Library Resource
Reports & Research
December, 2007
United States of America, Chile, Italy, Indonesia, Canada, Gabon, Cameroon, Brazil
FAO has been coordinating global forest resources assessments every five to ten years since 1946 (FAO, 2006), with the objective to provide a periodic global and uniform picture of existing forests, derived trends and statistics. Especially FAO’s periodically reported deforestation rates enjoy a high degree of public attention and are widely cited in literature.