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Forest products

Year of publication 1991

Author Office of Assistant Director-General (Forestry Department)

Product type Document

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) Throughout history, the forests have been valued for the multiplicity of products and benefits that they provide, both for subsistence and for trade: foods, medicines, spices, resins, gums, latexes, wildlife, fuelwood, and of course timber and other wood products. The literature is rich with examples of international trade in forest products, many dating back thousands of years. Significantly, in most cases the products sought by traders were resins, oils, spices, and much less frequently timber . For most of the modern era, however, from a development perspective forests essentially have been seen as a source of one product: wood.

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