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Latin American And Caribbean Forestry Commission Thirty-First Session - Implementation of the UN Strategic Plan for Forests and collaboration with the UN Forum on Forests

Montevideo, Uruguay, 2 - 6 September 2019

Year of publication 2019

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 4p.

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Meeting

Category Meeting document

Edition 1

Statutory body / Meeting title Latin American and Caribbean Forestry Commission (LACFC)

Meeting symbol LACFC/2019/6

Meeting Session Number Sess. 31

Meeting date 2 - 6 September 2019

Meeting location Montevideo, Uruguay

Language English

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