Field handbook - Poplar harvesting

30/10/2008

Poplars (Populus spp.) play a key role in fast wood plantations of temperate climates. This Field Handbook “Poplar Harvesting” aims to expose the most common working techniques and the future trends in poplar plantations, resulting in practical guidelines for developing efficient, cost wise and secure harvesting systems.

Poplars and willows - Unasylva No. 221, Vol. 56 2005/2

28/02/2005

Why poplars and willows? Because they are so versatile. These members of the family Salicaceae provide wood, fibre, biofuel and other forest products and have a positive role in rehabilitation of degraded lands, forest landscape restoration, climate change mitigation and livelihood generation in temperate and boreal regions of the world.

Review of fungal diseases in Poplar

30/12/1999

Intensive poplar growing began to cover its most qualifying stages in the northern temperate zone since the beginning of the twentieth century. Nevertheless, unceasing progress in terms of both quantity and quality was accompanied by an exponential increase in the toll exacted by diseases.

History of the International Poplar Commission (IPC)

30/01/1998

Paper presented on 17 October 1997 to a satellite meeting of the XI World Forestry Congress on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the International Poplar Commission. The International Poplar Commission (IPC) marks the 50th anniversary of its activities in 1997. This is once more an opportunity to draw up an account of its work, after the last revision made five years ago.

Lesser-known tropical wood species - Unasylva - No. 145, Vol. 36 1984/3

31/03/1984

Tropical timber producers are stressing that better utilization and marketing of lesser-known species would generate increased economic returns to the forests and thus make possible better forest management. Importers and consumers are arguing that present timber markets can be maintained or perhaps even expanded by including lesser-known species for both new and traditional end-uses within the flow of tropical timbers.

Man-made forests - Unasylva No. 86-87, Vol. 21 1967

29/12/1967

A Word Symposium on Man-Made Forests and their Industrial Importance was sponsored by FAO in 1967 in response to a recommendation of the Technical Committee on Forestry and Forest Products of the Thirteenth Session of the FAO Conference, held at Rome, November 1965. This recommendation reflected a wide recognition that forestry, no less than agriculture, must pursue the technological revolution where by great- production is obtained from smaller areas throught greater inputs.