Non-Timber Forest Products: Food, Healthcare and Industrial Applications

ISBN-13: 9783030730796 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022

Husen, Azamal

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Forests cover thirty-one percent of the world’s land surface, provide habitats for animals, livelihoods for humans, and generate household income in rural areas of developing countries. They also supply other essential amenities, for instance, they filter water, control water runoff, protect soil erosion, regulate climate, store nutrients, and facilitate countless non-timber forest products (NTFPs). The main NTFPs comprise herbs, grasses, climbers, shrubs, and trees used for food, fodder, fuel, beverages, medicine, animals, birds and fish for food, fur, and feathers, as well as their products, like honey, lac, silk, and paper. At present, these products play an important role in the daily life and well-being of millions of people worldwide. Hence the forest and its products are very valuable and often NTFPs are considered as the ‘potential pillars of sustainable forestry’.

 

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.

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PREFACE

Section (A) FOOD AND ASSOCIATED PRODUCTS

1. Food from various forest sources

Bronwen Powell

School of Dietetics and Human Nutrition and the Centre for Indigenous Peoples’ Nutrition and Environment, McGill University,

Montreal, Quebec H9X 3V9, Canada

2. Multifaceted application of edible mushroom

R. Cohen, L. Persky, Y. Hadar 

Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology and The Otto Warburg Center for Biotechnology in Agriculture, Faculty of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Quality Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, P.O. Box 12, Rehovot 76100, Israel

3. Oils/fats from forest and their application

Luiza Helena Meller da Silva

LAMEFI - Physical Measurement Laboratory, Faculty of Food Engineering, Federal University of Pará, Belém, Pará 66075-900, Brazil

4. Sweeteners from plants and their application in modern lifestyle

R. S. Pawar, A. J. Krynitsky, J. I. Rader

Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, US Food and Drug Administration,

5100 Paint Branch Parkway, College Park, MD 20740, USA

5. Nutritional, industrial, and pharmaceutical potential of plant gum

B. S. Khatkar, D. Mudgil, S. Barak

Department of Food Technology,

Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology,

Hisar 125001, India

6. Spices from forest: from past to present time

Linda C. Tapsell

Director, National Centre of Excellence in Functional Foods,

University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, Australia

7. Potential herbs and spices from forest and their role in liver and kidney diseases management

Yonghua Wang

Center of Bioinformatics, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, Shaanxi, China

8. Fodder from forest tree spices

Deepak Kumar, Archana Bachheti

Department of Agriculture, Graphic Era Hill University, Dehradun, India

Section (B) MEDICINAL PLANTS AND THEIR PRODUCTS

9. Aromatic plants and herbal drugs from forest

Alexander N. Shikov

Saint-Petersburg Institute of Pharmacy, Kuzmolovsky, Russia, 2 All Russian Research Institute Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (VILAR), Moscow, Russia

10. Health benefits, traditional and modern uses of natural honey

Liyanage D.A.M. Arawwawala, 

Industrial Technology Institute, Bauddhaloka Mawatha, Colombo 07, Sri Lanka

11. Role of traditional chewing sticks in oral hygiene in Africa:  An important non-timber product 

Fekade Beshah, Yilma Hunde

Industrial Chemistry Department, Applied Science College, Addis Ababa Science and Technology University, PO. Box 16417, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

12. Ganoderma lucidum: king of mushroom

Sudhir Thapliyal 

Bagwan Gramodhyog Samiti, village Shyampur, PO Ambiwala, Premnagar, Dehradun, India

13. Seeds and nuts used in health care and disease prevention

R.K. Bachheti

Department of Industrial Chemistry, College of Applied Science, Addis Ababa Science and Technology University, Addis Ababa, P.O. Box-16417, Ethiopia

14. Potential application of herbs from forest against heart disease management

L.C. Di Stasi

Phytopharmaceutical Laboratory, Department of Pharmacology, Institute of Biosciences of Botucatu, UNESP. CP 510, CEP, 18618-000, Botucatu, São Paulo, Brazil

15. Forest based herbal drug for cancer disease management

Azamal Husen

Wolaita Sodo University, P.O. Box‎: ‎138, Wolaita, Ethiopia

16. Medicinal plants of Himalayan forests

Praveen K. Verma

Botany Division, Forest Research Institute, Dehradun, India

17. Role of ornamental seed pods in beautification of house and garden and their medicinal significance

Negi, K.S, Tiwari, V., Singh, P., Mehta, Rawat, R.

National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources (ICAR-NBPGR),

Regional Station, Bhowali -263 132 Niglat, Distt. Nainital, Uttarakhand, India

Section (C) INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS 

18. Non-timber forest products: current status and development

Alice Ludvig

University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, BOKU, Peter Jordan Str. 82, 1190, Vienna, Austria

19. Marketing of non-timber forest products: a growing commercial sector

Franz K. Huber, Yang Yongping, and Sun Weibang 

Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Heilongtan, Kunming 650204, China

20. International market prospects of non-timber forest products

Terry C.H. Sunderland

African Rattan Research programme PO BOX 437, Limbe, Cameroon

 

21. Various bamboos and canes from forest 

R. C. Sundriyal, T. C. Upreti and R. Varuni

G.B. Pant Institute of Himalayan Environment and Development, North East Unit, Vivek Vihar, Itanagar 791 113, Arunachal Pradesh, India

22. Forest as a source of natural dye material

Venkatasubramanian Sivakumar

Chemical Engineering Division, Central Leather Research Institute (CLRI), Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Adyar, Chennai 600 020, India

23. Fibre from forest and their importance in modern time

Deepti, Archana Bachheti

Department of Environment Science, Graphic Era University, Dehradun - 248002, Uttarakhand, India

24. Silk from forest, farms and cultivated plants

Fritz Vollrath

Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK

25. Pulp and paper from forest

Tesema hailu, R.K. Bachheti

Department of Industrial Chemistry, College of Applied Science, Addis Ababa Science and Technology University, Addis Ababa, P.O. Box-16417, Ethiopia

26. Physico-chemical properties and application of some non-cultivated oil-bearing seeds 

Berrin Bozan

Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Department of Chemical Engineering, Anadolu University, 26470 Eskisehir, Turkey

27. Useful products of insect’s origin from forests

Rameshwar Singh Rattan

Entomology and Pesticide Residue Analysis Laboratory, Hill Area Tea Sciences (HATS) Division, Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology (CSIR), Post Box-6, Palampur 176061, Himachal Pradesh, India

28. Aromatic oils from forest and their application 

Miriam A. Apel

Instituto de Química, USP, Av. Lineu Prestes 748 B11 T 05508-900 São Paulo, SP Brazil

Section (D) COSMETICS PRODUCTS

29. Commercial, cosmetic and medicinal importance of Sandal (Santalum album): a valuable forest resource

C. C. Giri, C. Anjaneyulu 

Centre for Plant Molecular Biology (CPMB), Osmania

University, Hyderabad, 500 007, AP, India

30. Essential oil from forest and their cosmetic applications

Gledson V. Bianconi

Mülleriana: Soc. Fritz Müller of Natural Sciences. PO Box 19093, 81531‐980, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil

31. Use of non-timber forest products in beauty care 

Md. Abdul Halim

Department of Forestry and Environmental Science, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet-3114, Bangladesh

BIBLIOGRAPHY

GLOSSARY

INDEX

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Professor Azamal Husen (BSc from Shri Murli Manohar Town Post Graduate College, Ballia, UP; MSc from Hamdard University, New Delhi; and PhD from Forest Research Institute, Dehra Dun, India) is a Foreign Delegate at Wolaita Sodo University, Wolaita, Ethiopia. He has served the University of Gondar, Ethiopia, as a Full Professor of Biology, and also worked as the Coordinator of MSc Program and the Head, Department of Biology. He was a Visiting Faculty of the Forest Research Institute, and the Doon College of Agriculture and Forest at Dehra Dun, India. He has a more than 20 years’ experience of teaching, research and administration. Dr. Husen specializes in biogenic nanomaterials fabrication and their application, plant response to nanomaterials, plant production and adaptation to harsh environments at physiological, biochemical and molecular levels, herbal medicine, and clonal propagation and improvement of tree species. He has conducted several research projects sponsored by various funding agencies, including the World Bank, the Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR), the Indian Council of Forest Research Education (ICFRE); and the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC), etc. He has published over 100 research papers, review articles and book chapters, edited books of international repute, presented papers in several conferences, and produced over a dozen of manuals and monographs. Dr. Husen received four fellowships from India and a recognition award from University of Gondar, Ethiopia, for excellent teaching, research and community service. An active organizer of seminars/conferences and an efficient evaluator of research projects and book proposals as he is, Dr. Husen has been on the Editorial board and the panel of reviewers of several reputed journals of Elsevier, Frontiers Media SA, Taylor & Francis, Springer Nature, RSC, Oxford University Press, Sciendo, The Royal Society, CSIRO, PLOS and John Wiley & Sons. He is included in the advisory board of Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK. He is a Fellow of the Plantae group of American Society of Plant Biologists, and a Member of International Society of Root Research, Asian Council of Science Editors, and INPST, etc. Also, he is Editor-in-Chief of American Journal of Plant Physiology; and a Series Editor of ‘Exploring Medicinal Plants’ published by Taylor & Francis Group, USA.

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 Science and 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.