Valuing Urban Non-Timber Forest Products
Understanding and marketing the full value of products from the urban forest, including non-timber forest products (such as nuts, fruits, saps, bark, florins, mushrooms, etc.) is critical for developing and sustaining healthy urban and community forests and forest related micro-enterprise opportunities.
Understanding and marketing the full value of products from the urban forest, including non-timber forest products (such as nuts, fruits, saps, bark, florins, mushrooms, etc.) is critical for developing and sustaining healthy urban and community forests and forest related micro-enterprise opportunities. Yet the uses, values and potential markets of these products from the Urban Forest have not been quantified or even explored. Our initial investigations in Baltimore,Maryland reveal that numerous NTFPs are currently collected, used and even sold. Moreover, the use of Urban NTFPs often involves economically disadvantaged and minority groups. NTFPs have important subsistence, economic and cultural values, and they deserve further study.
NUCFAC recommended award: NA-98-0332
P. Jahnige
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