In this issue, we look at the launch of the new Global Soil Partnership and examine the next steps. We also look report on FAO’s collaboration with NASA to create an international fire-reporting system, the Global Fire Information Management System, which delivers key data to remote regions of developing countries. Finally, we introduce FAO-MOSAICC, an integrated package of models to carry out climate change impact assessment at the national level.

Meeting Name: FAO Regional Conference for Africa (ARC)
Meeting symbol/code: ARC/16/INF/16
Session: Sess. 29

This training package examines conflict within forest resource use and community-based forest management and offers strategies for managing it. It aims to support diverse and multiple forest user groups to manage conflicts that inevitably arise in the protection, use and control of forest resources. It has been prepared primarily for trainers who help people and organizations that work collaboratively in community forestry.

This report looks at the future development of forestry in Uganda taking into account factors both within and outside the sector that influence change.

The purpose of planning for forestry development is to establish a workable framework for forest use and conservation which incorporates the economic, social and environmental dimensions on a sustainable basis. The framework is about creating a shared vision of how forests will be used and protected. This can be summed up in a single central question: Trees and forests for whom and for what? The question is not new but what is new is the perception that so many different groups have an interest in the reply.

Meeting symbol/code: FO:LACFC/2015/Inf.2
Session: Sess. 29

Revue internationale des forts et des industries forestires

This Working Paper presents the outlook for policies in the main sectors influencing the forest and forest products sector: demographic and social affairs, economy, energy, environment, landuse and regional development, agriculture, industry, trade, construction and the public sector. For each, policy issues and options are explored, as well as their implications for the forest and forest industries sector. A “base scenario” for future policies in these areas is also presented.

Revue internationale des forts et des industries forestires

A complete 60-page report covering some of the general aspects of natural forests in Rwanda. It is composed of three chapters that cover various topics like mountain forests, relictual areas, savinocol formations, forest plantations, etc. The last part synthesises the country's forest resources and their uses.

تساهم الغابات مساهمة بعيدة الأثر في رفاه البشر. فالغابات توفر إمدادات حيوية من الأخشاب، وتساعد على مكافحة الفقر في المناطق الريفية وضمان الأمن الغذائي وتوفير سبل المعيشة اللائقة. وهي تقدم فرصاً واعدة للنمو الأخضر على المدى المتوسط، كما أنها تقدم خدمات بيئية حيوية على المدى البعيد، مثل الهواء والماء النظيفين والتنوع البيولوجي والتخفيف من وطأة تغ ّير المناخ. تساهم الغابات مساهمة بعيدة الأثر في رفاه البشر. فالغابات توفر إمدادات حيوية من الأخشاب، وتساعد على مكافحة الفقر في المناطق الريفية وضمان الأمن الغذائي وتوفير سبل المعيشة اللائقة.