Workshop on the FAO approach to National Forest Resources Assessment and ongoing projects
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Information on forestry resources is incomplete or lacking in many countries. The global Forest Resources Assessment (FRA 2000) found that while number of industrialised countries has reliable information on a wide array of forest attributes, the developing countries data is still very fragmentary and inappropriate for forest policy development. Seventy-nine developing countries have never carried out national forest inventories (nfi’s) and assessments (nfa). Only 20 countries have reported on n fi’s based on field sampling. In 59 countries information was derived from remote sensing data. Information on forest area and to less extent on timber volume is that what exists in most developing countries. Complete data on volume from nation wide field inventories is very rare. The other forest resources are often not properly covered by the nfi’s. Trees outside forest (TOF) resources are also not accounted for in national data sets. Use and users of resources are also not well covered by nfi ’s. Efforts in national forest inventories and assessments, particularly in the developing countries, seem to have decreased in comparison with what was done in the 1970s and early 1980s. The reasons for this are the scarcity of financial resources on one hand and the low national capacities to plan and implement inventories on the other. FAO has the mandate to provide assistance in forest inventory and assessments to the countries that request it. It also works with all countries to produce and provide reliable and complete data to the Global Forest Resources Assessments (GFRA). The gaps of information identified by FRA 2000 made the efforts to help a number of countries an urgent necessity.