Kleinhans Fellowship

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Measuring the Resilience of Brazil Nut Production to Landscape-Level Change in the Western Amazon

Understanding complex linkages between social and ecological systems and their resilience to external shocks is essential to promote the sustainable management of natural resources. This project, funded by the Rainforest Alliance’s Kleinhans Fellowship and directed by a graduate student researcher at the University of Florida, explored the resilience of Brazil nut (Bertholletia excelsa) production to […]

Impact Study
September 7, 2007

2003-2005 Kleinhans Fellow: Carla Morsello

Company-Community Partnerships for Commercializing Non-Timber Forest Products in the Brazilian Amazon: Drivers, Problems, and Consequences Project Summary This project of the Universidade de São Paulo in Brazil aims to evaluate the motivations, opportunities, problems, and consequences of trade partnerships or agreements established between forest communities and corporations, for the commercialization of non-timber forest products (NTFPs). […]... Continue Reading

Project Profiles
September 12, 2005

Corporate-Community Agreements for Commercializing Non Timber Forest Products in the Brazilian Amazon

The Universidade de São Paulo in Brazil evaluated the motivations, opportunities, problems, and consequences of trade partnerships or agreements established between forest communities and corporations, for the commercialization of non-timber forest products (NTFPs). Ongoing corporate-community partnerships at both the community and corporate level were examined, as well as policies that could prompt beneficial impacts while […]

White Paper
September 4, 2005

2001-2003 Kleinhans Fellow: Catarina Illsley Granich

Development of a Management Plan for the Production of Mezcal from Maguey Papalotl (Agave cupreata) in Peasant Communities of the Montaña de Guerrero, Mexico Project Summary The project seeks to draw guidelines for sustainable management of a non-timber forest product of great importance for poor farmers that inhabit Mexican tropical dry forests: Agave for mezcal […]... Continue Reading

Project Profiles
September 12, 2003

1999-2001 Kleinhans Fellow: Silvia E. Purata

Conservation and Use of Bursera spp. in the Tropical Dry Forests of Oaxaca: The Role of Markets and Certification in the Management of Non-Timber Forest Products The main objective of this project is to examine the ecological and market dynamics of some non-timber forest products of economic importance from the dry tropical forests of Oaxaca, Mexico. One […]... Continue Reading

Project Profiles
September 12, 2001

1997-1999 Kleinhans Fellow: Campbell Plowden

The Ecology, Management and Marketing of Non-Timber Forest Products in the Alto Rio Guamá Indigenous Reserve (Eastern Brazilian Amazon) Ethnobotanical studies have shown that indigenous people use hundreds of rainforest plant and animal species for subsistence purposes. It is more difficult, however, for forest peoples to support community development with the sustainable harvest and sale […]... Continue Reading

Project Profiles
September 12, 1999