge
32. Wildlife trade: Despite progress against trafficking, world still hungry for exotic creatures
EVENTS
33. Training course: Strengthening livelihoods through beekeeping
34. Rural development and poverty reduction
35. Climate Change and Biodiversity in the Americas
36. International Symposium “Underutilized Plants for food, nutrition, income and sustainable development”
REQUESTS
37. Request for collaboration: Ecotourism in Bhutan
38. Request for contributions to the next issue of Non-wood News
39. Request for information: Unique environmental facts about African nations
LITERATURE REVIEW AND WEB SITES
40. The Overstory
41. Other publications of interest
42. Web sites and e-zines
MISCELLANEOUS
43. Amazon Rainforest at risk from initiative to connect South American economies
44. UNESCO Adds 23 Reserves to Man and the Biosphere Network
45. World Conservation Union: 16,300 species threatened