Year of publication 2007

---

Author D. A. Neilson;Office of Assistant Director-General (Forestry Department)

---

Product type Document

---

Series title Planted Forests and Trees Working Paper

---

Edition 1

---

Synopsis (short abstract) According to FAO, 2006, there are 271 million hectares of planted forests that account for 7 percent of global forest area or 2 percent of global land area. The role of planted forests in providing wood and non-wood raw materials and social and environmental services is increasing. In fact planted forests, in 2005 already provided more than half the global industrial roundwood and their area, productivity and importance for provision of goods and services are continuing to increase. The primary purpose for growing planted forests was reported as 205 million hectares for production (wood and non wood forest products) and 66 million hectares for protection of soils and water (combating desertification, rehabilitation of degraded lands etc).

---

Language English

---

Also available in:

No results found.

---