Newsletter Number 9
October/November 2002

Call for Feedback
One of our priorities now is to encourage people to give us feedback about our programme. To this end we have issued a questionnaire, which is being mailed to colleagues. A copy of this is also available on this website. To find this, select the 'Feedback' button, and either copy the form and send it in by post, or answer as many questions as you can by email to Martin Walters (see below). This will help us gauge the practical value of our products and adapt our outputs, as well as judge the effectiveness of our methods of distribution. The whole team is very grateful for your help in this matter.

Website Visits
Some statistics are now available on the visits to this website, and the encouraging news is that from May 2002 through August 2002 there were 266,044 successful requests. In fact, visits to People & Plants accounted for more than 5.5% of all visits to the Kew site. This is most heartening, and it will be interesting to keep a watch on these numbers in the months ahead.

People and Plants Handbook: Issue 8
The new Handbook is now available, and a version will be added to the website in the near future. This now functions as the main printed newsletter of People and Plants, and is a source of information on applying ethnobotany to conservation and community development. It also highlights the range of materials produced.

New Working Papers
The following working papers are now available:
Working Paper 8. Ethnobotany of the Loita Maasai
Working Paper 9. Projek Etnobotani Kinabalu
Working Paper 10. An economic evaluation of medicinal tree cultivation: Prunus africana in Cameroon.
For details of these, and for html and pdf versions, go to the publications section of the website.

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The newsletter, reflecting a selection of the many activities of People and Plants, is compiled by:
Martin Walters
People & Plants Editor and Web-manager