La Oficina Regional de la FAO para América Latina y el Caribe organiza cada dos años la Reunión de la Comisión Forestal para América Latina y el Caribe (COFLAC), donde se invita a participar a todos los países miembros de la FAO en la Región, para analizar la situación y evolución regional de…
This case study is one of a series of publications produced by the Forest Harvesting, Trade and Marketing Branch of FAO in an effort to promote environmentally sound forest harvesting and engineering practices. The purpose of these studies is to highlight both the promise of environmentally…
Meeting symbol/code: COFO 2001 6
This document assembles three reviews of the marine shrimp and groundfish fisheries of the Brazil-Guianas shelf (northern Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago and eastern Venezuela) and one on environmental aspects of the area. The resources reviews are based on technical…
Meeting symbol/code: LACFC 2000 4
This document contains the proceedings of the Subregional Workshop on Land Water Information Systems (LWRIS) in the Caribbean, held in Barbados in October 2000. The meeting was organized by FAO Land and Water Development Division (AGL), in collaboration with the Caribbean Agricultural and…
Improved forest harvesting practices, with due consideration of the forest environment, are considered an important step towards sustainable forest management, particularly in tropical regions. The present case study has been carried out with one of the numerous small concession holders…
Meeting symbol/code: COFO 2001 6
Esta nota tiene como propsito el informar a la Comisin acerca de las actividades de la FAO relacionadas con el sector forestal que son de inters para la regin, financiadas con el presupuesto del Programa Ordinario y los proyectos ejecutados por la FAO financiados por el PNUD y los fondos…
A synthesis of available data on social and economic factors, forest resources and nonwood forest products production and trade in the Asia-Pacific region. This study draws together information from a variety of statistical databases and from country and thematic studies in this working paper…
This report presents the results of an analysis of economic rent from roundwood production in Suriname. It starts by describing the concept of economic rent: what it means; how it is calculated; and why it is so important. it then presents the results of the economic rent analysis and presents…