DRAFT FOR COMMENTS
The Forest Resources Assessment Programme
Forests are crucial for the well-being of humanity. They provide foundations for life on earth through ecological functions, by regulating the climate and water resources, and by serving as habitats for plants and animals. Forests also furnish a wide range of essential goods such as wood, food, fodder and medicines, in addition to opportunities for recreation, spiritual renewal and other services.
Today, forests are under pressure from expanding human populations, which frequently leads to the conversion or degradation of forests into unsustainable forms of land use. When forests are lost or severely degraded, their capacity to function as regulators of the environment is also lost, increasing flood and erosion hazards, reducing soil fertility, and contributing to the loss of plant and animal life. As a result, the sustainable provision of goods and services from forests is jeopardized.
FAO, at the request of the member nations and the world community, regularly monitors the world’s forests through the Forest Resources Assessment Programme. The next report, the Global Forest Resources Assessment 2000 (FRA 2000), will review the forest situation by the end of the millennium. FRA 2000 will include country-level information based on existing forest inventory data, regional investigations of land-cover change processes, and a number of global studies focusing on the interaction between people and forests. The FRA 2000 report will be made public and distributed on the world wide web in the year 2000.
The Forest Resources Assessment Programme is organized under the Forest Resources Division (FOR) at FAO headquarters in Rome. Contact persons are:
Robert Davis FRA Programme Coordinator [email protected]
Peter Holmgren FRA Project Director [email protected]
or use the e-mail address: [email protected]
DISCLAIMER
The Forest Resources Assessment (FRA) Working Paper Series is designed to reflect the activities and progress of the FRA Programme of FAO. Working Papers are not authoritative information sources – they do not reflect the official position of FAO and should not be used for official purposes. Please refer to the FAO forestry website (www.fao.org/forestry/index.jsp) for access to official information.
The FRA Working Paper Series provides an important forum for the rapid release of preliminary FRA 2000 findings needed for validation and to facilitate the final development of an official quality-controlled FRA 2000 information set. Should users find any errors in the documents or have comments for improving their quality they should contact either Robert Davis or Peter Holmgren at [email protected]
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BEF |
Biomass Expansion Factor |
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BV |
Biomass of inventoried volume |
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CATIE |
Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza |
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Cirad |
Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement |
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EDC |
Eros Data Centre |
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FAO |
Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations |
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FORIS |
Forest Resources Information System |
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FRA |
Forest Resources Assessment |
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GIS |
Geographic Information System |
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NWFP |
Non wood forest products |
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SNU |
Sub National Unit(s) |
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UN-ECE |
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe |
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VOB |
Volume Over Bark |
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WD |
Wood Density |
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WCMC |
World Conservation Monitoring Centre |
1. Introduction
2. ARGENTINA
2.1 Status of NWFP statistics
2.2 Non-wood goods and services
2.3 Non-wood goods
2.4 References
2.5 Resource Persons
3. BOLIVIA
3.1 State of NWFP statistics4. BRAZIL
3.2 Non-wood goods and services
3.3 Non-wood goods
3.4 Other NWF plant products
3.5 References
3.6 Resource Persons
4.1 Status of NWFP statistics
4.2 Non-wood goods and services
4.3 Non-wood goods
4.4 Other NWF plant products
4.4 References
4.5 Resource Persons
5. CHILE
5.1 State of NWFP statistics6. COLOMBIA
5.2 Non-wood goods and services
5.3 Non-wood goods
5.4 Other food products
5.4 References
5.5 Resource People
6.1 State of NWFP statistics
6.2 Non-wood goods and services
6.3 Non-wood goods
6.4 Other NWF plant products
6.5 Important Commercial Wild Animals
6.6 References
6.7 Resource Persons
7. CUBA
7.1 State of NWFP statistics
7.2 Non-wood goods and services
7.3 Non-wood goods
7.4 Other NWF plant products
7.5 References
7.6 Resource Persons
8. ECUADOR
8.1 State of NWFP statistics
8.2 Non-wood goods and services
8.3 Non-wood goods
8.4 References
8.5 Resource Persons
9. FRENCH GUIANA
9.1 State of NWFP statistics
9.2 Non-wood goods and services
9.3 References
9.4 Resource Persons
10. MEXICO
10.1 Status of NWFP statistics
10.2 Non-wood goods and services
10.3 Non-wood goods
10.4 Other NWF plant products
10.5 References
10.6 Resource Persons
11. PARAGUAY
11.1 State of NWFP statistics
11.2 Non-wood goods and services
11.3 Non-wood goods
11.4 Other NWF plant products
11.5 References
11.6 Resource Persons
12. PERU
12.1 State of NWFP statistics
12.2 Non-wood goods and services
12.3 Non-wood goods
12.4 References
12.5 Resource Persons
13. URUGUAY
13.1 State of NWFP statistics
13.2 Non-wood goods and services
13.3 Non-wood goods
13.4 References
13.5 Resource Persons
14. VENEZUELA
14.1 State of NWFP statisticsAppendix 1: Tables
14.2 Non-wood goods and services
14.3 Non-wood goods
14.4 References
14.5 Resource Persons
Appendix 2: Contacts
Paper drafted by: Dennis Johnson
Drafted by: Patrizia Pugliese