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dc.creatorForestry Economics and Policy Division
dc.date2023-10-04T14:07:28Z
dc.date2023-10-04T14:07:28Z
dc.date2009
dc.date2019-05-30T10:14:14.0000000Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-28T01:42:39Z
dc.descriptionBehind the new-look Non-Wood News is the usual wealth of information from the world of NWFPs. The Special Features section covers two different aspects of NWFPs: a specific product (bamboo) and a developing market (cosmetics and beauty care). Bamboo is versatile: it can be transformed, for example, into textiles, charcoal, vinegar, green plastic or paper and can also be used as a food source, a deodorant, an innovative building material and to fuel power stations. Reports indicate that natural c osmetics and beauty care are a huge global market, with forecasts indicating an annual growth of 9 percent through 2008. The Special Feature on Forest cosmetics: NWFP use in the beauty industry builds on this and includes information industry interest and marketing strategies (consumers are being drawn to natural products and thus their content is emphasized). As can be seen from the articles on shea butter in Africa and thanakha in Myanmar, many societies have always used and benefited from nat ural cosmetics. This issue includes other examples of traditional knowledge, such as the uses of the secretions of a poisonous tree frog in Brazil and the use by the traditional healers in India of allelopathic knowledge.
dc.formatapplication/pdf
dc.identifier1564-3689
dc.identifier1020-3435
dc.identifierhttps://openknowledge.fao.org/handle/20.500.14283/I0987E
dc.identifierhttp://www.fao.org/3/a-i0987e.pdf
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/343943
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relationNon-wood news
dc.relation1020-3435|1020-3370|1020-3370|10203435
dc.rightsFAO
dc.titleNon-Wood News
dc.titleNon-Wood News
dc.titleAn information bulletin on non-wood forest products
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