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. 2/08, 2008-02-27

PRODUCTS
1. Acai berries make jump from food into skin care
2. Acorns: The acorn is a big part of nature’s plan
3. Bamboo: Panasonic showcases green products in Abu Dhabi
4. Bamboo: Greener gear for skiers and boarders
5. Bamboo in Bangladesh: Rats destroy crops in Bangladesh
6. Bamboo in India: Big plans for bamboo industry
7. Bamboo in the Philippines: Bamboo as carbon sequester, income booster
8. Bark cuts methane emission from cows
9. Brazil nuts: The green gold of the Amazon
10. Bushmeat: The high price of wild meat
11. Bushmeat: 750-pound restaurant shipment of headless rats seized in London
12. Edible insects: Beastly bugs or edible delicacies
13. Ginseng: Canada’s UWO gets $11 million for health research
14. Honey: German scientist identifies special properties in manuka honey
15. Honey: Cosmetics based on honey will be manufactured in Bashkiria, Russia
16. Medicinal plants: Cancer drug to be produced in UAE
17. Medicinal plants: German herbal cure market under strain
18. Medicinal plants: New Yardstick for medicinal plant harvests
19. Medicinal plants – Plants for Life: Medicinal plants under threat
20. Medicinal plants ‘facing threat’
21. Moringa: Buy a Miracle Tree campaign
22. Sandalwood: Fragrance house sources sustainable ingredients
23. Shea butter: An essential luxury
24. Shea butter: Fair Trade certification spreads to cosmetics
25. Tea tree oil: Cropwatch Statement
26. Tree resin: Insulation retrofitters push ‘green’ alternative
27. Vegetable ivory: Stylishly sustainable jewellery
COUNTRY INFORMATION
28. Bhutan: Wild ginseng grows endangered
29. Burkina Faso: Organic shea butter and cotton
30. Cambodian conservation work — not just a man’s world
31. Cameroon: Carbon traders, not conservationists, could save Cameroon rainforest
32. Canada: Funding Aboriginal startups
33. Fiji: Sandalwood rip-off
34. Russia: Forest Plan of Republic of Karelia
35. Uganda: Development should not affect forests
NEWS
36. “Biodiversity is vital for human survival and livelihoods,” FAO Deputy Director-General says
37. Collectors claim trade treaty is obstructive
38. Plants to raise biological activity in space
EVENTS
39. Roundtable on Sustainable Forests National Technical Workshop and Meeting
40. 1er Seminario – Taller desarrollo de productos no maderables del bosque”
41. 2008 INBAR Bamboo Study Tour
42. 4th World Congress on Medicinal and Aromatic Plants–using plants to benefit people
REQUESTS
43. Request for contributions to the next issue of Non-wood News
LITERATURE REVIEW AND WEB SITES
44. Microfinance and forest-based small-scale enterprises
45. New report: Production and Market of Turpentine in China
46. Other publications of interest
47. Web sites and e-zines
MISCELLANEOUS
48. Climate focus ‘ignores wildlife’
49. Israel: 20 centuries-old oak trees found chopped down in Galilee