''Unasylva'' is a multilingual international journal of

forestry Forestry is the science and craft of creating, managing, planting, using, conserving and repairing forests and woodlands for associated resources for human and Natural environment, environmental benefits. Forestry is practiced in plantations and ...

and

forest industries The wood industry or timber industry (sometimes lumber industry – when referring mainly to sawed boards) is the industry concerned with forestry, logging, timber trade, and the production of primary forest products and wood products (e.g. fu ...

published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Produced in separate English, French, and Spanish editions, ''Unasylva'' covers all aspects of forestry: policy and planning; conservation and

management Management (or managing) is the administration of organizations, whether businesses, nonprofit organizations, or a Government agency, government bodies through business administration, Nonprofit studies, nonprofit management, or the political s ...

of forest-based plants and animals; rural socio-economic development, including food security; species improvement; industrial development;

international trade International trade is the exchange of capital, goods, and services across international borders or territories because there is a need or want of goods or services. (See: World economy.) In most countries, such trade represents a significan ...

; and environmental considerations, including the role of forests and trees in maintaining a sustainable base for agricultural production as well as the effects of environmental change on forestry. ''Unasylva'' presents news about forest science and policy to a broad range of readers – policymakers, forest managers, technicians, researchers, students, teachers.

Indexing

''Unasylva'' is indexed by the ''Abstract Bulletin of the Institute of Paper Chemistry'', the ''Bibliography of Agriculture'', and ''Predicasts''."Unasylva," Johns Hopkins University Library.
Accessed: September 26, 2013. Its ''h''-index is 15."Unasylva," SCImago Journal & Country Rank.
Accessed: September 26, 2013. The journal is also referenced in

Scopus Scopus is a scientific abstract and citation database, launched by the academic publisher Elsevier as a competitor to older Web of Science in 2004. The ensuing competition between the two databases has been characterized as "intense" and is c ...

, an abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. In a 2007 poll, professional forestry organizations in Australia ranked ''Unasylva'' in the 'A' group (80-95 percentile) of all forestry journals.

History

First published in 1947, ''Unasylva'' is

FAO The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations; . (FAO) is a List of specialized agencies of the United Nations, specialized agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger and improve nutrition ...

’s longest running periodical. The journal documents the history of FAO’s activities in forestry. Every FAO Director-General and every head of the FAO Forestry Division, which later became the Forestry Department, has contributed to ''Unasylva''. Authors of the more than 1,000 articles published include presidents of countries, heads of national forest services, field workers and university professors. The results of hundreds of FAO field projects have been recorded in these pages. As FAO membership has grown, from 48 countries – mostly in the industrialized world – to 191 (in 2012), so has the emphasis within ''Unasylva'' changed, from wood production and wood technology to sustainability concepts and awareness of forestry’s social role. The first few decades emphasized assistance to Europe in the recovery after the Second World War. Authors in the early years were predominantly European and North American men. By the 1980s, the balance was changing as women increasingly entered the field of forestry, and contributions from developing countries were increasingly welcomed. Today’s ''Unasylva'' is diverse and global; each issue, to the extent possible, has authors, male and female, from every region of the world and from a variety of academic and research institutions, other UN agencies, non-governmental organizations and civil society. In 2000, FAO published ''The complete collection of Unasylva 1947–2000'', with 51 volumes (203 issues) in a compact disc form.

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* {{Forestry, state=collapsed Forestry journals Forestry agencies Sustainable forest management Forest history Food and Agriculture Organization Magazines established in 1947 Multilingual journals United Nations mass media World forestry Academic journals published by non-profit organizations

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