Revista internacional de silvicultura e industrias forestales

Meeting Name: Committee on Forestry
Meeting symbol/code: COFO/2014/Inf.1

Unasylva examina el significado de los bosques para la seguridad alimentaria, formulando la siguiente pregunta: Cmo hacer que los programas y actividades de desarrollo forestal sirvan para asegurar econmica y materialmente a todo el mundo, en todo momento, el acceso a su alimento? En el artculo de fondo M. Hoskins expone cmo contribuyen - y cmo podrn contribuir - los bosques a la seguridad alimentaria, y sugiere estrategias para incorporar a las actividades de desarrollo forestal elementos de seguridad alimentaria.

This special issue of Unasylva has two main objectives. It brings to our readers an edited selection of some of the position papers of the important 4th Session of the FAO Committee on Forestry Development in the Tropics and, in doing, this, it emphasizes FAO's principal concern in the field of forestry: how to make the best and wisest use of man's least understood ecological formation, the moist tropical forest.

Revue internationale des forts et des industries forestires

Meeting Name: FAO Committee on Forestry
Meeting symbol/code: COFO/2016/7.5
Session: Sess. 23

Para que los proyectos para el desarrollo reduzcan la pobreza rural tendrán que restablecer el equilibrio entre las mujeres y sus recursos forestales. Esta publicación describe la importancia que tienen par alas mujeres los productos forestales, las difficultades que ellas experimentan actualmente cuando intentan obtenerlos, y lo que se puede hacer para mejorar la situación.

Globally, according to FRA 2000, planted forests account ed for only 5% of forest area, but up to 35% of industrial roundwood supply. This is anticipated to rise to 40-44% by 2020. Planted forests reflect a higher social, environmental and economic importance than their area would suggest. Many countries have existing planted forest data that is not based upon forest inventory, is incomplete and often outdated. Thus it is difficult to measure and plan the quantity and quality of planted forest resources and the provision of goods and services that they supply.

”Enhancing country capacity for United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change reporting processes for the Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use sector: Uruguay” summarizes the support provided by FAO between 2014 and 2015 to the government of Uruguay, through the Monitoring and Assessment of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Mitigation in Agriculture (MAGHG) project.

Meeting Name: FAO Committee on Forestry
Meeting symbol/code: COFO/2016/10
Session: Sess. 23

Meeting symbol/code: FO:LACFC/2015/6
Session: Sess. 29