scholarly journals Cactus Nurseries and Conservation in a Biosphere Reserve in Mexico

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 96-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
María T. Pulido ◽  
Consuelo Cuevas-Cardona
Keyword(s):  
Ex Situ Conservation ◽  
Biosphere Reserve ◽  
Forest Products ◽  
Ex Situ ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
The People ◽  
Probability Of Success ◽  
Non Timber Forest Products ◽  
Knowledge And Practice

Documenting how socio-ecosystem conservation knowledge and practice arise and are modified are issues of ethnobiological interest. In the Barranca de Metztitlán Biosphere Reserve (RBBM), plant nurseries, some of which were created as Environmental Management Units (UMAs), have been established to grow and conserve cacti. This paper describes these nurseries, their role in cactus conservation, and the benefits and limitations for the people managing them. The nurseries have helped decrease illegal traffic in cacti and have enabled ex situ conservation of 22 cacti species. Cactus management has changed from extraction to cultivation, as a result of the knowledge and actions of multiple actors. The main limitation is marketing, a recurring problem for non-timber forest products (NTFP). Greater coordination among stakeholders is recommended, such as involvement by non-governmental organizations to improve their probability of success, as well as learning from the experience of other cactus UMAs. Improving the market for cacti is an issue that needs an immediate solution; otherwise conservation efforts could relapse.

Governance challenges for commercial exploitation of a non-timber forest product by marginalized rural communities

2016 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 208-220 ◽  
Author(s):  
ALAINE A. BALL ◽  
PEDRO H.S. BRANCALION
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Forest Products ◽  
Fruit Pulp ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Poor Access ◽  
Governance Challenges ◽  
Non Timber Forest Products ◽  
Conservation Governance ◽  
Conservation And Development Projects

SUMMARYWhile conservation and development projects focusing on non-timber forest products (NTFPs) remain popular approaches to address complex issues of livelihood improvement and conservation, governance of NTFPs is still poorly understood. In the Atlantic Forest biodiversity hotspot of Brazil, non-governmental organizations, researchers and community leaders are encouraging the commercialization of fruit pulp-based products from the endangered palm Euterpe edulis, known as juçara, to replace income from illegal heart of palm extraction. In order to assess the governance of development of juçara pulp as an NTFP and the potential to increase conservation of juçara through management on smallholder properties, we conducted qualitative research in São Paulo State from October 2012 to October 2013. Major challenges include policy barriers, difficulties integrating production and commercialization, problematic assumptions about poverty alleviation and the inability of the most disadvantaged members of communities to benefit. These governance challenges are a function of poor access, or the ‘bundle of powers’ that enables the ability to benefit. However, engagement with juçara fruit pulp production links farmers and former poachers with sustainable agricultural concepts and with networks, changing their perceptions of conservation and enhancing ability to benefit from improved policy.

Analisis Keterlibatan Lembaga Swadaya Masyarakat dalam Program Hutan Kemasyarakatan di Provinsi Nusa Tenggara Barat

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
M. Zaenul Muttaqin
Keyword(s):  
Community Forestry ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Forest Products ◽  
Monitoring And Evaluation ◽  
Community Context ◽  
Forestry Policy ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Timber Forest Products ◽  
Forestry Programs

This paper aims to analyze the involvement of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) of forestry policy frame with focus on the Community Forestry program in West Nusa Tenggara. The method in this study is using literature studies. The Data sources uses secondary data such as documents, legislation, articles and books containing the participation of NGOs in forestry programs. In the implementation of the HKm’s program is to realize democratization that is very strategic. It is because NGOs as a representation the needs and aspirations of people in forest areas. In the realm of policy, Forestry NGOs in NTB region synergized with all stakeholders that involved in the Community Forest program, ranging from formulation to evaluation. The involvement of NGOs in the community of HKm area is manifested by the assistance and business development of the community in the management of Non-Timber Forest Products (HHBK).  Monitoring and evaluation efforts as a basis for government policy advocacy to fit the community context is a form of NGO participation in forestry policy.  However, as an independent organization, NGOs rely on the availability of fund in handling the empowerment program.  

Bibliomining for Library Decision-Making

2011 ◽  
pp. 341-345
Author(s):  
Scott Nicholson ◽  
Jeffrey Stanton
Keyword(s):  
Data Mining ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Large Data ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Data Mining Techniques ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
Use Of The Internet

Most people think of a library as the little brick building in the heart of their community or the big brick building in the center of a campus. These notions greatly oversimplify the world of libraries, however. Most large commercial organizations have dedicated in-house library operations, as do schools, non-governmental organizations, as well as local, state, and federal governments. With the increasing use of the Internet and the World Wide Web, digital libraries have burgeoned, and these serve a huge variety of different user audiences. With this expanded view of libraries, two key insights arise. First, libraries are typically embedded within larger institutions. Corporate libraries serve their corporations, academic libraries serve their universities, and public libraries serve taxpaying communities who elect overseeing representatives. Second, libraries play a pivotal role within their institutions as repositories and providers of information resources. In the provider role, libraries represent in microcosm the intellectual and learning activities of the people who comprise the institution. This fact provides the basis for the strategic importance of library data mining: By ascertaining what users are seeking, bibliomining can reveal insights that have meaning in the context of the library’s host institution. Use of data mining to examine library data might be aptly termed bibliomining. With widespread adoption of computerized catalogs and search facilities over the past quarter century, library and information scientists have often used bibliometric methods (e.g., the discovery of patterns in authorship and citation within a field) to explore patterns in bibliographic information. During the same period, various researchers have developed and tested data mining techniques—advanced statistical and visualization methods to locate non-trivial patterns in large data sets. Bibliomining refers to the use of these bibliometric and data mining techniques to explore the enormous quantities of data generated by the typical automated library.

Assessing the Civil Society’s Role in Refugee Integration in Turkey: NGO-R as a New Typology

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 683-703 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulaş Sunata ◽  
Salіh Tosun
Keyword(s):  
Local Level ◽  
Community Organizations ◽  
Humanitarian Aid ◽  
Active Citizenship ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Refugee Community ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
The People ◽  
Main Factors

Abstract After the Syrian refugee influx in Turkey, the aspect of civil society in integration needs further clarification and categorization. Therefore, in this study, we aim to develop a general typology of NGOs (non-governmental organizations) that are active in immigration and immigration-related areas (NGO-R; non-governmental organizations—refugees). Our findings show that NGO-Rs play crucial roles in helping the refugees to access the rights provided by state, in integrating them into society at the local level by creating new social spaces and in sending humanitarian aid to the people of concern in Syria. Additionally, we claim that the refugee crisis facilitated the opportunities both for active citizenship as demanded and for new mobilization to manage the humanitarian and integration assistance towards the Syrians. Lastly, our fieldwork shows that religious and belief motives are the main factors playing a large part in the creation and maintenance of the NGO-R activities and refugee community organizations (RCOs) can have a distinctive integrative function by preferring to stay outside the mainstream channels.

scholarly journals Ethnobotanical study on Sustainable use of Non-Timber Forest Products and their Source Plant Species contribute to balance Livelihood and Conservation: a case of Sera Forest, Amigna District, Southern Ethiopia

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leul Kidane ◽  
Abu Balke Balke
Keyword(s):  
Plant Species ◽  
Conservation Status ◽  
Sustainable Use ◽  
Forest Products ◽  
Ex Situ ◽  
Local Source ◽  
Southern Ethiopia ◽  
Ethnobotanical Study ◽  
Plant Resources ◽  
Non Timber Forest Products

Abstract Background: Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFPs) do have significant role as local source for medicine, fiber, forage and sustenance and offer income opportunities for poverty mitigation mainly in rural families. Sustainable use of NTFPs is imperative so, this study was focused on the documentation of plant species used for NTFPs and their conservation status in Sera forest. Methods: The study applied a combination of plant ecological and ethnobotanical methods. Ethnobotanical data were gathered through semi-structured questionnaires and interviews which involved 230 (206 randomly sampled general and 24 purposively selected key informants); group discussion, guided field walk and market survey. Data were analyzed and presented using analytical methods of ethnobotany including descriptive statistics, informant consensus factor (ICF) and ranking. Results: A total of 137 plant species belonging to 49 families used as a source of NTFPs were documented from the study area. In addition, 11 major use categories of the NTFPs were identified. Out of these, medicine, fire wood and charcoal making and construction materials were the most dominant uses requiring large volume of NTFPs in the study area. The output of direct matrix ranking of plant species used for multipurpose revealed - Hagenia abyssinica ranked first followed by Olea europaea ssp cuspidata, Grewia mollis, Croton macrostachyus, Ximenia americana and Carissa spinarum. Hence, local communities of the study area possess rich potential indigenous knowledge that helped to use their natural resources for sustainable livelihood. Conclusions: Sera forest is rich in NTFPs bearing plants and associated indigenous conservation knowledge. However, nowadays illegal timber extractions, grazing, over harvesting NTFPs, farm expansion and fire hazards were found to be threatening of the plant resources in the study area. Therefore, awareness creation on complementary conservation (in-situ and ex-situ) and sustainable use of plant resources of the area for higher livelihood outcomes with lower environmental impacts is desirable.

scholarly journals Monetary Valuation of Selected Forest Products in Andoni

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (10) ◽  
pp. 5688-5693
Author(s):  
Irikana, J. J ◽  
Akujuru V. A
Keyword(s):  
Field Survey ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Forest Products ◽  
Forest Product ◽  
Forest Protection ◽  
Wildlife Species ◽  
The People ◽  
Non Timber Forest Products ◽  
The Government

Forest products are materials gotten from forest, for the direct consumption or commercial use such as timber and non-timber forest products. The destruction of forest in Andoni due to the exploration and consumption of forest products are done without determining the values of these products that could have been lost. This study attempts to determine the value of identified forest products information gathered through the use of questionnaire focus group discussion, field survey and other related materials. The simple percentage analysis shows that forest products have a lot of value to the people; hence community dwellers involved in it. Conclusively, forest product were identified and categorized into wildlife species (wild animal) and plant species which usefulness were been influenced by socio-external factor, economical factor and livelihood security factor. The economic value of forest product in a study area is N532,351,300.00 while the expected value is N865,648,300.00. Therefore, the government at all levels should provide indiscriminate exploitation of premature forest product policy on forest management that are appropriate. These should be made to effectively reflect and enhance forest protection and improvement of livelihood of the people.

scholarly journals INVENTARISASI HASIL HUTAN BUKAN KAYU PADA TANAMAN MPTS DI HUTAN DESA SUKARAJA KPH RAJABASA

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Ani Fitriyani ◽  
Melya Riniarti ◽  
Duryat Duryat
Keyword(s):  
Random Sampling ◽  
Mangifera Indica ◽  
Forest Products ◽  
Simple Random Sampling ◽  
Agroforestry System ◽  
Persea Americana ◽  
Durio Zibethinus ◽  
The People ◽  
Non Timber Forest Products ◽  
Gnetum Gnemon

ABSTRAK Hutan Desa Sukaraja merupakan hutan lindung yang dimanfaatkan oleh masyarakat melalui pengelolaan dengan sistem agroforestri dan pemungutan hasil hutan bukan kayu untuk meningkatkan kesejahteraan masyarakat. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk memperoleh data mengenai jenis dan jumlah HHBK dari tanaman MPTs serta menduga potensi HHBK dari tanaman MPTs pada masa yang akan datang berdasarkan ketersediaannya di masa kini. Data dikumpulkan melalui analisis vegetasi pada 29 plot contoh yang diambil berdasarkan metode SRS (Simple Random Sampling). Untuk memprediksi penambahan jumlah MPTs 1 sampai 4 tahun yang akan datang dilakukan pengamatan pohon pada fase tiang dan pancang. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan terdapat 11 jenis tanaman MPTs yang dimanfaatkan hasil hutan bukan kayunya oleh masyarakat Desa Sukaraja yaitu durian, cengkeh, pala, petai, alpukat, kemiri, mangga, nangka, jengkol, melinjo dan duku. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa hingga beberapa tahun yang akan datang pohon cengkeh dan durian masih menjadi MPTs yang paling banyak dimanfaatkan dan ditanam oleh masyarakat. Sedangkan mangga dan kemiri merupakan HHBK yang produksinya akan stagnan atau bahkan mengalami penurunan dalam kurun waktu 1-4 tahun yang akan datang. Kata Kunci : HHBK, MPTs, Hutan Desa, KHP Rajabasa  ABSTRACT Sukaraja Village Forest is a protected forest that is utilized by the community through agroforestry system and collection of non-timber forest products to improved community welfare. This study aimed to obtain data on the types and numbers of NTFPs from MPTs and to estimate the potential of NTFPs from MPTs in the future based on their availability in the present. Data was collected through vegetation analysis with 29 sample plots taken based on the SRS (Simple Random Sampling) method. To predict the increase of amount of MPTs in 1-4 years, observed of trees in the pole and sapling phases. The results showed that there were 11 types of MPTs that were utilized by non-timber forest products by the people of Sukaraja Village, that were Durio Zibethinus, Eugenis aromaticum, Phitecellobium lobatum, Parkia spesiosa, myristica fragnans, Artocarpus heterophyllus, Lansium domesticum, Persea americana, Alueuritas moluccanus, Gnetum gnemon and Mangifera indica. The results showed that for the next few years Eugenia aromaticum and Durio zibethinus trees were still the most widely used and planted by the community. While production of Mangifera indica and Alleurites moluccanus were the NTFPs that will be stagnate or even decline in the next 1-4 years. Keywords : NTFPs, MPTs, Village Forest, KPH Rajabasa

scholarly journals Genetic diversity in seedling populations of Dipterocarpus gracilis in Kecubung Ulolanang Nature Conservation Reserve, Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nesty Pratiwi Romadini ◽  
Sapto Indrioko ◽  
Widiyatno WIDIYATNO ◽  
Eny Faridah ◽  
Yeni Widyana Nurchahyani Ratnaningrum
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Diversity ◽  
Nature Conservation ◽  
Genetic Structure ◽  
Forest Products ◽  
Ex Situ ◽  
Mature Trees ◽  
Central Java ◽  
Conservation Of Genetic Resources ◽  
Non Timber Forest Products ◽  
Genetic Drifts

Abstract. Romadini NP, Indrioko S, Widiyatno, Faridah E, Ratnaningrum YWN. 2021. Genetic diversity in seedling populations of Dipterocarpus gracilis in Kecubung Ulolanang Nature Conservation Reserve, Indonesia. Biodiversitas 22: 1138-1145. Dipterocarpus gracilis Blume is one of the native Dipterocarpus species in Java Island, Indonesia. It has commercial value as timber (wood) and non-timber forest products (oleoresin). This species has been considered vulnerable following the Red List of Threatened Species criteria by The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). We aimed to study the genetic diversity and genetic structure of seedlings as the natural regenerating population of Dipterocarpus gracilis Blume in The Kecubung Ulolanang Nature Conservation Reserve, Batang District, Central Java Province, Indonesia. The D. gracilis population in this area is distributed in four zones. We observed a total of 137 juvenile seedlings representing all the zones. Isozyme markers detected the genetic diversity of D. gracilis by peroxidase (PRX), esterase (EST), and acid phosphatase (ACP) enzymes. The mean observed heterozygosity of all the zones was lower (HO=0.078) than expected heterozygosity (HE=0.203). Genetic depletion occurred because of genetic drifts and founder effects due to low parental diversity. The genetic structure of seedlings is similar to the consequence of inbreeding. We conclude that the genetic diversity of D. gracilis decreases when mature trees are reduced. This population has essential values ​​in Java Island and should be a priority evaluation in the in-situ and ex-situ conservation of genetic resources.

scholarly journals AID FOR AFRICA AS ONE OF THE ACTIVITIES CARRIED OUT BY POLISH NGOs: LEGAL AND SOCIOLOGICAL APPROACH

MEST Journal ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-81
Author(s):  
Marek Stych ◽  
Beata Pawlica ◽  
Malgorzata Kmak
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Humanitarian Aid ◽  
International Aid ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Sociological Approach ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
The People

This article tackles the issue of aid for African states. Africa is one of the poorest continents, with many people living on the verge of poverty and suffering from malnutrition or famine. Hence, the humanitarian aid provided to the people of this continent is of particular importance. In Poland, such aid activities undertake entities defined in the Polish legal system as non-governmental organizations (NGOs). NGOs also conduct many other kinds of activities. The Act on public benefit and volunteer work is an example of creating legal mechanisms for the functioning of civil society in the legal system to provide international aid to those it needs. Assisting other societies is important for modern civil society the same as political or economic cooperations are. The role of NGOs operating in health protection, education, or entrepreneurship areas is crucially important. The authors of this paper discuss the issue of the said aid provided by selected Polish NGOs. The article aims to determine the extent and scope of the assistance to African countries provided by the NGOs, based on the respondents' experiences, whether such assistance is necessary, and what form it should take.

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