1958
An International Review of Forestry and Forest Products
FAO - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
FAO - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations - grew out of a United Nations Conference held at Hot Springs, Virginia, U.S.A., in May 1943. The nations agreed to work together to secure a lasting peace through freedom from want. The Organization was formally founded at Quebec, Canada, in October 1945. It was located at Washington D.C. until 1951 when the Headquarters office was moved to Rome
Unasylva is prepared by FAO's Forestry Division, directed by Mr. Marcel Leloup, and published every quarter in English, French and Spanish by the Information Division. It attempts to cover a range of interest as wide as that of the Forestry Division whose work it mirrors. Signed articles express the opinions of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the Organization. All material in Unasylva may be freely reprinted, but acknowledgement is requested, together with a copy of the publication containing the reprint.
Cover Photograph: Squares of timber, hewn by local tribes, on the shore of the Ucayali river at Pucallpa, Peru. Export of timber from the Pucallpa area is mostly down the Amazon river and out into the Atlantic. Delivery of timber by road across the Andes to the capital city, Lima, has greatly increased in recent years. The road, 840 kilometers in length, represents a remarkable feat of engineering, and climbs to a height of 4,800 meters. A resource development survey of Peru is to be undertaken in 1958 jointly by FAO and the International Bank.
Courtesy, M.A.F. Dijkmans
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Norberto Sanchez Mejorada, Abraham Escarpita H., and Louis Huguet
A forest inventory in
Mexico
P. V. Vasiliev
F. C. Hummel
Methods of forecasting production from thinnings
F. J. Genty
A diversity of
forest types in Iran
Yovan Tucakov
Medicinal
plants from forest land in Yugoslavia
FAO Staff
Principal
pests and diseases of eucalypts outside Australia
Plywood
Some current activities