This title is no longer available from this publisher at this time. To let the publisher know you are interested in the title, please email bv-help@uchicago.edu.
This title is no longer available from this publisher at this time. To let the publisher know you are interested in the title, please email bv-help@uchicago.edu.
Sustainable Harvest and Marketing of Rain Forest Products
Sustainable Harvest and Marketing of Rain Forest Products
contributions by Scott Mori edited by Mark Plotkin and Lisa Famolare
Island Press, 1992 Cloth: 978-1-55963-169-3 | Paper: 978-1-55963-168-6 Library of Congress Classification SD387.S87S86 1992 Dewey Decimal Classification 338.1749870913
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | TOC | REQUEST ACCESSIBLE FILE
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Based on a Conservation International conference in Panama, Sustainable Harvest and Marketing of Rain Forest Products brings together the world's leading experts on rain forest development and sustainability.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Mark Plotkin is a renowned ethnobotanist and best-selling author of Tales of a Shaman’s Apprentice (in it’s 27th printing) and The Killers Within. For much of the past 30 years, he has worked with and learned from the ancient shamans in the rainforests of Central and South America, providing him with incomparable knowledge of healing plants and shamanic traditions. He formerly served as Research Associate in Ethnobotanical Conservation as the Botanical Museum of Harvard University, Director of Plant Conservation at the World Wildlife Fund and Vice President of Conservation International and Research Associate at the Department of Botany of the Smithsonian Institution. In Washington, D.C., Plotkin currently serves as President of the Amazon Conservation Team, a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting biological and cultural diversity of the tropical rain forest. Lisa Famolare is vice president of conservation policy and strategy Guianas and the Guianas regional program at Conservation International.
This book is based on papers presented at the conference on "The Sustainable Harvest and Marketing of Rain Forest Products", held in Panama City, Panama on June 20 to 21, 1991. This conference was coordinated by Conservation International (CI), a Washington, D.C., based nonprofit international environmental organization, with help from the Asociaci˜n Nacional para la Conservaci˜n de la Naturaleza (ANCON). Conservation International (CI) is a private, nonprofit organization dedicated to the conservation of tropical and temperate ecosystems and species that rely on these habitats for their survival.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Introduction
I
CONSERVING ETHNOBOTANICAL INFORMATION
1
Ethnobotany and Technology in the Northwest Amazon: A Partnership
Schultes,
Richard E.
2
The Secrecy of Indian Ethnobotanical Data Banks
Joly,
Luz Graciela
3
Five Hundred Years of Tropical Jungle: Indigenous Heritage for the Benefit of Humanity
Castillo,
Geodisio
4
Ethnobotanical Contributions to the Tramil-Program in the Caribbean Basin: The Case of Honduras
Lagos-Witte,
Sonia
5
The Use and Cultural Significance of the Secondary Forest Among the Wayapi Indians
Grenand,
Pierre
6
The Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta: A Case Study
Mayr,
Juan
7
Traditional Knowledge, Conservation, and “The Rain Forest Harvest”
Posey,
Darrell A.
II
THE POTENTIAL OF NONTIMBER FOREST PRODUCTS
8
Tropical Botanical Extractives
Duke,
James A.
9
Lecythidaceae and Myristicaceae: Two Tropical Families Providing Important Secondary Forest Products
Rotta,
Constanza La
10
The History of Nontimber Forest Products from the Guianas
DeFilipps,
Robert A.
11
Nontimber Forest Products of the Peruvian Amazon
Brack,
Antonio
12
Products from the Tropical Rain Forests of Mexico: An Ethnoecological Approach
Toledo,
Victor M.
Batis,
Ana I.
Becerra,
Rosalba
Martínez,
Esteban
Ramos,
Clara H.
13
Nontimber Forest Products in the Petén, Guatemala: Why Extractive Reserves Are Critical for Both Conservation and Development
Reining,
Conrad
Heinzman,
Robert
14
The Sustainable Management of Nontimber Rain Forest Products in the Si-a-Paz Peace Park, Nicaragua
Salick,
Jan
15
New Nontimber Forest Products from Western South America
Gentry,
Alwyn
16
Native Plant Products from the Arid Neotropical Species: Assessing Benefits to Cultural, Environmental, and Genetic Diversity
Nabhan,
Gary Paul
III
PALMS AND THEIR POTENTIAL
17
Babassu Palm Product Markets
May,
Peter H.
18
Nontimber Forest Products and Extractive Activities in the Middle Rio Negro Region, Brazil
Lescure,
Jean-Paul
Emperaire,
Laure
Pinion,
Florence
Renault-Lescure,
Odile
19
Colombian Palm Products
Bernal,
Rodrigo G.
20
The Economic Botany of Ecuadorean Palms
Pedersen,
Henrik B.
Balslev,
Henrik
21
The Jatata Project: The Pilot Experience of Chimane Empowerment
Rioja,
Guillermo
22
The Chimane Experience in Selling Jatata
Añez,
Jorge
IV
PLANTS AS MEDICINES
23
Ethnopharmacognostic Study of Kuna Yala
Gupta,
Mahabir P.
Jones,
Ana
Solís,
Pablo
Correa A.,
Mireya D.
24
Searching for Plants in Peasant Marketplaces
Martin,
Gary J.
25
The National Cancer Institute's Plant Collections Program: Update and Implications for Tropical Forests
Daly,
Douglas C.
26
Pharmaceutical Discovery, Ethnobotany, Tropical Forests, and Reciprocity: Integrating Indigenous Knowledge, Conservation, and Sustainable Development
King,
Steven R.
V
REACHING INTERNATIONAL MARKETS
27
The Brazil Nut Industry—Past, Present, and Future
Mori,
Scott A.
28
Trouble in Paradise: Practical Obstacles to Nontimber Forestry in Latin America
Pendelton,
Linwood H.
29
The Tagua Initiative in Ecuador: A Community Approach to Tropical Rain Forest Conservation and Development
Hidalgo,
Rodrigo Calero
30
The Tagua Initiative: Building the Market for a Rain Forest Product
Ziffer,
Karen
31
Nontimber Forest Products from the Tropics: The European Perspective
Niekisch,
Manfred
32
Ethnobiology and U.S. Policy
Moran,
Katy
33
Some General Principles and Strategies for Developing Markets in North America and Europe for Nontimber Forest Products
Clay,
Jason
Conclusions and Recommendations
INDEX
REQUEST ACCESSIBLE FILE
If you are a student who cannot use this book in printed form, BiblioVault may be able to supply you
with an electronic file for alternative access.
Please have the accessibility coordinator at your school fill out this form.