Certifying the harvest: developments in NTFP certification

Patrick Mallet

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Certifying the harvest: developments in NTFP certification

Informally Refereed

Authors:

Patrick Mallet

Year:

2001

Type:

Paper

Station:

Northern Research Station

Source:

In: Davidson-Hunt, Iain; Duchesne, Luc C.; Zasada, John C., eds. Forest communities in the third millennium: linking research, business, and policy toward a sustainable non-timber forest product sector, proceedings of the meeting; 1999 October 1-4; Kenora, Ontario, Canada. Gen. Tech. Rep. NC-217. St. Paul, MN: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, North Central Research Station: 124-127.

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Abstract

I coordinate a Certification and Marketing program for Falls Brook Centre, an environmental organization based in New Brunswick. I first got interested in certification issues during my work with an international agroforestry network whose members wanted to highlight the ecological practices inherent in their production system. In my initial research, I found that a number of different certification programs operating worldwide were interested in incorporating agroforestry and non-timber forest products (NTFPs) into their systems but that each was operating in isolation.

Citation

Mallet, Patrick. 2001. Certifying the harvest: developments in NTFP certification. In: Davidson-Hunt, Iain; Duchesne, Luc C.; Zasada, John C., eds. Forest communities in the third millennium: linking research, business, and policy toward a sustainable non-timber forest product sector, proceedings of the meeting; 1999 October 1-4; Kenora, Ontario, Canada. Gen. Tech. Rep. NC-217. St. Paul, MN: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, North Central Research Station: 124-127.