WP 7 - Objectives

Gather and organize the information about uses of and trade in palms and palm products, and their management and its implications and perspectives, and make the material available via a palm-specific internet portal (and WP8)

Specific objectives: 1. Compile and organize all relevant information about use and trade of palm products, and impacts on and responses of ecosystems providing palm products. 2. Make the information available through the EDIT portal presenting data regarding the individual palm genera and species to the public and scientific domains.