Unasylva - No. 146 - Women in forestry













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Vol. 36
1984/4

An international journal of forestry and forest industries

FAO - Food and agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Editor: Robert Wazeka

Consulting Editor: Marcelle Biagini

Editorial Advisory Board

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

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Editorial

Louise Fortmann and Dianne Rocheleau
Why agroforestry needs women: Four myths and a case study

Shobita Jain
Standing up for trees: Women's role in the Chipko Movement

Mercedes Wiff
Honduras: Women make a start in agroforestry

Pia Bergman, Gloria L. Scott, Augusta Molnar, Paula J. Williams, Carol J. Pierce Colfer
Perspectives

Lori-Ann Thrupp
Women, wood and work: In Kenya and beyond

Cerenilla A. Cruz
Women's progress in forestry: Examples from the Philippines and the United States

The world of forestry

COFO looks beyond 2000
Latin American forestry policy
Peasant forest plantations in Cuzco
A glance at the Brutia pine
Deforestation in the Dominican Republic
The forests of Japan
Progress made in watershed management
Fire-fighting success
New forest research project

Books

Two very different forest inventories
Forest ecosystems in Africa
An international glossary of tropical woods
Using bibliographical data banks
Bamboos in Ecuador
Rwanda's woods
Forest ecology research
A North American itinerary
Silviculture and rural development
Classifying Peru's trees
Wood transport
Sixty important species
Forest bibliography of Peru
Costs of roundwood extraction and transport
Afforestation needs incentives

Environment

FAO assists Laos
A conservation NGO in China
New magazine about acidification
Peru opens conservation data centre
Protecting the flamingo in Chile

FAO forestry papers

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