Rattan : Current Research Issues and Prospects for Conservation and Sustainable Development

Contents: Foreword. Acknowledgements. List of acronyms. I. Introduction and summary of the results of the expert consultation. II. The resources, its uses and present action programmes: 1. Species Profiles Rattan/Terry C.H. Sunderland and John Dransfield. 2. General introduction to Rattan--the biological background to exploitation and the history of Rattan research/John Dransfield. 3. Challenges and constraints in Rattan processing and utilization/Walter Liese. 4. Presentation of INBAR\'s Programme on Rattan/I.R. Hunter and Y. Lou. 5. CIFOR Research: forest products and people, Rattan issues/Brian Belcher. 6. Rattan genetic resources conservation and use, IPGRI\'s perspective and strategy/L.T. Hong, V. Ramanatha Rao and W. Amaral. 7. ITTO\'s experiences in promoting tropical non-timber forest products/Hwan Ok Ma. III. Status of Rattan resources and uses in Africa and Asia: 1. Status of Rattan resources and use in West and Central Africa/Terry C.H. Sunderland. 2. Rattan as a sustainable industry in Africa: the need for technological interventions/A. Oteng-Amoako and B. Obiri Darko. 3. Status of Rattan resources and use in South Asia/C. Renuka. 4. The status of the Rattan sectors in Lao People\'s Democratic Republic, Vietnam and Cambodia--with an emphasis on Cane supply/Tom Evans. 5. Degraded tropical forest and its potential role for Rattan development: an Indonesian perspective/Toga Silitonga. 6. Country report on the status of Rattan resources and uses in Malaysia/Abdul Razak Mohd Ali and R.S. Raja Barizan. 7. Rattan resources of the Philippines, their extent, production, utilization and issues on resource development/Florentino O. Tesoro. 8. Thai Rattan in the early 2000/Isara Vongkaluang. 9. Rattan in East Kalimantan, Indonesia: Species composition, abundance, distribution and growth in some selected sites/Johan L.C.H. van Valkenburg). IV. Review of policy, institutional and socio-economic aspects governing the Rattan section: 1. Harvesting Wild Rattan: opportunities, constraints and monitoring methods/Stephen F. Siebert. 2. Rattan in the twenty-first century--an outlook/Cherla B. Sastry. 3. Policy and institutional framework for sustainable development of Rattan/M.N. Salleh. V. Identification and discussion on required actions to enhance the sustainable development of the Rattan sector: 1. Key Issues for action/Wulf Killmann. Conclusions and recommendations. Appendices.

"This volume contains the outcome of the Expert Consultation on Rattan Development, held at FAO, Rome from 5 to 7 December, 2000, which was jointly organised with the International Network on Bamboo and Rattan (INBAR) and co-funded by the Sweedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA). The report includes a summary of discussions, recommendations and background papers and is organised according to the four thematic areas considered by the consultation: resources, uses and present action programmes; country reports on the status of Rattan resources and uses in Africa and Asia; Review of Policy, institutional and socio-economic aspects governing the Rattan sector; and Identification and discussions on required actions to enhance the sustainable development of the Rattan sector. The 20 background paper give a comprehensive overview of the situation and prospects for the development of the Rattan sector in Africa and Asia."