FAO strategic plan for forestry

Current Priority Activities

1. Global forestry statistics and information (more information)

• Development of a forestry information system
• Global forest resources assessment
• Forestry sector outlook studies

2. Technologies and methodologies for the conservation and sustainable use of trees, wooded lands and forests

• Technical support to sustainable forest and wildlife management, including developing and harmonization of criteria and indicators of sustainable forest management
• Support to activities in afforestation and reforestation, especially in countries with low forest cover
• Encouragement of the adoption of codes of environmentally sound harvesting and utilization practices, and increasing conversion efficiency
• Promotion of non-wood forest products, including their management, utilization and marketing.

3. Policy and institution strengthening

• Support to national forest programmes, especially capacity building
• Community Forestry Programme

4. Support to international processes influencing forests

• The post-UNCED conventions
• New forest arrangements
• The ad hoc Inter-Agency Task Force on Forests (ITFF)
• The International Year of Mountains 2002