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A view from within:
the forest and its resources from a community perspective
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Mountain Medicine Man:
Phong of Nui Chua National Park
Phong looked at his baby, Kim Ngoc, smiled and shared with us his story. Over a year ago, his wife, Tien, was complaining of pains in the lower abdomen. Phong decided to bring her to the doctor trained in Western medicine. To his dismay, the doctor pronounced that his wife had a grave illness in her kidney and she had to be operated on immediately or she would never be able to deliver another baby. Phong did not believe the doctor and instead bet with him that he would be able to heal his wife with medicines from forest plants. Kim Ngoc was proof enough that he had won that wager.
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What NTFP is that?
Food, materials for crafts, building materials, medicine, and rituals … these are just a few uses of non-timber forest products. NTFPs are "all biological materials, other than timber, which are extracted from forests for human use."
Learn more about specific NTFPs upon which communities across the region rely on for their livelihoods as well as to sustain their traditions. Search our NTFP database, a collaborative project of the partners of NTFP-EP. Enter the database here.
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Featured NTFP Product:Upland Crafts meet Modern Function
Accentuated with hinabol fabric from the Higaonon women of Bukidnon, the Philippines, this CD album has an adjustable spine. Can hold a total of 30 CDs. Comes with a coordinating box to protect your CDs.
Like other products from the CustomMade Crafts Center in Manila, your purchase supports the livelihoods of upland dwellers while providing a venue for their traditional arts to flourish.
CustomMade, through continuous product development and market linking, finds new niches, uses and applications for traditional products and skills, generating income that that will allow them to meet the expenses brought about by modern life, while still having the freedom to carry out their traditional way of life.
For more unique products, please visit the CustomMade Crafts Center at www.cmcrafts.org or Modi at www.modiphilippines.com
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Editor's Notes: Voices No, 16
It is a time for recognition, for celebration. More importantly, it is a time for reflection, and looking towards taking on new and even bigger challenges. Definitely not a time to rest on our laurels!
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| |  | Of Gender, Indigenous People and Development Work: It shouldn’t be a battle
It is March, and it is Women's Month. I'm reminded of a memorable trip I took 20 years ago at around this time of the year, when I was hiking up in the beautiful mountains of Surigao del Sur in the southern Philippines to a community of the Manobo, an indigenous group. For a city person like me, the walk to the village of some 60 households took 8 hours, as we clambered over slippery river rocks and trudged through the muddy mountain trails. I was working for a donor agency at the time, and I was on my way to the village for a project monitoring visit, one of my regular tasks. For travel like this, it meant being away for a week or more from my home in Manila some 450 kilometers north of these mountains, where my two young children waited. On this trip, as in many other similar trips, the village women, and sometimes men, would ask me: "You mean you leave your young kids behind? Who will take care of them? How can you bear being parted from them?"
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What is the NTFP Exchange Programme?
We are a collaborative network of non-governmental organisations
and community-based organisations in South and Southeast Asia.
We work with forest-based communities to strengthen their capacity
in sustainable management of natural resources. Over the years,
the NTFP-EP has grown into a dynamic network, with over 40 partner
organisations and major contacts in India, the Philippines,
Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam and Cambodia.
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