At the International Conference on Nutrition (ICN) held in December 1992, 159 countries unanimously adopted a World Declaration and Plan of Action for Nutrition which stresses the determination of all actions to work together to eliminate hunger and all forms of malnutrition. Participating governments and other concerned parties pledged to...

The first edition of this document was known as the Harvesting Code of Practice and resulted from a project initiated by Forest Engineering Southern Africa (FESA) in 1992. In the second edition of the document, it was renamed the Guidelines for Forest Engineering Practices in South Africa, and was published...

For decades, we have been seeking ways to manage forests on a sustainable basis. With the years of experience gathered, it is obvious that the technical issues can be surmounted. The limitation is seemingly with opportunity costs — as things stand, forestry is losing out to conversion to other uses...

At its 16th and 17th sessions in 2008 and 2010 respectively, the African Forestry and Wildlife Commission deliberated on the issue of viable community involvement in forest and wildlife management and called upon its members and the international community to implement policies and actions to achieve this. This publication is...

The guidelines address issues and principles of labour standards and their inspection from planting to logging. The guidelines are aimed at labour inspectors/certifiers forest managers, management teams and training and educational organizations. The guidelines are based on the principles contained in relevant ILO Conventions and Recommendations, in particular the ILO...

Guidelines for land-use planning is primarily intended for people engaged in making land-use plans, or those training to do so, including staff of local government, national agencies and international projects in developing countries. The guidelines illustrates all the steps to be taken in order to organize a planning process, it...

This original 2003 version of the HCVF Toolkit for Indonesia served a vital purpose, but overtime became increasingly difficult to use it, so in late 2006 a consortium of HCV users in Indonesia set out to revise and update the Toolkit to improve its usefulness in Indonesia. The Toolkit revision...

These guidelines have been prepared in response to a request from the 12th Session of the Committee on Forestry (13-16 March 1995) which called for a handbook on tropical forest management, aimed at providing practical advice to forest services and to the practicing tropical forest manager in the field. The...

This working paper deals with the guidelines on establishment and management of National Network for monitoring assessment and reporting on forests. The following paragraphs describe the background, principles, process, ownership, responsibilities, work planning, and support to such National Network. This paper also indicates link of these Networks in the Asia...

This document provides information on the national context of dry forests and practical management guidelines adapted to the Ethiopian context. The goal is to fill the information gap, which can allow decision-makers to better understand the true value of dry forests at the national level and take appropriate action. Much...