Unasylva

Unasylva 253: Forests for a better world 15 December 2022 Conserving biodiversity and combating climate change, land degradation and desertification - while striving to end hunger in world with a growing population – are challenges that require a clear response and a clear pathway for improvement. This issue of Unaslyva focuses on FAO’s response to these issues: a strategic framework that strives for better production, better nutrition, a better environment and a better life for all – leaving no one behind - and the ways in which forests contribute to the achievement of these goals. [more]

About Unasylva

First published in 1947, Unasylva is FAO's journal of forestry and forest industries. Its goal is to bring globally significant developments in forestry to a broad range of readers - such as policy-makers, forest managers, technicians, researchers, students and teachers.

Produced in separate English, French, and Spanish editions, Unasylva covers all aspects of forestry: policy and planning; conservation and management of forest-based plants and animals; rural socioeconomic development; species improvement; industrial development; international trade; and environmental considerations, including the role of forests and trees in maintaining a sustainable base for agricultural production as well as the effects of environmental change on forestry. 

Unasylva is FAO’s longest running periodical. The journal documents the history of FAO’s activities in forestry. Every FAO Director-General and every head of the FAO Forestry Division has contributed to Unasylva. Authors include presidents of countries, heads of national forest services, field workers and university professors. The results of hundreds of FAO field projects have been recorded in these pages.

As FAO membership has grown, from 48 countries to 191 (in 2012), so has the emphasis within Unasylva changed, from wood production and wood technology to sustainability concepts and awareness of forestry’s social role. The first few decades emphasized assistance to Europe in the recovery after the Second World War. Authors in the early years were predominantly European and North American men. By the 1980s, the balance was changing as women increasingly entered the field of forestry, and contributions from developing countries were increasingly welcomed.

Today’s Unasylva is diverse and global; each issue, to the extent possible, has authors, male and female, from every region of the world and from a variety of academic and research institutions, other UN agencies, non-governmental organizations and civil society. In 2000, FAO published the complete collection of Unasylva 1947–2000, with 51 volumes (203 issues) in a compact disc form. Unasylva is indexed by the Abstract Bulletin of the Institute of Paper Chemistry, the Bibliography of Agriculture, and Predicasts.

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