Unasylva - No. 93













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Vol. 23 (2) - Number 93, 1969

An International Review of Forestry and Forest Products

FAO - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

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FAO -The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations was founded at Quebec, Canada, in October 1945 when its Member Nations agreed to work together to secure a lasting peace through freedom from want. The membership of FAO now stands at 119 nations.

Director General A.H. BOERMA

Forestry and Forest Industries Division -

Director B.K. STEENBERG
Deputy Director J.C. WESTOBY
Assistant to Director L.J. VERNELL

Chiefs of Branches
R.G. FONTAINE
S.L. PRINGLE
E. KALKKINEN
I,. GIMENEZ-QUINTANA
N. DE FELSÖVANYI
J. SWIDERSKI

Former Directors
1946-58 MARCEL LELOUP
1959-63 EGON GLESINGER
1964-68 NIBS A. OSARA

Unasylva - Started in 1947, this quarterly publication, edited by L.J. Vernell, is intended to cover a range of interests as wide as that of the Division whose work it mirrors.

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Cover. The announcement that Argentina will act as host for the Seventh World Forestry Congress makes topical this rather unusual picture of Araucaria pine forest in the Sierras forming the boundary between Argentina and Chile. This is near one of the areas that may be visited by Congress participants.

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Seventh world forestry congress

R. ST. Barbe Baker
The Sahara: an ever-present challenge

FAO Secretariat
FAO and Sahara reclamation

S.D. Richardson
Training for forest industries and timber marketing

Commodity report

Broadleaved forest resources of the world
Broadleaved logs - supply, processing and product use

Work of FAO

Asia-Pacific forestry commission

Equipment section

News of the world

Nepal
United Kingdom
Venezuela

FAO publications

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