The Forestry Library of the FAO Forestry Department, located at FAO headquarters in Rome and now part of the David Lubin Memorial Library, is a specialized library that holds approximately 6,000 books and over 600 current periodical titles, yearbooks and other serial titles on forestry and related areas. It also has a large collection of grey literature - including documentation on FAO forestry projects and papers and reports from various FAO Forestry meetings - much of which is not readily available anywhere else.
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Subjects covered include:
- sustainable forest management
- fire management
- arid zone forestry
- forest health
- planted forests
- genetic resources
- wood energy
- harvesting
- industries
- trade and forests
- non-wood forest products
- biodiversity
- climate change
- desertification
- environment
- utilization alien invasive species
- forests and water
- participatory processes
- forests and poverty reduction
- gender
- small-scale enterprises
- conflict management
- forest law compliance and governance
- national forests programmes
- global forest resource assessment
- and other related subjects
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