Forestry Information Centre

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.

Subjects

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

See also

World Forestry Congress

Unasylva: FAO's international journal of forestry and forest industries

External links

FAO Homepage

FAO Forestry Department Homepage

FAO Library Catalogue Online

Forestry education

Libraries in Rome

Forestry in Italy

Forest governance

Food and Agriculture Organization

International forestry organizations

Research libraries

Rome R. XXI San Saba