Unasylva - No. 135 - Forestry in arid zones













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An international journal of forestry and forest industries - Vol. 34 - 1982

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Mohamed Ahmed Mohamed
Portrait of a dry region

B. Ben Salem and Talat M. Eren
Forestry in a sandy world

Kiyomitsu Imamura
Human resources in Japanese forestry

Börje Kyrklund
Newsprint for developing countries

The FAO Forestry Department's Programme of Work and Budget for 1982-83

Programme 2.3.1: Forest resources and environment
Programme 2.3.2: Forest industries and trade
Programme 2.3.3: Forest investment and institutions
Programme 2.3.4: Forestry for rural development
Programme 2.3.9: Programme management

The world of forestry

Honey trees in the tropics
Indonesian wood processing expands
How to improve grazing on arid lands is object of 10-year US study
Forestry report on developing countries
Kenya: The population explodes and fuelwood disappears
Wood energy in Sweden
Kenya's Panafrican paper mills expand
Bangladesh seeks regional pulp and paper role
Plan to expand Picop in the Philippines

Books

Landsat for the layman
Tropical rangelands
Classifying forest cover types
Building with bamboo
Mini-nature reserves for city dwellers
A bibliography of wood-use periodicals

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