INFORMATION
NOTE ON ASIA-PACIFIC FORESTRY SECTOR OUTLOOK STUDY
At its sixteenth session held in Yangon, Myanmar, in January 1996,
the Asia-Pacific Forestry Commission, which has membership open to all
governments in the Asia-Pacific region, decided to carry out an outlook
study for forestry with horizon year 2010. The study is being coordinated
by FAO through its regional office in Bangkok and its Headquarters in
Rome, but is being implemented in close partnership with governments,
many of which have nominated national focal points.
The scope of the study is to look at the main external and sectoral
developments in policies, programmes and institutions that will affect
the forestry sector and to assess from this the likely direction of
its evolution and to present its likely situation in 2010. The study
involves assessment of current status but also of trends from the past
and the main forces which are shaping those trends and then builds on
this to explore future prospects.
Working papers have been contributed or commissioned on a wide range
of topics. They fall under the following categories: country profiles,
selected in-depth country or sub-regional studies and thematic studies.
Working papers are prepared by individual authors or groups of authors
on their own professional responsibility; therefore, the opinions expressed
in them do not necessarily reflect the views of their employers, the
governments of the Asia-Pacific Forestry Commission or of the Food and
Agriculture Organization. In preparing the substantive report to be
presented at the next session of the Asia-Pacific Forestry Commission
early in 1998, material from these working papers will be an important
element but will be blended and interpreted alongside a lot of other
material.
Working papers are being produced and issued as they arrive. Some effort
at uniformity of presentation is being attempted but the contents are
only minimally edited for style or clarity. FAO welcomes from readers
any information which they feel would be useful to the study on the
subject of any of the working papers or on any other subject that has
importance for the Asia-Pacific forestry sector. Such material can be
mailed to the contacts given below from whom further copies of these
working papers, as well as more information on the Asia-Pacific Forestry
Sector Study, can be obtained:
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