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Trade Yearbook, United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, Rome, Italy (various yearly issues). 

One of the most debated environmental issues of the past fifteen to twenty years has been the exploitation of the forests for wood for paper making. Approximately 30% of the earth s land surface is forested, and around half of this is harvested commercially for industrial purposes (Chapter 1). Over 80% of this wood for industrial use comes from the forests of North America, Europe and what was formerly the Soviet Union. Wood has been the primary fibre source for pulp and paper production world-wide for many years, and it is necessary to take a global view of its consumption. Wood consumption world-wide has more than doubled since 1950 from 1.5 billion to 3.5 billion m3 (United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation). Approximately half of this is used for fuelwood and half for industrial use. The principal driving force for this increase in consumption has been the increase in world population which shows a close correlation with wood consumption (Figure 10.1). 

World coffee production varies from year to year. In the 53 coffee-growing countries mentioned in the 1952 yearbook of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (16), 2,269,900 metric tons of coffee were produced in 1951. In the Western Hemisphere, North and Central America and the Caribbean Islands produced 366,600 and South America 1,500,600 tons. In the Eastern Hemisphere, Asia produced 82,300, Africa 315,400, and Oceania 5000 tons. 

If you ran the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation, dedicated to increasing productivity in developing countries, on which crops would you expect your staff to be working and in which countries ... 

United Nations — Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) (1998). Guidehnes for quality management in soil and plant laboratories. [Online] available http //www.fao.org/docrep/W7295E/ w7295e00.htm [04 March 2005],... 

United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (2005) FAOSTAT, http /Zfaostat.fao.org... 

FAO /WHO (2001) Human Vitamin and Mineral Requirements Report of a Joint FAO/WHO Expert Consultation, Bankok, Thailand. Rome Food and Nutrition Division of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. 

For decades, stockpiles of obsolete, expired, and banned pesticides have posed significant health risks to people in developing countries. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that... 

United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. (2001). Baseline study on the problem of obsolete pesticide stocks. FAO Pesticide Disposal Series 9. Retrieved March 11, 2007 from http // www.fao.org/docrep/003/X8639E/X8639e00.htm... 

United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (2003) Database on Pesticides Consumption, United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, Statistics Division. Available on the world wide web at http //www.fao.org/waicent/ FAOINFO/economic/pesticid.htm (accessed 4/14/03). 

See also European Union and Its European Commission Food and Agricuiture Organization of the United Nations Food and Drug Administration, US Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, US Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Deveiopment. 

Another potentially important source of food safety expertise resides in the Joint Expert Committees on Food Additives (JECFA), first organized in 1956 by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) and now associated with these organizations Codex Alimentarius Commission. JECFA reports have influenced decisions by the FDA and other regulatory bodies, and its recommendations... 

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