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FORESTRY AND FOREST PRODUCTS

OFFICERS

Chairman
L.Z. Rousseau (Canada)

Vice-Chairmen
N. Attuve (Venezuela)
A. Berrada (Morocco)

Rapporteur
A. Polycarpou (Cyprus)

PART I. GENERAL

1. The Committee commended the Forestry and Forest Products Division for the value of the operations and projects conducted in 1962-63 in conformity with the program approved by the Eleventh Session of the Conference.

2. Two years before serious concern had been expressed at the disruption of Regular Program activities by the growing field programs. The Committee was glad to note the addition of seven professional posts under Special Fund headquarters allocations over the past two years. According to two surveys conducted by the Director-General, however, the field programs were still having an adverse impact on the Regular Program. While welcoming the growing number and scope of Special Fund projects and the increase in technical assistance generally as a valuable aid in social and economic development, the Committee could see no sound reason why these desirable field programs, which were approved and financed by member countries, should, as they had done in the past, adversely affect the Regular Program which was also approved and financed by Member Governments through the biennial Conference of FAO. The Committee therefore recommended that the Director-General should do everything possible to avoid repetition of this interference with the Regular Program in the forthcoming biennium by (a) continuing to make strong representations for the provision of adequate funds to cover the proper overhead costs incurred by FAO when acting as agents for the Special Fund and in respect of technical assistance, (b) making greater use of contracts and outside agencies to carry out phases of field programs, especially of Special Fund projects; and (c) dividing his budget presentation into two parts, one to cover the Regular Program of Work, the other to cover administrative and servicing costs resulting from the preparation and implementation of field projects.

3. Several delegates recommended better co-ordination between FAO and organizations rendering technical assistance on a bilateral basis to avoid duplication and improve efficiency. They urged that the governments concerned and the Director-General instruct their field personnel to maintain the maximum technical co-ordination between staffs of projects operated under multilateral, bilateral and other aid programs.

4. Being informed of the factors that had shaped the formulation of the Division's proposed regular program of work for 1964-65, the Committee approved this program and its object, which was the expansion of forestry and forest industries in those developing countries, where, from FAO's studies on trends in the forest and forest products economy, special opportunities become evident. It noted that the Program Committee had already accorded high priority to this work and decided to bring the point to the attention of Commission II.

5. Delegates commended the paper The Role of Forest Industries in the Attack on Economic Under development, which provides orientation for the Organization's future work in forestry and forest products. The Committee considered that the expansion of effort - that is greater expenditure - proposed consequentially under the Regular Program for 1964-65 (as set out in document C 63/3) was modest for a Division of such wide responsibilities. The Committee approved the organizational changes (new Sections) proposed within the Divisional structure, and the new posts and adjustments set out in document C 63/3 Sup. 5. Many delegates expressed reservations as to the grading of one proposed new post and of another already existing post and the Committee decided to refer these questions to Commission II.

6. A consensus of opinion emerged that owing to rapidly changing technical, economic and social circumstances fresh attention must be paid to forest policy as one aspect of the rational use and conservation of all renewable natural resources including wildlife and water. A new look at forest management was also called for. This point is elaborated later in this report, but special stress was laid by delegates on the need for the simultaneous planning of forest management and industries, including transportation planning. With the possibilities afforded by the use of quick-growing species and short rotations, forestry development could no longer be regarded as a slow process. Moreover, as many delegates pointed out, governments were more ready to accord priority to forestry in their investment policies if there was promise of revenue and income from the development of forest industries. With this in mind, the Committee welcomed the establishment, following the decision of the Eleventh Session of the Conference, of the Division's new Forest Industries and Utilization Branch.

7. It was also the consensus of the Committee that attention should be given to cost-benefit studies and investigation of the patterns of the cost structure, especially of marginal costs. The importance of cost-benefit analyses in shaping forest management decisions and forest industry expansion plans was emphasized, and FAO could provide a valuable service to member countries by investigating in co-operation with the International Union of Forest Research Organizations suitable methodology and criteria for assessing direct and indirect forest benefits.

8. The importance many Member Governments were attaching to the development of forestry and forest industries as an integral part of their general economic development was evidenced by the growing number of field projects for which the Forestry and Forest Products Division was given responsibility. The present report singles out several subjects urgently requiring greater attention by the Organization to support this responsibility, for instance, forest management industrialization, and development planning. The Committee accordingly expressed concern at the slow rate of expansion over recent budget periods of the Division's Regular Program functions relative to the expansion in other sectors of the Organization.

9. During discussions on the program of divisional publications, unanimous support was given for the continued publication by the Organization of Unasylva, regarded as the outstanding international periodical devoted to forestry: it was widely read all over the world by practicing foresters and forest utilization specialists. The Committee agreed in principle to placing with commercial publishers other publications provided the requirement for simultaneous release in the three working languages was met.

10. The Committee welcomed the Council's choice of Spain as the host country for the Sixth World Forestry Congress, and expressed great appreciation to the Spanish Government for assuming the heavy obligations entailed. Delegates heard with interest from the delegate of Spain the preliminary proposals of the Organizing Committee in regard to study tours and discussion themes. Since forest policy was now approaching a turning point, it would be timely for the main theme of the Congress to be the role of forestry in the charging world economy. A variety of individual topics was suggested for inclusion in the program but the consensus of opinion was that the discussions should be confined to a limited number of subjects one of which should be the human factor in forestry especially the health and safety of forest workers.

PART II. MAJOR CONCLUSIONS

Forest economics

11. Of the work undertaken in 1962-63 in forest economics, the Committee singled out for special mention the national and regional studies of wood resources and requirements which are of value to all bodies, governmental and private, concerned with the planning and development of forestry and forest industries. Delegates cited many examples of the application of the findings of these studies to policy and investment decisions. In connection with the preparing of these studies, satisfaction was expressed at the widening scope of the Division's collaboration with the United Nations regional economic commissions. The Committee endorsed the proposal to give first priority in 1964-65 to completing the current cycle of regional studies, and to combining them into an integrated analysis of the current situation and future prospects for the world forest and forest products economy, for presentation to the Sixth World Forestry Congress.

12. The Committee recommended that studies on the trends in forest products consumption, supply and trade should remain a continuing feature of the long-term program. The studies gave justification for and direction to not only the work of the Division, but also the policies and plans of member countries. Accordingly, a reassessment of the current regional studies should be started in 1966-67. The studies had so far provided new information on the demand side of the situation and focused attention on the need for further work on the economics of supply.

13. Members of the Committee attached great significance to the improvement of forestry and forest products statistics at the national level, and expressed disappointment that so few member countries were taking advantage of the opportunities for obtaining help in these problems under FAO's field programs. The Committee drew the attention of governments to the fact that efforts to plan resource development could be misdirected, unless the plans rested on a reasonably reliable statistical foundation. Several delegates pointed out the desirability for better statistical information on the extent and location of man-made forests.

14. The Committee noted with satisfaction the assistance rendered to member countries, through the Expanded Program of Technical Assistance and the Special Fund, in the inventorying of forest resources for development programs. Modern techniques of aerial forest inventory had made it possible to acquire more quickly and cheaply the resource data necessary for development. The help given in training staff in the application of modern techniques for applying aerial photography and up-to-date sampling methods to forest inventory, an example of which was the training center in the U.S.S.R. in 1963, was appreciated. This aspect of the work could be expected to grow, and the Committee urged the Director-General to give high priority to training seminars in forest inventory in FAO's field programs.

15. The Committee considered that there was a growing need within member countries for integrating resource surveys, cost-benefit appraisals, feasibility studies, requirements estimates and market outlook surveys into comprehensive development plans for forestry and forest industries. As a consequence, there was likely to be an increased number of requests to FAO for the training of personnel capable of undertaking those tasks, for the provision of suitable manuals and guides, as well as for additional assistance within field programs. The Committee therefore welcomed the proposal to give effect to the recommendation of the Eleventh Session of the Conference and establish within the Forest Economics Branch a new Section on Forestry Development Planning. This would strengthen the Organization's capacity to promote the optimum contribution of forest resources in the over-all development and growth of national and regional economics.

16. The Committee requested the Director-General to bear in mind the importance of this and other trends earlier mentioned - the need for a continuous revision of the regional studies of wood resources and requirements, for cost-benefit analyses, and for integrated development planning - in formulating his program and budget proposals for 1966-67.

Forest production

17. The creation of man-made forests with selected fast-yielding species often constitutes, especially in timber-deficit countries, the most rapid and efficient way of providing the raw material needed by expanding economies. For this reason the Committee fully supported the work on plantation forestry and on quick-growing species, and welcomed the establishment of a new Afforestation Section.

18. Many delegates stressed that the emphasis on manmade forests in the Division's program was a matter of priorities determined by limitations of staff and funds. It must on no account be interpreted as a widespread advocacy of artificial forests as a panacea for the forestry development of the future. The Division was well aware that the bulk of forest production still came from natural forests, and that vast areas of these forests continued to present complex management problems. Many of these forests were economically inaccessible and others, because of their heterogeneous composition, pose stubborn problems for development, but the Committee considered that governments should still encourage the study of techniques and the application of measures to raise the production of natural forests to the maximum extent possible.

19. Many delegates emphasized the relevance of quick-growing species and man-made forests to FAO's Freedom from Hunger Campaign. The Committee firmly believed that forestry had an important and often vital part to play in this Campaign, and delegates were asked to stress this to their governments.

20. The Committee welcomed the probability of a formal invitation from Australia to host a symposium on man-made forests in 1966 or 1967; a proper scheduling of dates with the Sixth World Forestry Congress, the next British Commonwealth Forestry Conference and the next International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) Congress should be kept in mind.

21. The FAO/IUFRO World Consultation on Forest Genetics and Tree Improvement held in Sweden in 1963 had, the Committee considered, been a worthwhile undertaking. The proceedings should be published. In connection with the use of the most suitable provenances, strains and clones in manmade forests, several delegates drew attention to the necessity of designed provenance trials, proper siting, soil preparation and nursery and tending techniques. The high investment required in modern plantation forestry, sometimes involving the use of agricultural or other highly productive soils, demanded that no phase of planning and establishment be neglected.

22. Delegates also stressed the importance of establishing more easily accessible sources of certified seed and seed banks. The Committee heard with appreciation of the work being undertaken in this direction in countries like Australia and Mexico. It considered further that the efforts being made with regard to genetically suitable planting stock and to evaluation of climatic data must be complemented by soil and fertilization studies, and that in the future this might necessitate the appointment of a specialist in forest soils at divisional headquarters.

23. The importance of the Division's work relating to savanna forestry was stressed by many speakers who noted with satisfaction the training center on afforestation techniques being held in the Sudan in late 1963. The Committee urged the organization of other similar centers and the convening of the Working Party on Savanna Forestry of the African Forestry Commission in the coming biennium. The prospect of a savanna forestry research institute in Nigeria being approved as a Special Fund project was welcomed.

24. After hearing that Spain, because of its obligations for the next World Forestry Congress, would forego acting as host to the first session of the Joint Working Party on Techniques of Forest Extension and Restoration, if an alternative venue were possible, the Committee expressed the wish that the meeting might take place in France. Silvicultural study tours, for which a continuing program was in operation in Europe and for which the delegates were pleased to hear a new invitation extended by Switzerland, should be arranged also in other regions. Several delegates voiced regret that a study tour on the silviculture and management of lowland tropical rainforests for the Asia-Pacific region, as recommended by the Asia-Pacific Forestry Commission, had not yet qualified for regional EPTA funds. The Committee noted that the Teak Subcommission, now a joint body of the Asia-Pacific and the African Forestry Commissions, would hold a session in the ensuing biennium.

25. Members of the Committee emphasized that research is one of the fundamentals for development. There was clear need for forest research programs to be adapted to national development policies. The Committee expressed its appreciation of the increasing co-operation developed between FAO and the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO). This co-operation should be further extended. Coordination of forest research on a regional basis was desirable, and the activities of the Research Committee of the Mediterranean Forestry Subcommission, through which research was pursued by FAO in collaboration with IUFRO, were cited as an excellent example of international co-operation. The opinion was expressed that the work of the Latin-American Advisory Group on Education and Research (GACIFAL) might perhaps best be extended as an adjunct to the activities of the Latin-American Forest Research and Training Institute (IFLA) at Mérida, Venezuela.

26. The Committee heard with satisfaction that the FAO/IUFRO Symposium on Internationally Dangerous Forest Insects and Diseases, approved by the Eleventh Session of the Conference would be held in July 1964. The Committee was also glad to be informed that preparations were well in hand for a forest fire control study tour and seminar to be held in the U.S.A and Canada in 1964.

27. The Committee welcomed the information that through the appointment of a forestry adviser by the International Labour Organisation (ILO), collaboration between FAO and that agency would be strengthened. It was hoped that this would enable periodic studies to be undertaken on the effect on forestry of the exodus of rural populations, and more at tension could be given to workers' living and working conditions, vocational training and accident prevention. Such subjects were considered by the Committee to fall into the field of ILO, while the technical and economic problems should continue to be covered by FAO. The Committee expressed satisfaction with the activities of the FAO/ECE Committee on Forest Working Techniques and Training of Forest Workers in which ILO collaborated. Delegates also commended the FAO/ILO training centers for supervisors of forest workers held in Africa and the Far East in 1962 and 1963 and noted that further such centers were planned. The Committee recognized that transportation constitutes an important technical and economic aspect of forestry and forest industry development, and was of the opinion that projects such as the Symposium on Forest Road Networks held in Europe in 1963 should be repeated in other regions, as well as other training projects aiming at the extension of improved techniques and increased efficiency in all phases of forest operations.

Forest industries and utilization

28. The Committee was of the opinion that primary responsibility for furthering the sound development of industries based on renewable natural resources rested with FAO, and therefore welcomed the understanding reached by the Director-General with the United Nations Commissioner for Industrial Development in regard to FAO's responsibility for forest industries and the arrangements made for collaboration with the United Nations Industrial Development Centre.

29. Fundamental changes were now taking place in the world forest and timber economy which would give rise to increasing deficits of forest products in some of the advanced countries. These trends would provide important opportunities for many developing countries to expand their forest industries and diversify their exports, so stimulating their economic development and helping to solve their pressing trade problems.

30. The trend in the forest products economy was toward a reversal of the current relative volumes of forest production going to fuelwood, which was falling, and wood for industrial use, which was rising. At the same time, the relative portion of industrial roundwood which is used for the manufacture of sawnwood was declining while that used for pulp production and the manufacture of wood based panels was increasing.

31. In view of this trend, the Committee appreciated the establishment of a new Pulp and Paper Section in the Division and acknowledged the assistance rendered to the Organization by its Advisory Committee on Pulp and Paper. The Committee learned with interest of the completion of a special study about to be published on pulp and paper prospects in Western Europe, financed by industry as the result of the initiative of this Advisory Committee, and considered that the possibilities should now be explored for similar studies covering other regions of the world, as recommended by the World Pulp and Paper Consultation held in 1959. It noted that the Advisory Committee, at its last session, had also reviewed the first results of a study carried out by the Stockholm Institute for International Economic Studies in co-operation with FAO and Unesco on the place of paper in development and foreign aid, and that the investigation would be continued in relation to paper requirements for mass communication; also that a Seminar on Pulp and Paper Research and Technology for North Africa and Near East countries had been conducted in Beirut in 1962 under the joint auspices of FAO and Unesco.

32. The Committee approved the scheduled Latin-American pulp and paper review consultation in 1964 as a follow-up to the 1954 Buenos Aires Consultation, and supported the first conference on pulp and paper development for Africa and the Near East, due to be organized in 1965 in collaboration with the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa. The Committee also supported the expansion under EPTA of the Latin-American Pulp and Paper Advisory Group (FAO/ECLA) to cover all forest industries, and requested the Director-General to establish on funds from the same source further forest industries advisory groups for Africa and the Near East, and for Asia and the Far East. This expansion would clearly be in keeping with the objectives of the 1964-65 program in forestry and forest products.

33. Some delegates urged that the forest industries notes, included as a project within the 1964-65 program, should embrace information and advice relevant to the utilization of primary forest products in construction and secondary manufacturing.

34. The Committee expressed satisfaction with the success of the World Consultation on Plywood and Other Wood-Based Panels which took place in Rome in July 1963, and with the forthcoming publication of the report. The consultation had recommended the establishment by FAO of an advisory group on wood-based panels. Some delegates strongly supported this idea, others expressed equally strong reservations. The Committee appreciated the growing importance of the wood-based panel industries and their potential contribution toward raising living standards in the developing countries, and agreed that the Director-General should be able to call on expert advice in this regard. But after hearing the arguments advanced on both sides, the Committee reached no firm conclusion as to whether a new advisory committee was the most appropriate means for securing this expert advice.

35. Delegates were informed of the outcome of discussions at the Fifth FAO Conference on Wood Technology held at the U.S. Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, Wisconsin in 1963. The Committee concurred with that Conference's proposal that certain sectors of work formerly carried out by FAO and by working parties of the Technical Panel on Wood Technology could now be taken over by the strengthened International Union of Forest Research Organizations. It further approved the suggestion that a joint FAO/IUFRO meeting might be organized in the future on an ad hoc basis on matters where the interests of the two Organizations complement each other, and requested the Division to explore this possibility further with IUFRO. On this basis, the Committee agreed with the Director-General's view, as expressed on page 4 of document CL 40/15, that the FAO Panels on Wood Chemistry and Mechanical Wood Technology could be dissolved. The Committee also was pleased to learn that the International Wood Research Society, established under the auspices of FAO, was now emerging as a society for fundamental science in wood technology and that FAO would not in the future be requested to provide secretariat services.

36. The Committee stressed the importance of FAO's becoming more active in the field of low-cost housing. The need for improvement in housing standards, particularly in developing countries, provides a logical integration with the Division's activities in sawmilling seasoning, wood preservation as well as the production of wood-based panels. The development of wood-based packaging materials, despite the expansion of packaging derived from pulp products, was another field of activity which deserved increased attention. Clearly the Division's program for 1964-65 did not permit expansion in these fields, so the Committee requested the divisional Director, in formulating his program and budget for the ensuing biennium, to give due weight to the contributions that forest products can make toward improving substandard housing conditions, and to the way in which domestically manufactured products can stimulate trade export of agricultural produce, particularly fruit and vegetables. Meantime, the Committee urged closer collaboration with the United Nations secretariat and its housing centers in furthering the use of forest products in the construction of low-cost housing.

37. Other areas of activity which might well be given greater attention in 1966-67 were the improvement of small-scale sawmills, wood preservation and charcoal manufacture.

Forest policy

38. National forest policy is determined from time to time after a review of a wide range of relevant factors, including political considerations. The laying down of policy is of course a function of government - undertaken on the advice of the forest authority, but also of other authorities. The Committee had earlier expressed the view that a new look needs to be taken at forest policy, as also at forest management. Forest management covers the plans and action taken by the Forest Service or competent authority to implement policy. Just as policy is determined in the light of many factors, so management is undertaken after weighing up and balancing many differing and even perhaps contradictory views, forecasts and experiences. For instance, silviculture its possibilities and its latest techniques; forecasts of wood requirements, import and export possibilities; status of wood based industries and future development; indirect benefits of forests - shelter, erosion control, wildlife, recreation; social considerations, provision of work, labor conditions, education and research; land use planning and co-operation with other government organizations and with farming developments in particular; forest taxation and co-operatives. This list is not comprehensive but enough to show how wide are the considerations that must be brought to bear. A suggestion was made that the responsibility for undertaking a new appraisal of forest management for the benefit of member countries might appropriately lie with the new Regional Forest Policies Section whose establishment the Committee welcomed.

39. The Committee welcomed the development in the Expanded Program of Technical Assistance (EPTA) program which provided that a proportion of executive administrators could be made available to countries within their national technical assistance programs rather than, as hitherto, that they should rely for this facility on the relatively limited OPEX program of the United Nations.

40. The Committee was pleased to note that the Division was continuing to participate in activities undertaken as a follow-up of the FAO Mediterranean Development Report and of the FAO Africa Survey. The Division already had operational responsibility for two Special Fund projects resulting from the Mediterranean Report and was participating in another five, it would be assisting in a second meeting on Mediterranean regional development planned to take place in 1964. The Committee noted that, although Mediterranean development activities stemmed from an initiative of the Forestry and Forest Products Division, the main responsibility now lay with the Economic Analysis Division.

41. The Committee expressed appreciation for the accentuation of Regular Program and technical assistance activities designed to help developing countries in improving educational and training facilities in forestry, particularly in Africa and Latin America. Appreciating that the FAO Technical Panel on Education in Forestry had, since its inception, proven valuable to member countries in assisting the programing establishment and strengthening of facilities for new forestry faculties and schools, and in view of the expected development of further projects under the Special Fund and EPTA, the Committee agreed with a proposal to convert the Panel into an Advisory Committee on Forestry Education. A draft resolution to this effect was adopted for reference to Commission II for consideration. The Committee approved holding a meeting of the Panel (or Advisory Committee as it should become) on Forestry Education in Latin America in February 1964, and welcomed an invitation extended by the delegate of Venezuela for the meeting to be held in his country. It agreed that a further meeting in 1965 in the Far East was advisable, since there would be no opportunity to hold another meeting in that year in connection with the Sixth World Forestry Congress which would not take place until 1966.

42. Several delegates mentioned that more attention should be paid to the strengthening of forestry education at the intermediate level, as had been done in the case of the Near East Forest Rangers School in Syria. But governments must take adequate measures for the full employment of trained man power in forestry at both the professional and subprofessional levels.

43. The Committee considered that co-ordination and cooperation must be strengthened between the Forestry and Forest Products Division and the Land and Water Development Division on matters connected with land use, and with Unesco and the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) on matters connected with conservation and utilization of natural resources generally. The idea of organizing a world conference on watershed management in 1966-67 was welcomed. The Committee hoped it would also prove possible to organize on regional (EPTA) funds a training center on watershed management in Latin America in 1965. It noted with interest the Far East Seminar on Land Use Planning to be organized in 1964 with other Divisions of the Organization.

44. With regard to wildlife surveys, conservation and management, the Committee supported the proposed program to be carried out in collaboration with the Animal Production and Health Division. This program provided for an extension under (EPTA) of the work already carried out in Africa to Latin America and the Far East. In Southeast Asia the work should be co-ordinated with investigations to be carried out by IUCN and agencies of the United States of America under the World Wildlife Fund.

45. The Committee noted with appreciation the comparative studies on forest legislation conducted by the Division in cooperation with the Legislation Research Branch, notably the proposed analyses of legislation related to the conservation and use of renewable natural resources.

46. The Committee commended the reports of sessions of the regional forestry commissions held in 1962-63 to the attention of Member Governments. It concurred with the decision of the Latin-American Forestry Commission to establish three subsidiary committees, on the understanding that they would meet concurrently with the Commission itself and involve no additional expenditure to the Organization. Delegates welcomed the New Zealand Government's agreement to inviting representatives from interested countries outside the region to the 1964 session of the Asia-Pacific Forestry Commission in that country. The Committee regretted that a session of the African Forestry Commission had not been held in 1962-63 and urged that means be found to convene a session in the 1964 65 period. It considered that the establishment of a second post of regional forestry officer for the eastern part of Africa filled a long-standing gap in the divisional structure.

PART III. MATTERS REFERRED FOR CONSIDERATION TO COMMISSION II

Formal proposals

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(i) Creation of new bodies

Draft Resolution No. 63 - Advisory Committee on Forestry Education

THE CONFERENCE

Recognizing that at its Eleventh Session first priority was accorded, among the 1962-63 activities of the Forestry and Forest Products Division, to education in forestry, and that the Director-General was advised to give it similar priority in his 1964-65 Program of Work, which has been confirmed by the present session of the Conference,

Appreciating that FAO's Panel on Education in Forestry has, since its inception (Resolution No. 25, Sixth Session of FAO Conference, 1951), developed useful consultations among leading forestry educationalists and scientists and has proven valuable to member countries in assisting the programing, establishment and strengthening facilities for new forestry faculties and schools, which need to be guided by the experience and standards of long-established institutions for training personnel at the professional and technical levels, and

Noting the widespread development of forestry faculty and school projects under the United Nations Special Fund and the Expanded Program of Technical Assistance in developing countries of the Near East, Africa and Latin America, and expected to develop in the Far East also,

Considers that it would be advisable to enhance the status of the present Panel on Education in Forestry and convert it into an Advisory Committee on Forestry Education, with an expanded membership, which could assist the Director-General more closely in developing FAO's work in this field.

Authorizes the Director-General therefore to proceed accordingly and to establish, in consultation with Member Governments, an Advisory Committee on Forestry Education, whose members, representatives of the different regions of the world, should be selected on the basis of their personal competence and experience, on the understanding that the cost of attendance at meetings of the Advisory Committee shall not be at the expense of FAO

Recommendations affecting draft program of work and budget 1964-
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The Committee welcomed the Director-General's proposal to give effect to the recommendation of the Eleventh Session of the Conference by establishing within the Forest Economics Branch a new section on forestry development planning. This would enable the Division to strengthen its work in the field on integrated planning directed toward ensuring the optimum contribution of forest resources in over-all economic development and the continuing growth of national and regional economies. However, the Committee expressed concern over the grading proposed for the officer to be in charge of this section, since it doubted whether it would be possible to obtain at this level the services of a specialist of sufficiently high caliber to provide effective leadership in this work. It recommended that the new post should be established at the P-4 grade. The additional cost for the biennium 1964-65 was estimated at $4,000.

Pulp and Paper Section, Forest Industries and Utilization Branch

(C 63/3, Chapter VI.A (iv), p. 82, paragraph 46 and errata sheet)

49. Recognizing the importance and significance of pulp and paper activities, of equal interest to both the developed and the developing countries, the Committee noted with concern that in the new Pulp and Paper Section of the Industries and Utilization Branch only two forestry officers on existing posts are apparently planned and no Section Chief. It recommended that provision should be made for a post of Chief of Section at the P-4 level by upgrading one of the existing posts. The additional cost for the biennium 1964-65 was estimated at $4,000.

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