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COFO 2005 - Dialogue into action

Year of publication 2005

Pages 56

Author Forestry Economics and Policy Division

Product type Document

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) High-level forest policy-makers from around the world, gathered in Rome in March 2005, confirmed their commitment to sustainable forest management, pursuit of international cooperation on forest fires, enhancing the role of the forest sector in achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and post-tsunami rehabilitation in the forest sector. Attendance at the Ministerial Meeting on Forests, held 14 March, and the seventeenth session of the FAO Committee on Forestry (COFO), held 15 to 1 9 March, was record breaking: 700 in all, including 90 heads of national forestry agencies. This issue of Unasylva presents some of the highlights: speeches presented by FAO leaders and special guests, articles recapturing some of the main themes, and summaries of selected side events.

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