This edition of Nature & Faune journal will be a special Issue to mark the International Year of Soils. It is planned to be issued during the Conference of the African Soil Society taking place in Ouagadougou - Burkina Faso from 2nd to 10th December 2015. The special edition of the journal will feature short articles that address the central theme: "Sustainable soil management: an indispensable need for environmentally sound food security in Africa".

Meeting Name: European Forestry Commission
Meeting symbol/code: ECE/TIM/2015/2 - FO/EFC/15/2
Session: Sess. 38 - Sess.73

Une version abrégée des chapitres 1 à 3 du SOFO 2016: rapport sur la Situation des forêts du monde 2016. Cette brochure de 32 pages inclut les tableaux, figures et messages clés de la publication SOFO, et permet aux lecteurs d’accéder au contenu le plus important dans un format facile à utiliser. Cette brochure est également disponible http://www.fao.org/3/a-i5850e.pdf ">English et en http://www.fao.org/3/a-i5850s.pdf ">Español.

Meeting Name: North American Forest Commission
Meeting symbol/code: FO:NAFC/2016/3.1
Session: Sess. 28

With the continual rise of global commodity prices and increasing population pressures worldwide, the future of agriculture is looking increasingly unstable. As a result of this escalating demand and intensification of unsustainable agricultural techniques, natural resources are facing an increasing threat of depletion.

Meeting Name: Near East Forestry and Range Commission (NEFRC)
Meeting symbol/code: FO:NEFRC/2015/1
Session: Sess. 22

Meeting Name: European Forestry Commission
Meeting symbol/code: FO:EFC/2015/3 - ECE/TIM/2015/3
Session: Sess.38 - Sess.73

This report presents the key findings on forest land use and land-use change between 1990 and 2005 from FAO’s 2010 Global Forest Resources Assessment Remote Sensing Survey. It is the first report of its kind to present systematic estimates of global forest land use and change. The ambitious goal of the Remote Sensing Survey was to use remote sensing data to obtain globally consistent estimates of forest area and changes in tree cover and forest land use between 1990 and 2005.

The front of the postcard provides a short description on Soil salinization and sodification (definition, cause, key facts) while the back gives the worldwide conditions and trends by region. The data given here is derived from information published in the Status of the World's Soil Resources report, released in December 2015.

The Report and the Technical Summary are available at the links below:

Meeting Name: FAO Committee on Forestry
Meeting symbol/code: COFO/2016/8.3
Session: Sess. 23

Session: Sess. 3

Настоящий справочный документ подготовлен для обсуждения вопроса о лесных экосистемных услугах и финансировании устойчивого лесопользования. В нем приводятся некоторые конкретные примеры рыночных механизмов торговли такими лесными экосистемными услугами, как снабжение населения чистой водой, создание возможностей для рекреационной деятельности, сохранение биоразнообразия и смягчение последствий изменения климата посредством секвестрации углерода лесами и замещения древесин ой других материалов.