FOOD
AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS
Rome, 2003
The State of the World's Forests, 2003Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Summary
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PART I
THE SITUATION AND RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE FOREST SECTOR
Forest resources
Global
Forest Resources Assessment
Agricultural
expansion and deforestation
Mangrove
conversion and conservation
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Management, conservation and sustainable development of forests
Role
of planted trees in developing countries with low forest cover: findings from six case
studies
Mountain
forests and sustainable mountain development
Forests
and wooded lands in the Mediterranean basin
Coordinated
responses to fighting forest fires
Hunting
wild animals for meat: a threat to sustainability
Recent
developments in forests and climate change
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Institutional framework
Forestry
education: coping with new demands
Decentralization
of public administration of forests
Sharing
benefits from forests
The
fight against illegal logging and illegal trade
Improving
cross-sectoral linkages with regard to forests
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International forest policy dialogue
United
Nations Forum on Forests
Collaborative
Partnership on Forests
International
policy debate on forests and forest biological
diversity
Update
on forest-related international conventions and
agreements
National
Forest Programme Facility
World
Summit on Sustainable Development
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PART II
SELECTED CURRENT ISSUES IN THE FOREST SECTOR
Forests and poverty alleviation
Definition
of terms
Opportunities
and obstacles in forest-based poverty alleviation
Enabling
conditions and strategies
Summary
and conclusion
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Sustainable use and management of freshwater resources: the
role of forests
Forests,
atmospheric water and water yield
Forests,
floods and debris flows
Forests
and sedimentation
Forests
and water quality
Watersheds:
recognizing upstream–downstream linkages
Conclusions
and recommendations
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How sustainable use of forests can contribute to conserving
biological diversity
Some
key concepts in biological diversity conservation in relation
to forests
Critical
issues in conserving forest biological diversity
Interface
between biological diversity and sustainable forest
management
Criteria
and indicators for conservation of biological diversity
Conclusions
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Science and technology in the forest sector: widening gaps and
narrowing options
Changing
forest sector priorities
Widening
gaps
Narrowing
options
Concluding
observations
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Recent trends in fiscal policies in the forest sector in Africa
Public
expenditure on forestry
New
fiscal arrangements
Recommendations
for improving fiscal policies
Broader
implications for financing of sustainable forest management
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ANNEX 1
ACRONYMS
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ANNEX 2
DATA TABLES
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