The search grows out of a rising awareness that answering the needs of these areas' human inhabitants may well be a sine qua non for environmental success, and vice versa . Indigenous products already in use have come under closer study, while speculation continues regarding potential uses for a raft of other products. By focusing on the tree rather than the forest, workshop discussions embraced products able to make the cross-over from natural forest to agroforest or farm cultivation, thereby including products feasible, for example, in the drylands of Africa in addition to those workable in the humid tropical forest margins. Indeed, NTTP market studies probably must ultimately be linked to study of other product markets, or market performance more generally, for the sites in question. Download full-text workshop summary paper .
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