Special Issue "Non-Wood Forest Products Management: Inventory, Planning, Governance, Marketing and Trade"

The International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO Units 4.04.04—Sustainable Forest Management Scheduling and 5.11-Non-Wood Forest Products, IUFRO Task Force on Unlocking the Bioeconomy and Non-Timber Forest Products) as well as the 19th Symposium on Systems Analysis in Forest Resources (SSAFR 2021) are sponsoring this Special Issue of Forests (http://www.mdpi.com/journal/forests).

We welcome the submission of manuscripts for publication in this Forests special issue (SI). There are a myriad of opportunities to unlock the full potential of NWFPs, such as creating new knowledge and tools to optimize the sustainable provision and profitability of NWFPs, fostering the development of market conditions for NWFPs, and developing economic and governance strategies for the better management of wild forest products—particularly in low-income countries. Thus, this SI aims at contributing to the dissemination of research endeavors involving the development of models, methods, processes, and decision support tools to address the inventory, planning, harvesting, governance, certification, marketing, and trade of NWFPs. This will be influential to strengthen the NWFP knowledge base and of research strategies to support the full encapsulation of NWFPs in the framework of the sustainable management of forest ecosystems. Papers submitted for publication in this Special Issue will undergo a rigorous peer review process with the aim of prompt and wide dissemination of research results and applications.

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2022.

More information at:  https://www.mdpi.com/journal/forests/special_issues/nonwood_forest_products

• Smith-Hall, C. and Chamberlain, J. (Eds.) 2023. The bioeconomy and non-timber forest products. London: Routledge, 270pp. https://www.routledge.com/The-bioeconomy-and-non-timber-forest-products/Smith-Hall-Chamberlain/p/book/9781032156262
   
• Madsen, S.T. and Smith-Hall, C. 2023. Wild harvesting or cultivation of commercial environmental products: a theoretical model and its application to medicinal plants. Ecological Economics 205: 107701. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2022.107701
   
• Sheppard J.P., Chamberlain J., Agúndez D., Bhattacharya P., Chirwa P.W., Gontcharov A., Sagona W.C.J., Shen H.L., Tadesse W., Mutke S. (2020) Sustainable Forest Management Beyond the Timber-Oriented Status Quo: Transitioning to Co-production of Timber and Non-wood Forest Products–a Global Perspective. Current Forestry Reports 6, 26-40. https://doi/10.1007/s40725-019-00107-1
   
• Chamberlain, James L.; Emery, Marla R.; Patel-Weynand, Toral. 2018. Assessment of nontimber forest products in the United States under changing conditions. General Technical Report SRS-GTR-232. USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station.  268p.  https://doi.org/10.2737/SRS-GTR-232

The Global NTFP Partnership Strategy

• Non-Timber Forest Products - Traditional Products and Technologies. Proceedings of the IUFRO Division 5 Research Group 5.11 Technical Sessions; 8-13 August 2005; Brisbane, Australia

• Donoghue, E.M.; Benson, G.L.; Chamberlain, J.L., tech. coords. 2004. Sustainable production of wood and non-wood forest products: Proceedings of IUFRO Division 5 Research Groups 5.11 and 5.12, Rotorua, New Zealand, March 11–15, 2003. General Technical Report PNW-GTR-604. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 120 p.

• COST Action FP1203 European non-wood forest products (NWFPs) network, http://www.nwfps.eu/ 
• European non-wood forest products (NWFPs) network, http://www.nwfps.eu/
• INCREDIBLE: Innovation Networks for Cork, Resins & Edibles (EU Thematic network), https://www.incredibleforest.net/
• Institute of Agricultural and Forest Management and Certification (IMAFLORA), http://www.imaflora.org/imaflora.php
• Network for Natural Gums and Resins in Africa (NGARA), http://www.ngara.org/index.php
• Nontimber Forest Products Exchange Programme, https://ntfp.org/
• NTFP Exchange Programme – Indonesia, https://ntfp.org/where-we-are/indonesia/
• UN FAO Nonwood Forest Products, http://www.fao.org/forestry/nwfp/en/