State of the World's Forests 2007 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Rome, 2007

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Foreword (Download- 151 KB)

Acknowledgements (Download- 151 KB)

Acronyms (Download- 151 KB)

Summary (Download- 151 KB)

Part I
Progress towards sustainable forest management (Download- 131 KB)

Africa (Download- 1.4 MB)

Asia and the Pacific (Download- 1 MB)

Europe (Download- 849 KB)

Latin America and the Caribbean (Download- 891 KB)

Near East (Download- 1 MB)

North America (Download- 1.2 MB)

The global view (Download- 667 KB)

Part II
Selected issues in the forest sector (Download- 612 KB)

Climate change

Desertification

Forest landscape restoration

Forestry and poverty reduction

Forestry sector outlook

Forest tenure

Harvesting

Invasive species

Monitoring, assessment and reporting

Mountain development

Payment for environmental services

Planted forests

Trade in forest products

Urban forestry

Voluntary tools

Water

Wildlife management

Wood energy

Annex (Download- 561 KB)

Table 1

Basic data on countries and areas

Table 2

Forest area and area change

Table 3

Forest growing stock, biomass and carbon

Table 4

Production, trade and consumption of roundwood and sawnwood

Table 5

Production, trade and consumption of wood-based panels, pulp and paper

Table 6

Status of ratification of international conventions and agreements

References (Download- 217 KB)