Unasylva - No. 148 - Forestry in FAO













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Vol. 37
1985/2

An international journal of forestry and forest industries

FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Editor Robert Wazeka
Consulting Editors Marcelle Biagini
Editorial Advisory Board

Forestry Department:
J.E.M. Arnold (Chairman), B. Ben,
Salem. C. Chandrasekharan. A.
Contreras. M.R. de Montalembert,
B. Kyrklund, M.K. Muthoo, C. Palmberg.
R.D. Pardo. R. Wazeka (secretary)
Publications Division:
K Richmond (Editorial Branch)

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Table of Contents


40 years of forestry at FAO: 1945-85

Sir John Boyd Orr
One world - One forest

R.G. Fontaine
Forty years of forestry at FAO: Some personal reflections

Marcel Leloup
The first ten years

André Marie A. Aubréville
The disappearance of the tropical forests of Africa

E.I. Kotok
Technical assistance: Forestry and the Point Four Program

Vasconcelos Sobrinho
Technical assistance: A view from Brazil

FAO forestry staff
The forest crop of the future: Quality or quantity?

Dr Eduardo Pesqueira Olea, Secretary of Agriculture and Water Resources, the United Mexican States
Forestry in Mexico

Clare Oxby
Forest farmers: The transformation of land use and society in eastern Madagascar

The world of forestry

FAO in Latin America and the Caribbean
IUFRO World Congress
The role of gaps in forest growth
Forest prisons

Books

Forest policy: One step forward
Law: The meeting-point of ecology and economics
Conifer predators
Protecting Mediterranean natural areas
Reconstructing forests
Fuelwood in Central America: Two new books
Amazonian woods

Environment

Monitoring arid lands in Kenya
Harmonizing environment and development
The importance of bats

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