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Indicator: Number of countries with national forest programmes S13
Number of countries with national forest programmes: 1998  
Indicator Chart
Change since
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Coverage: Global

Source: FAO

Objective: Sustainable forestry management overseas
  • "National forest programme" is a general term for a wide range of national approaches to the achievement of sustainable forest management.
  • Of the 190 countries surveyed, 77 per cent (146) had a national forest programme adopted by the intergovernmental panel on forests, of which 25 per cent (37) had stalled.
Note: Not updated since QoLC (1999)


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