Small mushrooms for big business? Gaps in the sustainable management of non-timber forest products in Southwest China

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 6847-6861

  He, Jun ^a,b   Dong, Min ^c,d   Stark, Macro ^b  

^a YUNNAN AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE ICRAF   (Kenya)

^c SOUTHWEST FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d FUJIAN AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Commercial NTFPs; Decentralization; Forest tenure; Market structure; Value chain

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT; CAPACITY BUILDING; COMMERCIALIZATION; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; FOREST MANAGEMENT; INVESTMENT; MARKET CONDITIONS; MOUNTAIN REGION; NONTIMBER FOREST PRODUCT; POLICY DEVELOPMENT; SUSTAINABILITY;

CHINA;

BASIDIOMYCOTA;

EID: 84907611608     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20711050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su6106847     Document Type: Article

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