Unasylva - No. 92













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Vol. 23 (1) - Number 92, 1969

An International Review of Forestry and Forest Products

FAO - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

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FAO - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations was founded at Quebec, Canada. in October 1945 when its Member Nations agreed to work together to secure a lasting peace through freedom from want. The membership of FAO now stands at 119 nations.

Director General A.H. BOERMA.

Forestry and Forest Industries Division -

Director B.K. STEENBERG
Deputy Director J.C. WESTOBY
Assistant to Director L.J. VERNELL

Chiefs of Branches
R.G. FONTAINE
S.L. PRINGLE
E. KALKKINEN
L. GIMINEZ-QUINTANA
N. DE FELSÖVANYI
J. SWIDERSKI

Former Directors
19476-58 MARCEL LELOUP
1959-63 EGON GLESINGER
1964-68 NILS A. OSARA

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Cover. Fuelwood is still delivered in the capital of one of the most sophisticated of forestry countries, Sweden. The load waits below the Town Hall in Stockholm on the banks of Lake Mälaren. The Stadshuset is considered to be one of the most artistic modern buildings in Europe.

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United Nations development programme

B.K. Steenberg
Forestry in FAO

Dennis Healey
British forestry commission 1919-69

Eero Kalkkinen
Siberia: some impressions of a traveller

Work of FAO

FAO committee on forestry
African forestry commission

Equipment section

News of the world

Canada
China (Taiwan)
Haiti
Morocco
Spain
United Kingdom
United States of America

Supplement

Peitsa Mikola
Afforestation of treeless areas

Ceres

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