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Considering the Links Between Non-timber Forest Products and Poverty Alleviation

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Poverty Reduction Through Non-Timber Forest Products

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The debates around the value and importance of non-timber forest products (NTFPs) are complex and ongoing. The complexity is a result of many factors, including the wide variety of species, products and uses, as well as the variety of constituencies and disciplines each seeing advantage from ‘co-opting’ the importance of the contribution of NTFPs to their own areas of interest and concern. Conservationists are interested in NTFPs because their combined high value in many settings offers a potential alternative to the destruction of forests by either commercial logging or their widespread conversion to other land uses.

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Shackleton, C.M., Pullanikkatil, D. (2019). Considering the Links Between Non-timber Forest Products and Poverty Alleviation. In: Pullanikkatil, D., Shackleton, C. (eds) Poverty Reduction Through Non-Timber Forest Products. Sustainable Development Goals Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75580-9_2

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