These measures fit within a much wider context of interventions and areas for research needed to improve management and enhance access to markets for tree products and services in order to support rural livelihoods. For example, more research is required to understand the economic, environmental and other trade-offs for the different sectors of rural societies when NTFPs are converted to AFTPs (or, indeed, to new commodity crops; Dawson et al., 2013; Page, 2003), and more work is needed to ensure equitable relationships between the different participants in market supply chains (Marshall et al., 2006). The further application of incentives devised by international commodity purchasers to support diverse farm production systems is also required. For appropriate policy development, a better quantification
of the relative benefits received by rural communities from different tree production categories is required, supported
by an appropriate typology for characterisation (de Foresta et al., 2013). We hope that this paper will help support this initiative