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Article: Non-timber forest products in Peruvian Amazonia: changing patterns of economic exploitation.
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- Focus on Geography
- Article date:
- September 22, 2008
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Non-timber forest products (NFTPs) are important for societies all over the world and consist of foods, fuel, fibers, thatch, construction materials, latex, resin, gums, medicines, dyes, hallucinogens, and a plethora of other plant materials that come from forest ecosystems. That people living near these resources may be dependent on them is not surprising. What makes these products unique is that people living in or near the forests are holders of the main body of knowledge concerning their use (Nuemann and Hirsch 2000). Non-timber forest resources from Amazonia have provided economic benefits to people across the globe for centuries; we need look no further than the ...