UN FAO, Forest Resources Assement, 1953. The basis of much of the world’s forest data.

Submitted by: The Two Sides Team May 7, 2012

The Conference of FAO, at its Sixth Session, in 1951, directed that available information on the forest resources of all countries of the world should, at five-year intervals, be collected and published. A first inventory had been carried out in 1947/48. Accordingly, a second enquiry was undertaken in, 1953. The results are published in this volume; the first of what has become a regular 5 year update of forest resources.

Compared with the first enquiry, this inventory records considerable progress in the scope and reliability of the figures reported; indeed, for some countries the progress has been remarkable. Nevertheless; the material has its limitations, described in the text.

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