Non-Timber Forest Product Livelihood-Focused Interventions in Support of Mangrove Restoration: A Call to Action

Autor: Stijn Reinhard, C.J. Klapwijk, Sander van den Burg, Adolphe O. Debrot, Sri Rejeki, M. Poelman, Md. Nazrul Islam, Catharien Terwisscha van Scheltinga, Ekaningrum Damastuti, Rudhi Pribadi, Moin Uddin Ahmed, Yus R. Noor, Md. Iftakharul Alam, Esther Koopmanschap, A.A. Veldhuizen, Ratnawaty Fadilah, Selim R. Hasan, Md. Nazmul Ahsan, Charlotte Verburg
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
Předmět:
Water en Landgebruik
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
Mangrove restoration
Advisory
Natural resource economics
Land Use and Food Security
Water en Voedsel
WASS
Mangrove NTFP
010501 environmental sciences
01 natural sciences
Commercialization
Soil
Onderz. Form. D
Soil
Water and Land Use
Bodem
Aquaculture and Fisheries
systems approach
alternative livelihood
Green Economy and Landuse
ecological constraints
Aquacultuur en Visserij
Forestry
NWFP
Livelihood
Groene Economie en Ruimte
Milieusysteemanalyse
Emissions & Manure Valorisation
Mangrove
Scale mismatch
Business opportunity
scale mismatch
Emissie & Mestverwaarding
Ecological constraints
mangrove NTFP
Marine Animal Ecology
Agricultural Economics and Rural Policy
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Non-timber forest product
Water and Food
Water and Land Use
Agrarische Economie en Plattelandsbeleid
Subsistence agriculture
Mariene Dierecologie
Landgebruik en Voedselzekerheid
lcsh:QK900-989
Bodem
Water en Landgebruik
Systems approach
Environmental Systems Analysis
Sustainability
lcsh:Plant ecology
Business
Alternative livelihood
Zdroj: Forests, Vol 11, Iss 1224, p 1224 (2020)
Forests 11 (2020) 11
Forests
Volume 11
Issue 11
Forests, 11(11)
ISSN: 1999-4907
Popis: Mangroves of tropical and subtropical shores and deltas contribute to ecosystem functioning and human wellbeing in numerous ways but continue to be lost or degraded worldwide at a rapid pace. Overexploitation driven by poverty is often the root cause of mangrove destruction and degradation. The negative feedback cycle between destruction and poverty can only be broken by justly valuing current or introducing new sustainable livelihood options to foster long-lasting local support for mangroves. The large array of non-timber forest products (NTFPs) that mangroves offer have rarely been developed beyond the subsistence level and remain undervalued as &ldquo
products of the poor&rdquo
In light of the global trends towards sustainability and bio-economy, today they represent a major business opportunity for forest communities to produce high value-added end-user products. Even though mangrove NTFPs have been recognized to have high potential toward inclusive development and poverty alleviation and to be highly gender-equal, the development of mangrove NTFPs has continued to attract very little funding or research interest. Several ecological characteristics make commercialization of mangrove NTFPs particularly challenging. Production at economies of scale, including quality standards, as well as marketing and value chain management are all essential in order to develop these products beyond their subsistence role. To be most effective, a systems perspective on NTFP development is needed, whereby product-market development occurs in unison and based on a participative, inclusive and fair development approach. The species/product of choice for value-added product-market development in any specific community or area will depend on several factors. To address many of the typical constraints and maximize the chances of success, we suggest that the use of village or district-level cooperatives may be particularly useful. A better use of the untapped potential of mangroves for local livelihoods may form a most convincing advocate for local protection and restoration of mangrove forests. Therefore, funding agencies, governments and researchers alike are called to invest in mangrove NTFP development as a way to locally incentivize sustainable mangrove protection and restoration.
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