Bibliography and terminology
World land reform conference
Working techniques and training of forest workers
FAO committee on wood-based panel products
Personnel news
Bibliography and terminology - World Land Reform Conference - Working techniques and the training of forest workers - Personnel news
The Fourteenth Session of the FAO/IUFRO Committee on Bibliography and Terminology was held in March 1966 at the Commonwealth Forestry Institute, Oxford, United Kingdom, under the chairmanship of Professor E. Saari of Finland. Observers from Canada, France, the Federal Republic of Germany and the United States of America joined the meeting.
The latest progress in adopting, expanding and amending the Oxford System of Decimal Classification for Forestry (ODC) was reviewed, as well as the development of the Multilingual Forestry Terminology Project.
So far, English, French, German, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese versions of the ODC have been authorized and published. They are widely used not only as a guide to the classification of forestry literature but also as a source of information concerning equivalent forestry terms in those languages. Other language versions of the ODC are under preparation by national agencies.
The reorganization of work on the Multilingual Forestry Terminology Project is proceeding well. The English basic portion, which will comprise about 7,000 key terms, should be finished by the end of 1970, under the sponsorship of the Society of American Foresters and with the financial support of the governments of the United States and Canada. Compilation of the French, German and Spanish portions is being carried on in the respective countries.
Among other subjects discussed was the paper "Organizing collections by the Oxford System" issued by the United States Forest Service, and the World list of periodicals and serials of interest to forestry which has been issued as a complete work (previous instalments included) by FAO in collaboration with the international forest documentation centers in Reinbek, Oxford and Washington. FAO is to prepare and distribute a list of existing forestry glossaries and dictionaries.
The Committee agreed on the following amendment to the ODC:
AMENDMENT No. 5
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[Including intensive silviculture of plantations for extra rapid growth on short rotations, and information on species suit able for this purpose. (Use for genera matter on this topic, but reference individual operations under the appropriate heads, e.g. Pruning under 245.1.)] |
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711 add: |
market research in general |
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add 933.8 |
Criminal and civil wrongs, and relevant regulations |
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933.9 |
Miscellaneous add 935.6 Concerning leases and licences. [Cf. 644.6 and 75.] |
A World Land Reform Conference, convened jointly by the United Nations and FAO with the co-operation of the International Labour Organisation, met in Rome from 20 June to 2 July 1966 under the chairmanship of Dr. H. Santa Cruz, FAO Assistant Director-General for Latin-American affairs.
Some 300 officials, experts and consultants from 77 countries and territories attended the conference, which was the first meeting of its kind held since the first International Conference on Land Tenure and Related Problems in World Agriculture, convened in the United States of America in 1951.
A special paper for the conference entitled "Forestry and agrarian reform," discussed two major themes of interest to forestry: (a) the structural reform of forest lands as a means of forestry development; and (b) the role of the forest land sector in agrarian policies. Various country papers described the role played by forestry in national land reform programs.
As a result of the conference and following a recommendation of the Latin-American Forestry Commission, FAO is planning to organize in 1968 a regional seminar on the forestry aspects of land reform in Latin America.
The sixth session of the FAO/ECE/ILO Committee on Working Techniques and Training of Forest Workers was held in Stockholm from 22 to 27 September 1966. The previous meeting was held in 1964 in Edinburgh.
The purpose of the meeting was to review the work done by the four study groups of the committee in the last two years and to examine their future work programs.
Sixty representatives from 19 European countries attended, as well as observers from other parts of the world.
The committee elected K.I. Voronitsin (U.S.S.R.) as chairman, re-elected J.M. Venet (France) as vice-chairman and elected two new vice-chairmen, U. Sundberg (Sweden) and K. Zaremba-Czereyski (Poland). R. Wettstein (Switzerland) was appointed rapporteur. E.G. Richards (U.K.) who has been chairman of the committee since its formation nine years ago, was warmly thanked for his services.
The four study groups of the committee deal with:
(a) methods and organization of forest work
(b) mechanization of forest work
(c) multilingual glossary of forest work science
(d) vocational training and prevention of accidents in forest work.
The session was combined with a symposium on the use of tractors in forestry. It was preceded by a study tour from 14 to 21 September, when commercial forest operations were seen where the most advanced machines and methods are in use. The Forest Experiment Station at Nagen, an exhibition of modern forestry equipment, and training schools were also visited.
A first meeting of the new FAO Committee on Wood-based Panel Products was held from 12 to 14 December 1966 at FAO Headquarters in Rome. The committee has the following terms of reference:
(a) to advise the Director-General on the evolution and implementation of Regular Program and field projects related to wood-based panel products for which the Organization is responsible;(b) to indicate special topics or sectors that should be the subject of study by the Organization and suggest priorities;
(c) to furnish guidance on the categories of technical, statistical and economic data: pertaining to wood-based panel industries that should be collected, compiled, analyzed and published internationally;
and consists of specialist representatives appointed by Member Governments that are in turn selected by the
This first session was attended by representatives of 18 Member Countries of FAO: Austria, Belgium, Canada, Brazil, Finland, France, Federal Republic of Germany, India, Japan, Mexico, Nigeria, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States and Yugoslavia.
The committee elected Dr. H.O. Fleischer, director of forest products engineering research, Forest Service, United States Department of Agriculture, as its chairman and Mr. G. Mañalac, president of the Philippines Chamber of Wood Industries, as vice-chairman. Mr. E. Justsuk, director of the Swedish Plywood Manufacturers' Association, was appointed rapporteur.
Matters considered by the committee included the present situation and future trends in consumption, production and trade in wood-based panels; an inquiry into use patterns and development possibilities in the application of these products; FAO's work in forest industries with special reference to wood-based panels; the FAO/Industry Co-operative Program and FAO co-operation with international development banks; obstacles impeding the flow of investment capital to forest industries in the developing countries; and a suggested program for the committee's future work.
Individual delegations presented reports on trends in the development of wood-based panel industry and trade in their respective countries.
A report of the meeting is available on request.
· Two former staff members of the Forestry and Forest Products Division have received promotion in other sectors of the Organization: R.C. FORTUNESCU has been appointed Chief, Office of Liaison and Protocol, and G.G. WATTERSON, Chief, Regional Liaison Branch.· G.R. GREGORY, a former FAO staff member and now Professor of Resource Economics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, U.S.A., is acting as principal co-ordinator of the forestry contribution to the FAO Indicative World Plan for Agricultural Development. Professor Gregory is working in Rome during a period of leave and has taken over from MAURICE N. GALLANT who has retired from the Organization to the United Kingdom, after being a staff member for over 10 years, serving in many parts of the world. I. I. HOLLAND, Associate Professor of Forest Economics, University of Illinois, has been spending a sabbatical leave working on the Plan and, as is mentioned elsewhere in this issue, S.D. RICHARDSON, now Professor of Forestry at the University of Wales, has spent nine months in Rome for the same purpose. The Forestry Division's only fully qualified woman forester at headquarters, Miss L. LARCHER-GRAÇA of Portugal, is engaged as a research officer on the Plan.
· F. BARRIENTOS-FERNANDEZ (Spain) has been appointed Regional Forestry Officer at the FAO Latin-American Office at Santiago, Chile. He takes over from H.R. REICHARDT who has returned to Rome after a three-year spell of duty in the region.
· E.A. QUIST-ARCTON (Ghana) from headquarters has taken up duties in a new post of Regional Forestry Officer (East Africa) at Nairobi, Kenya, while R. GUTZ-WILLER (Switzerland) has been appointed Regional Forestry Officer (West Africa) based in Accra, Ghana.
· J. TURBANG (Belgium) has assumed duties as Regional Forestry Officer (Asia and Pacific) at the Bangkok, Thailand, office of FAO. He replaces U AUNG DIN (Burma) who, on promotion, has taken up an appointment as FAO manager of the UNDP/Special Fund project in Nepal: management and development of the Trisuli watershed
· Taking over from K. OEDEKOVEN (Germany), KHALID HAMAD (Sudan) was last year appointed as Regional Forestry Officer (Near East) stationed in Cairo. Mr. Oedekoven was promoted to FAO manager of the UNDP/Special Fund project in Brazil: national forestry school, Curitiba.
· New staff members who have joined headquarters since the last list was published in Unasylva (Number 77), include:
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I. Kissin (Brazil) |
G. Segerström (Sweden) |
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H. Marchand (France) |
J. Swiderski (Poland) |
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A. Polycarpou (Cyprus) |
H.L. Teller (Australia) |
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R.V. Potter (U.S.A.) |
R.L. Willan (United Kindgom) |
The following have been transferred to Rome from field assignments:
R. Baltaxe (United Kingdom)
J. Brax (Finland)
A. Brichet (Belgium)
J.S. Spears of the Kenya Forest Department has been appointed to the staff of the FAO/International Bank joint program at Rome.
· Recent appointments made to posts of FAO manager of Special Fund projects of the United Nations Development Program include:
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Country |
Type of project |
Project manager |
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ARGENTINA |
Forestry and watershed management training institute, La Plata |
F. Zamarriego (Spain) |
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CEYLON |
Preinvestment study on forest industries development |
K. Lund (Finland) |
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CHINA (TAIWAN) |
Forest and forest industry development |
R. Schultz (Canada) |
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COLOMBIA |
Preinvestment study on forestry development |
N. Sanchez Mejorada (Mexico) |
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COSTA RICA |
Survey of selected forest areas |
A. Haider (Norway) |
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ECUADOR |
Preinvestment studies on forestry development |
E. Reid (Canada) |
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ECUADOR |
Forestry training center |
R. Clopes-Boix (Spain) |
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GABON |
National forestry institute |
A. Philippot (France) |
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GUATEMALA |
Preinvestment studies on forestry development |
W. Mittak (Germany) |
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GUYANA |
Survey of forest industries development |
H. Ellis (U.S.A.) |
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PANAMA |
Forestry surveys |
R. Piirvee (Canada) |
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TANZANIA |
College of wildlife management |
A. Mence (U.K.) |
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THAILAND |
Pulp and paper: raw materials survey |
G. Penney (Canada) |
FAO is now operating 37 UNDP/Special Fund forestry projects of three to five years in duration. An additional 16 projects are approved but not yet in operation. Seven projects have been completed.
