Unasylva - No. 88













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Vol. 22 (1)

1968

AN INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF FORESTRY AND FOREST INDUSTRIES

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 N.A. OSARA
Deputy
Director J.C WESTOBY
Assistant to
Director L.J. VERNELL

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

Former Directors

1946-58 MARCEL LELOUP
1959-63 EGON GLESINGER

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

Signed articles express the opinions of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the Organization.

It is set in a forest of pines and cedars in that part of the Aurès massif devastated during the war of independence.

Cover: In eastern Algeria the largest development project ever approved by the United Nations/FAO World Food Program involves the provision of wheat, vegetable oil, dried skim milk and sugar to workers engaged in reforestation and conservation operations executed by an Algerian organization called Chanters populaires de reboisement. The picture shows the Organization's technical training center built with Swiss aid on the slopes of Mount Chelia. It is set in a forest of pines and cedars in that part of the Aurès massif devastated during the war of independence.

This electronic document has been scanned using optical character recognition (OCR) software and careful manual recorrection. Even if the quality of digitalisation is high, the FAO declines all responsibility for any discrepancies that may exist between the present document and its original printed version.


Table of Contents


Addeke H. Boerma

Ivar Samset
Trends in forestry and their challenge to research

FAO secretariat
Forestry projects of the United Nations development program

Bela Kerestesi
Forest tree improvement in Hungary

H.L. Teller
Impact of forest land use on floods

FAO secretariat
Twentieth anniversary of the ECE Timber Committee

FAO secretariat
Commodity report - Expansion of exports of forest products from developing countries - Part 1

Work of FAO

North American forestry commission
Near East Forestry Commission
Latin American Forestry Commission
Personnel
FAO coin plan

Equipment section

News of the world

Belgium
Brazil
Denmark
Finland
Germany, Federal Republic of
Italy
Malaysia
Romania
Sweden
Turkey
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
United Kingdom
West Irian

Books received

Where to purchase FAO publications locally - Points de vente des publications de la FAO - Puntos de venta de publicaciones de la FAO