Editors:
- A collection of recent and updated reviews of the multiple roles of NTFPs
- Discusses the forest-based herbs, grasses, climbers, shrubs, and trees used for food, fodder, fuel, beverages, medicine; as well as their several products
- Highlights the NTFPs development and promotion to reduce the destruction of the biodiversity
- Caters to a wide audience including forester, botanist, economic botanist, ecologists, biologists, and forestry sector scientists, experts, and consultants
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
NTFPs items like food, herbal drugs, forage, fuel-wood, fountain, fibre, bamboo, rattans, leaves, barks, resins, and gums have been continuously used and exploited by humans. Wild edible foods are rich in terms of vitamins, protein, fat, sugars, and minerals. Additionally, some NTFPs are used as important raw materials for pharmaceutical industries. Numerous industry-based NTFPs are now being exported in considerable quantities by developing countries. Accordingly, this sector facilitates employment opportunities in remote rural areas. So, these developments also highlight the role of NTFPs in poverty alleviation in different regions of the world.
This book provides a wide spectrum of information on NTFPs, including important references. We hope that the compendium of chapters in this book will be very useful as a reference book for graduate and postgraduate students and researchers in various disciplines of forestry, botany, medical botany, economic botany, ecology, agroforestry, and biology. Additionally, this book should be useful for scientists, experts, and consultants associated with the forestry sector.
Editors and Affiliations
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Wolaita Sodo University, Wolaita, Ethiopia
Azamal Husen
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Department of Industrial Chemistry, College of Applied Sciences, Addis Ababa Science and Technology University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Rakesh Kumar Bachheti
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Department of Environmental Science, Graphic Era University, Dehradun, India
Archana Bachheti
About the editors
Dr. Rakesh Kumar Bachheti graduated from the Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna University, Garhwal, India, in 1996. He completed his MSc in Organic Chemistry from Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna University, Garhwal, India in 1998. He had undergone a one-year Post Graduate Diploma in Pulp and Paper Technology from Forest Research Institute, Dehradun, in 2001. He obtained his PhD in Organic Chemistry from Kumaun University, Nainital, India in 2007. He is presently working as an Associate Professor of Organic Chemistry in the Department of Industrial Chemistry at the Addis Ababa Scienceand Technology University (AASTU) of Ethiopia, where he teaches PhD, graduate and undergraduate students. Before joining AASTU, Dr. Rakesh was working as Dean Project (Assistant) in Graphic Era University (A grade university by NACC) Dehradun, India. Dr. Rakesh also presented papers in various international and national conferences. His major research interests include natural product for industrial application, biofuel and bioenergy, green synthesis of nanoparticles and their applications, and pulp and paper technology. He has successfully advised 30 MSc and 3 PhD students to completion and countless undergraduates have researched in his laboratory. Dr. Bachheti has over 50 publications dealing with various aspects of natural product chemistry and has eight book chapters published by Springer, Elsevier, Taylor & Francis, and Nova Publisher. Presently, he is supervising 5 PhD students, 3 Master’s students and also working for two research projects funded by AASTU.
Dr. Archana (Joshi) Bachheti did BSc in the year 1997, and MSc in 1999 from Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna University, Garhwal, India. She received her PhD from Forest Research Institute, Dehradun, India in 2006. She has carried out research projects and consultancy work in the areas of ecorestoration/ development of wasteland, physico-chemical properties of Jatropha curcus seed oil and their relation with altitudinal variation; and has been a Consultant Ecologist to a project funded by some governmental agencies. Dr. Joshi, currently an Associate Professor at Graphic Era University, Dehradun, India. She has also served in many capacities in the academia within India and provided expertise internationally for more than 15 years where she taught Ecology and Environment, Environmental Science, Freshwater Ecology, Disaster management, and Bryophytes and Pteridophytes. Her major research interests encompass the broad, interdisciplinary field of plant ecology, with focus on eco-restoration, green chemistry especially the synthesis of nanomaterials, and medicinal properties of plants. She organized several National seminars and conferences. She guided one PhD student and at present supervising three scholars, as well as guided graduate and undergraduate students for their research projects. Dr. Joshi has published more than 50 research articles in international and national journals along with six book chapters.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Non-Timber Forest Products
Book Subtitle: Food, Healthcare and Industrial Applications
Editors: Azamal Husen, Rakesh Kumar Bachheti, Archana Bachheti
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73077-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-73076-5Published: 31 July 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-73079-6Published: 31 July 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-73077-2Published: 30 July 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 473
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations, 39 illustrations in colour
Topics: Plant Ecology, Forestry, Plant Sciences, Ecology, Biodiversity