Unasylva - No. 159 - Tropical forestry action plan for Latin America













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Vol. 40

1988/1

An international journal of the forestry and food industries

FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

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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Table of Contents


Editorial: The TFAP and forestry for sustainable development

An interview with Mr D.J. Walton, Deputy Director-General, FAO
Bellagio: Advocacy and action for tropical forestry

A. Contreras
A regional TFAP for Latin America and the Caribbean

J. Evans
The Usutu forest: Twenty years later

J. Amyot
Forest land for people: A forestry village project in northeast Thailand

A.P. Robinson
Charcoal-making in Somalia: A look the bay method

The world of forestry

FAO Committee on Forest Development in the Tropics
Paper from tequila

Books

Duty to the public interest
Forestry in the African Sahel
Endangered trees databook
Tropical trees: An identification atlas

Environment

Letter to the editor

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