Rome, 2004
The Forest Resources Assessment Programme
Forests are crucial for the well being of humanity. They provide foundations for life on earth through ecological functions, by regulating the climate and water resources and by serving as habitats for plants and animals. Forests also furnish a wide range of essential goods such as wood, food, fodder and medicines, in addition to opportunities for recreation, spiritual renewal and other services.
Today, forests are under pressure from increasing demands of land-based products and services, which frequently leads to the conversion or degradation of forests into unsustainable forms of land use. When forests are lost or severely degraded, their capacity to function as regulators of the environment is also lost, increasing flood and erosion hazards, reducing soil fertility and contributing to the loss of plant and animal life. As a result, the sustainable provision of goods and services from forests is jeopardized.
FAO, at the request of the member nations and the world community, regularly monitors the world’s forests through the Forest Resources Assessment Programme. The Global Forest Resources Assessment 2000 (FRA 2000) reviewed the forest situation by the end of the millennium. FRA 2000 included country-level information based on existing forest inventory data, regional investigations of land-cover change processes and a number of global studies focusing on the interaction between people and forests. The FRA 2000 Main report is published in print and is available on the World Wide Web.
The Global Forest Resources Assessment update 2005 (FRA 2005) has been requested by the FAO Committee on Forestry in 2003. The FRA 2005 will use common thematic areas of the Criteria for Sustainable Forest Management as a reporting framework. FRA 2005 will also focus on the specific conditions and issues in each country.
The Forest Resources Assessment Programme is organized under the Forest Resources Division (FOR) at FAO headquarters in Rome. Contact person is:
Peter Holmgren, Chief FORM [email protected]
Mette Løyche Wilkie, Senior Forestry Officer [email protected]
or use the e-mail address: [email protected]
The Forest Resources Assessment (FRA) Working Paper Series is designed to reflect the activities and progress of the FRA Programme of FAO. Working Papers are not authoritative information sources – they do not reflect the official position of FAO and should not be used for official purposes. Please refer to the FAO forestry website (www.fao.org/forestry) for access to official information.
The FRA Working Paper Series provides an important forum for the rapid release of preliminary findings needed for validation and to facilitate the final development of official quality-controlled publications. Should users find any errors in the documents or have comments for improving their quality they should contact [email protected].
This document is being used for training purposes to provide information related to the process of the Global Forestry Resources Assessment 2005 update (FRA 2005). It does not reflect the official position or authoritative information on the country being assessed.
1 Table T1 -
Extent of Forest and Other wooded land
1.1 FRA 2005 Categories and definitions
1.2 National data
2 Table T2 - Ownership of
Forest and Other wooded land
2.1 FRA 2005 Categories and definitions
2.2 National data
3 Table T3 - Designated
function of Forest and Other wooded land
3.1 FRA 2005 Categories and definitions
3.2 National data
4 Table T4 – Characteristics
of Forest and Other wooded land
4.1 FRA 2005 Categories and definitions
4.2 National data
5 Table T5 – Growing
stock
5.1 FRA 2005 Categories and definitions
5.2 National data
6 Table T6 - Biomass
stock
6.1 FRA 2005 Categories and definitions
6.2 National data
7 Table T7 - Carbon
stock
7.1 FRA 2005 Categories and definitions
7.2 National data
8 Table T8 - Disturbances
affecting health and vitality
8.1 FRA 2005 Categories and definitions
8.2 National data
9 Table T9 - Diversity of tree
species
9.1 FRA 2005 Categories and definitions
9.2 National data
10 Table T10 - Growing stock
composition
10.1 FRA 2005 Categories and definitions
10.2 National data
11 Table T11 - Wood
removal
11.1 FRA 2005 Categories and definitions
11.2 National data
12 Table T12 - Value of wood
removal
12.1 FRA 2005 Categories and definitions
12.2 National data
13 Table T13 - Non-wood forest
product removal
13.1 FRA 2005 Categories and definitions
13.2 National data
14 Table T14 - Value of
non-wood forest product removal
14.1 FRA 2005 Categories and definitions
14.2 National data
15 Table T15 - Employment in
forestry
15.1 FRA 2005 Categories and definitions
15.2 National data
16 Thematic reporting
tables
Report by Thematic Areas
