Unasylva - No. 157-158 - Small-scale forest enterprises













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Vol. 39

1987/3 & 4

An international journal of forestry and forest industries

FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome

Editor a.i.
Richard Pardo

Language Editor
Roberta Mitchell

Layout Editor
Marina Criscuolo

Consulting Editors
Fay Banoun, Marcelle Biagini,
Griselda Gomez, Farhana Haque

Editorial Assistant
Antoinette Fernandez Van Asten

Editorial Advisory Board
Forestry Department: M.R. de Montalembert (Chairman). B. Ben Salem, C. Chandrasekharan, A. Contreras, B. Kyrklund, M.K. Muthoo, C. Palmberg, R.D. Pardo
Publications Division:
K. Richmond (Editorial Branch)

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cover: R. Dickerson
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Table of Contents


Editorial: Small-scale forest enterprises

Edouard Saouma
The future of the forests: implementing the Tropical Forestry Action Plan

Bellagio Strategy Meeting on Tropical Forests calls for policy reforms

Statement of the Bellagio Strategy Meeting on Tropical Forests
The Conference recommendations

J.E.M. Arnold, M.E. Chipeta and Y. Fisseha
The importance of small forest-based processing enterprises in developing countries

M. Kinyanjui
Fuelling Nairobi the importance of small-scale charcoaling enterprises

K. Kilander
Cooperatives for the promotion of forestry in rural development

Arnoldo Contreras
Transnational corporations in the forest-based sector of developing countries

H.F. Maitre
Natural forest management in Côte d'Ivoire

J.D. Keita
Wood or charcoal - which is better?

J. Burley
International forestry research networks - objectives, problems and management

D. Pandey
A Unasylva technical note: Yield model of plantations in the tropics

The world of forestry

They call it Scrimber
Edible pine pollen
Agroforestry trials in Gabon
Briquettes instead of fuelwood

Books

Trees for energy in Central America
Rich forests, poor soils
A manual on Prosopis tamarugo
Preserving wood in the tropics
How to make charcoal

Environment

Ecological park saves an archaeological heritage
Measuring forest's breath

To the editor

Index 1981-1986

Authors
Subjects

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