This case study is one of a series of publications produced by the Forest Harvesting, Trade and Marketing Branch of FAO in an effort to promote environmentally sound forest harvesting and engineering practices. The purpose of these studies is to highlight both the promise of environmentally sound forest harvesting technologies as a component of sustainable forest management, and the constraints that must be overcome in order to assure widespread adoption of those technologies.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2002Mozambique, Chile, Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Suriname, Congo, Ethiopia, Costa Rica, Nepal, Republic of Korea, Philippines, Malaysia, Italy, Tanzania, Brazil, Bhutan, Papua New Guinea, Austria
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2002Estonia, Kenya, Israel, China, Indonesia, Australia, Ireland, Ghana, Congo, Venezuela, Guinea, Guyana, Colombia, Nepal, Uganda, Tanzania, Portugal, India, Senegal, Brazil
¿Es mejor, y se administra mejor, un bosque con 1 000 especies que un bosque con 500 especies? Este número de Unasylva trata de cuestiones relacionadas con la diversidad biológica forestal y su conservación y uso sostenible. Una de las conclusiones básicas es que los números no son lo único que importa.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2002Indonesia, Finland, Armenia, United States of America
La Evaluacin de los recursos forestales mundiales 2000 (ERF 2000) ha concluido, pero ya han empezado los trabajos para la prxima evaluacin mundial. La consulta de expertos sobre Evaluaciones de recursos forestales mundiales - Conjuncin de esfuerzos nacionales e internacionales, conocida como Kotka IV, reuni a expertos internacionales en julio de 2002 para considerar ideas y estrategias para el futuro. Los artculos de este nmero de Unasylva son adaptaciones para un pblico ms amplio de documentos preparados para la reunin.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2002Kenya, Switzerland, United States of America, Uganda, Australia, Denmark, Italy, Tanzania, Poland, United Kingdom, Ghana, India, Finland, Indonesia, New Zealand
Is a forest with 1 000 species better, and managed better, than a forest with 500 species? This issue of Unasylva looks at issues related to forest biological diversity and its conservation and sustainable use. One of the key messages is that numbers are not the only issue.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2002Bangladesh, Kenya, Mali, Namibia, Indonesia, Bolivia, Ethiopia, Niger, Nepal, Laos, Nicaragua, Uganda, Kyrgyzstan, Cambodia, India, Mexico, Brazil, Africa, Asia
Section 1 will examine current debates around poverty, vulnerability and livelihood issues related to access to natural resources. Section 2 will describe the main features of the sustainable livelihoods approaches and relate them to current thinking about access to natural resources. Section 3 will describe and categorise the different types of problems and opportunities that the rural poor face with respect to access to natural resources.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2002Laos, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Cambodia, India, Pakistan, Republic of Korea, China, Thailand, Asia
A report of the proceedings of the October 2001 regional consultation on the above theme, the document explains the urgent need for arresting and reversing the decline in investment in land and water development in Asia-Pacific countries. Land and water investment priorities include coping with worsening land degradation, increasing productivity of the region’s large rainfed areas and modernising wasteful water delivery and irrigation systems.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2002Angola, Fiji, Bangladesh, China, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Vanuatu, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Italy, Cameroon, Thailand, Laos, Philippines, Malaysia, Japan, Australia, Madagascar, Myanmar, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, India, Vietnam, Papua New Guinea, Asia, Africa
According to an estimate made by the International Network for Bamboo and Rattan (INBAR), the global local usage of rattan is worth US$ 2.5 billion and external trade of rattan is estimated to generate US$ 4 billion. Seven hundred million people worldwide use rattan. Most of the raw material for local processing and for supplying the rattan industry is still obtained by harvesting of unmanaged, wild rattan resources in natural tropical forests. Only a very small share is obtained from rattan plantations.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2002Algeria, Nigeria, Afghanistan, Indonesia, Australia, Canada, Iran, Malawi, Pakistan, Ethiopia, New Zealand, Kenya, Jordan, Malaysia, Haiti, Eritrea, Brazil, Tunisia, Sudan, Vietnam, Uruguay
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2002Bangladesh, China, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Iran, Costa Rica, New Zealand, Nepal, Jordan, Pakistan, Philippines, Libya, Malaysia, Myanmar, Cambodia, India, Sudan, Mongolia, Netherlands, Asia
A quarterly news bulletin dedicated to the exchange of information relating to wildlife and national resources management for the Asia-Pacific region.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2002Spain, Afghanistan, China, Indonesia, Iran, Republic of Korea, Thailand, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, Turkmenistan, Myanmar, India, Bhutan, Vietnam, Mongolia, Asia
A quarterly news bulletin dedicated to the exchange of information relating to wildlife and national resources management for the Asia-Pacific region.
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