Non-timber forest products (NTFPs) are increasingly recognized as providing critical resources across the globe, fulfilling nutritional, medicinal, financial and cultural needs. However, despite rapidly growing interest in, and demand for, such products as Brazil nuts, baobab bark, rattans, pine resin, maple syrup, bromeliads and chicle, NTFPs have largely been overlooked in mainstream conservation and forestry politics.

Toping the Green Market explained the use and importance of market-based tools such as certification and eco-labelling for guaranteeing best management practices of NTFPs, this book not only furthers our comprehension of certification processes but also broadens our understanding of NTFP management, harvesting and marketing.

This practical volume includes valuable guideline on NTFP management assessment and species-specific certification. It will prove indispensable for forest managers, policy-makers and conservation organizations as well as for academic in these areas.