Summary of conference proceedings incorporating the text of papers presented
Feeding cities plus the rising total of poor urban households in developing countries and countries in transition is the challenge facing City and Local Authorities. This guide intends to brief the Mayors, City Executives and Urban Planners, including specialists in food production, market development, public health, environment, forestry and agroforestry, on the compelling need for food supply and distribution policies and programmes. These would lower the cost of accessing food by low-income households in their cities and stimulate private investment.
A full description of the forest sector in the Togolese Republic. The first part of the report underlines the differences between the natural forest versus the plantations and the availability of forest resources in the country. In addition, the second part also includes a synopsis of what forest products are consumed and those exported. The second part of the report describes the actual state of the statistics of these products. It comments the most important forest products like present situation in the country like construction wood, fuelwood, charcoal, round wood and sawn timber.
Proceedings of the meeting including a summary of the resulting recommendations and the text of papers presented.
Meeting symbol/code: ARC 00 5
This medium-size report identifies the overall situation of data related to fuelwood in Mali. The first part is a very brief introduction to the situation in the country. The second part is a summary of the agro-ecological situation in Mali followed by a third part that identifies the principal production and consumption figures of wood energy. The fourth part is a comparison between the data made available by FAO and that collected in the field while the last part analyses the past, present and future trends of fuelwood use at the national and private level.
Based on the information collected during a survey in the Republic of Guinea, this study concentrates on the country's main NWFPs. Among these are medical plants, tooth picks, cola nuts, shea tree nuts, honey, food plants, palm wine, bushmeat, rattan, bamboo, and wild fruits. Also, past, present and future tendencies are investigated in relation to consumption, commercialisation and export of these products. Furthermore, national legislation surrounding NWFP is analysed as are the potentials and weaknesses of the information gathering process.
Meeting symbol/code: ARC 00 5
Un rapport complet, long de quarante-trois pages qui traite de l'état général des données sur les ressources forestières en Mauritanie. Il est composé de sept parties principales ; la première partie est une introduction générale des caractéristiques géographiques, démographiques etc. du pays pendant que la deuxième partie est un compte-rendu détaillé de l'importance et de la répartition des plantations forestières en fonction des zones écologiques du pays. La troisième et la quatrième partie exposent des détailles sur l'évolution et la structure de ces surfaces forestières.
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