Forest resources of Africa, pt. 2: Regional analyses
| dc.creator | Persson, Reidar;Office of Assistant Director-General (Forestry Department) | |
| dc.date | 2023-04-27T11:47:49Z | |
| dc.date | 2023-04-27T11:47:49Z | |
| dc.date | 1977 | |
| dc.date | 2019-05-30T15:47:57.0000000Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-06-27T21:26:08Z | |
| dc.description | This report describes the present forestry situation of Africa and the future. Country-by-country summary-tables of the most important figures about different aspects of forestry are given in an Appendix. The total closed forest area is 190 million ha or a few million more if a wider definition is accepted. The area of open woodlands of different types is about 600 million ha. The area covered by man-made forests is at least 3 million ha and may be as much as 3.5 million ha in 1976. Of this ar ea, one-third consists of pines and one-third of eucalypts. The planned yearly planting rate is around 200,000 ha. The total gross volume of wood is roughly calculated as about 60,000 million m3 of which about two-thirds is found in closed forest types. If the present exploitation of the wood resources continues large regions of Africa will suffer in the future from a deficit of fuelwood. In many countries the known timber species will also be exhausted. For a successful future the establi shing of man-made forests is essential | |
| dc.format | application/pdf | |
| dc.identifier | https://openknowledge.fao.org/handle/20.500.14283/AP477E | |
| dc.identifier | http://www.fao.org/3/a-ap477e.pdf | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/223030 | |
| dc.language | English | |
| dc.publisher | Royal college of forestry, Stockholm ; | |
| dc.rights | FAO | |
| dc.title | Forest resources of Africa, pt. 2: Regional analyses | |
| dc.title | Forest resources of Africa, pt. 2: Regional analyses | |
| dc.title | An approach to international forest resource appraisals | |
| dc.type | Book (stand-alone) |