Demonstrating Forestry Value and Exploring Emerging Technologies for Non-Wood Products
A special issue of Forests (ISSN 1999-4907). This special issue belongs to the section "Wood Science and Forest Products".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2025 | Viewed by 1979
Special Issue Editors
Interests: forest biomass energy; liquid products from carbonization; wood vinegar for agricultural, veterinary uses, and animal production; eucalyptus energetic forests (short-rotation cropping)
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Interests: wood science; forest products; natural fibers; non-wood forest products
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Interests: non-timber forest products; forest products; wood preservation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Non-wood forest products (NWFPs) are defined as goods of natural origin other than wood, derived from forests, wooded lands, and trees outside forests or in the surroundings. This category of products includes aromatic essences, bushmeat, edible and non-edible fruits, grasses, gums, honey, leaves, medicinal herbs, mushrooms, nuts, resins, tannins, and bark-derived products. Further, fibers from bamboo, rattans, and palms are NWFPs. Millions of rural people living in forests worldwide depend on these products as sources of food, fodder, medicine, and construction materials. Several low-income communities rely on NWFPs since they provide employment and income and significantly contribute to fulfilling daily the needs of forest-dwelling and rural people, especially women. NWFPs are essential, and the social and environmental services provided by forests, whether planted or native, are equally very important. In the presented context, this Special Issue intends to shed some light on and give a broad overview of the most recent advances in the NWFP field, such as the integration of crops and animal husbandry to forestry systems, multipurpose planted forests for the recovery of degraded lands, forests managed by cooperatives of farmers, cultural traditions in NWFP collection, and the like. Hence, the Special Issue aims to contribute to present advances in processing, applications, logistics, harnessing, new products (fine chemicals, medicines, essential oils, dyes, non-conventional edible plants, alternative tanners, etc.), economics, management, social and environmental development, and related topics related to NWFPs.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Study cases on the importance of NWFPs to local communities;
- Management strategies to add value to NWFPs;
- New medicines from NWFPs;
- Strategies and technologies to improve and develop NWFP production in rural areas;
- State-of-the-art of NWFP harnessing in forest and rural communities
- New products from NWFPs—fine chemicals, medicines, essential oils, dyes, non-conventional edible plants, alternative tanners, etc.;
- Social development and ending poverty through NWFP management;
- Social and environmental services provided by managed forests to produce NWFPs.
Prof. Dr. Alexandre Santos Pimenta
Dr. Rafael Rodolfo De Melo
Dr. Juarez Benigno Paes
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- non-wood forest products
- new trends in NWFP harnessing
- natural products
- circular economy
- sustainable development
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