Kenya's Forest Resource Assessment


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EUROPEAN COMMISSION

DIRECTORATE-GENERAL VIII DEVELOPMENT

 

 

Data Collection and Analysis for Sustainable Forest Management in ACP Countries - Linking National and International Efforts

EC-FAO PARTNERSHIP PROGRAMME (1998-2002)

Tropical forestry Budget line B7-6201/97-15/VIII/FOR

PROJECT GCP/INT/679/EC

KENYA'S FOREST RESOURCE ASSESSMENT

By Peter Wass

July, 2000

Addis Ababa

 

 

 

This report has been produced as an out put of the EC-FAO Partnership Programme (1998-2002) - Project GCP/INT/679/EC Data Collection and Analysis for Sustainable Forest Management in ACP Countries - Linking National and International Efforts. The views expressed are those of the authors and should not be attributed to the EC or the FAO.

This paper has been minimally edited for clarity and style


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1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:

2. DESCRIPTION OF FOREST INVENTORIES/SURVEYS

2.1. Vegetation types included

2.2. Area of woody vegetation according to national classification

2.3. Comparability between country classification and FRA 2000 classification

3. VOLUME DATA (OF NATURAL FORESTS)

3.1. Forest Inventory Description

3.2. Inventory methodology

3.3. Inventory Results

4. TOTAL REPORTED AREA, ALL FOREST PLANTATIONS

4.1. Forest plantations for industrial roundwood production

4.2. Proposed future industrial roundwood plantation programmes

4.3. Standing volume of industrial roundwood, derived from inventory

4.4. Estimated mean annual increment (MAI), m3/ha/yr., by main industrial plantation species

4.5. Areas of fuelwood and pole plantations

4.6. Areas of plantations established for environmental and other purposes

5. FOREST AREA BY NATURALNESS

5.1. Forest area by wood supply potential

5.2. Forestland ownership

5.3. Area of forest under management

6. FOREST FIRE SITUATION IN KENYA

6.1. Fire Environment and Fire Regimes in Kenya

6.2. Forest Fires Management

6.3. Forest Fires Statistical Data

6.4. Community Involvement in Fire Management Activities

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