Vol. 1: Socio-economic, resources and non-wood products statistics. Vol. 2: Wood products statistics

The central message which emerges from this meeting was that modernization is above all an issue of human-ware. It is quite noteworthy to see that, although most participants to the meeting were engineers, almost every paper and almost all questions and points of discussion dealt with…

A synthesis of available data on social and economic factors, forest resources and nonwood forest products production and trade in the Asia-Pacific region. This study draws together information from a variety of statistical databases and from country and thematic studies in this working paper…

Meeting symbol/code: SIDS 99 Inf.-Sum 4

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Meeting symbol/code: SIDS 99 Inf.-Sum 4

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Meeting symbol/code: SIDS 99 Inf.5

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Meeting symbol/code: SIDS 99 Inf.-Sum 4

The range of efforts required to develop the full potential of NWFPs is wide indeed. Land-use and forest policies need to be evaluated and where necessary adapted to ensure that potential impacts on non-wood forest resources and products are taken into consideration. Increased research on the…

Marine capture fisheries have developed very quickly in the past decade as reflected by the rapid increase in the number of fishing vessels. Total fishing effort has grown from 42,779 vessels in 1975 to 273,978 in 1995 or in terms of horsepower from 2,150,000 kW to 9,801,000 kW. Meanwhile total…