The Forest Plantation Thematic Papers report on issues and activities in forest plantations as prepared for FRA 2000. These working papers do not reflect any official position of FAO. Please refer to the FAO website (http://www.fao.org/forestry) for official information.
The purpose of these papers is to provide early information on on-going activities and programmes, and to stimulate discussion.
Comments and feedback are welcome.
For further information please contact:
Mr. Jim Carle, Senior Forestry Officer (Plantations and
Protection),
Forest Resources Development Service
Forest Resources Division
Forestry Department
FAO
Viale delle Terme di Caracalla
I-00100 Rome (Italy)
e-mail: [email protected]
For quotation:
FAO (2001). Future production from forest plantations. Report based on the work of C Brown. Forest Plantation Thematic Papers, Working Paper 13. Forest Resources Development Service, Forest Resources Division. FAO, Rome (unpublished).
Please Note: The figures in this paper are estimated forest plantation areas in 1995, based on a revision to the statistics collected in the 1990 forest resources assessment. More up-to-date forest plantation statistics will be published when the 2000 forest resources assessment is published in 2001.
