Valuing Ecosystem Services: Non-timber Forest Products in the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania

This internship would focus on the provision of NTFPs from the Eastern Arc Mountains. Bringing together relevant data on goods such as honey, mushrooms, medicinal plants, fibers, fuelwood, building poles etc... This information exists in a variety of outputs including government documents, academic literature, household surveys, and NGO reports. However this data has not been brought together and made spatially explicit - which would be the focus of this work. The driving questions for this work is where are NTFP services being produced? Where are NTFP services being utilized? What is the cost to rural households of not using NTFPs ?(i.e. what are the costs of market substitutes?) Is there an indication of time spent on NTFP collection, processing, transporting etc?

Preferred experience: ArcGIS, some social science background, some knowledge of forest ecosystems

Stipend: unpaid

Due date for CV and cover letter: April 1, 2008

Contact: Neil Burgess (Neil.Burgess@wwfus.org)