"The industrial forest sector also plays an important economic role
globally," said Dr.

On the otherhand, some causes of population decrease for a region might be lack of medicines, poor diets , and reduced agriculture production due to weather, insect swarms, and not rotating crops.

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Widely recognized environmental functions of forests
include mitigating climate change, conserving biological diversity ,
maintaining clean and reliable water resources, sustaining and enhancing land
productivity, protecting coastal and marine resources and enhancing urban
environments. FAO is currently carrying
out a major review of its activities aimed at ensuring maximum support to
achieving the MDGs. de Haen added , "the Least Developed Countries, or
LDCs, where usually small producers account for the bulk of agricultural
production and exports, have been unable to mobilize the investment and
training required to shift to new crops. It suggests compensating low-income economies for any
loss of trade preferences that result from the on-going WTO trade
negotiations. Weather
insurance, forward-pricing systems and market-based price insurance are some
of the schemes that have been proposed to deal with the inherent volatility
of agricultural markets.

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Key roles for FAO
Several roles that FAO can play to assist countries' efforts to achieve
the MDGs were identified.
The panel recognized the key role that FAO can play in raising the profile
and increasing awareness of the links between forests and the MDGs and in
enhancing regional and sub-regional cooperation in this area.

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"Forests not only make significant contributions to sustainable
development, but failure to achieve environmental stability -- including
through sustainable forest management -- will undermine social and economic
development goals.

Society: Issues: Environment: Population topics focus on the negative or positive impact of population increase or decrease within an ecosystem, governmental region, or on a global scale.

commonplace perceived

Heads of State and other high level government officials will gather at
the United Nations in New York in September in a high level segment of the
General Assembly to review progress in implementation of the UN Millennium
Declaration and the MDGs.
While markets for agricultural products in developing countries are the
fastest growing, the report warns that they are also generally heavily
protected.

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FAO Committed to Helping Realize Development Goals

WASHINGTON and ROME, Forests contribute directly
to reducing extreme poverty and hunger and ensuring environmental
sustainability, two of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a panel of
forestry experts invited to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has
concluded. "It accounts for about three percent of global
trade and one percent of global direct capital investments .

Agriculture Commodity Prices Continue Long-Term Decline

The report calls for measures that would help LDCs improve their capacity
to take advantage of trading opportunities and to participate more effectively
in trade negotiations.

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And an estimated
12.
According to The State of Agricultural Commodity Markets 2004 (SOCO 2004),
many farmers and exporting countries still find themselves trapped by their
dependency -- producing and exporting more, but earning less than they did in
the past.
"On the other hand," Mr. However, the report
acknowledges that the same downward pressure on commodity prices may also
reduce the food import bills of developing countries .

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9 million people are employed in the sector.
As many as 43 developing countries depend on a single commodity for more
than 20 percent of their total revenues from merchandise exports. It calls for
the elimination of tariff escalation that penalizes exports of processed
goods from developing countries. At the same time, it urges developing
countries to reduce their tariffs in order to encourage trade among
themselves and to allow their consumers to benefit from lower world prices.

addressed distortion

They also have difficulties meeting
the high quality standards and strict delivery deadlines of the major
supermarket chains in the developed countries.

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population equitable

Poor people's agricultural
activities also benefit from the role of forests and trees through
contributions to land productivity, enhancing crop and livestock production,
and providing genetic resources, among other services. However, not
all commodities have performed the same.

Some developing countries manage to diversify
Commenting on SOCO 2004, Hartwig de Haen, FAO Assistant Director-General,
Economic and Social Department, said: "The long-term downward trend in
commodity prices along with increased productivity and production of major
agricultural export commodities have divided developing countries into two
distinct groups.

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"
The panel recognized forests' contribution to environmental sustainability
by providing a range of environmental services and by furnishing renewable
wood and non-wood products , many substitutes for which are not renewable or as
environmentally friendly. FAO is fully committed to helping countries realize the
potential contributions of forests to their national development goals," said
Hosny El Lakany, Assistant Director-General, FAO Forestry Department. A drought or a drop in prices on the international
markets can quickly drain their foreign exchange reserves, stifle their
ability to pay for essential imports and plunge them into debt, the report
warns .
It also highlights the need for developing countries to improve their
capacity to take advantage of opportunities opened by trade liberalization.

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On the one hand, we have the developing countries that have
managed to become less dependent on one or two agricultural commodities,
some shifting production into high value export crops.
Programmes to help farmers insure against shocks that could damage their
crops or undermine prices are among the report's recommendations.

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The panel highlighted the significant contribution of forests and trees
outside forests to the MDGs, emphasizing that sustainable forest management
and sustainable development are closely linked, as recognized at the World
Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in 2002.
SOCO 2004 also says that lower prices for basic foods enable many poor
food importing countries and their consumers, especially in urban areas, to
meet their food needs at lower cost and to gain access to nutritious diets. Most suffer from
widespread poverty.

perceived wellbeing

The livelihoods of the approximately 240 million of the world's poor that
live in forested areas of developing countries depend on the protection and,
in many cases, the rehabilitation of these forests.
Price recovery has been far more fragile for tropical beverages, sugar and
bananas, according to the report, which points out that these are some of
the very commodities on which the poorest countries are most dependent for
their export earnings.

There are many causes of population increase such as longer lifespans due to advanced healthcare, better diets , increased agricultural production.

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Experts Emphasize Forests' Contribution to the MDGs

In promoting the achievement of the MDGs, it was recommended that FAO
continue to support countries ' efforts to enhance participatory processes in
the forest sector as well as to encourage corporate social responsibility
(CSR) in the private forestry sector."

The dangers of depending on a few agricultural commodities
Many developing countries rely on exports of a small number of
agricultural commodities, even a single commodity, for a large share of their
export revenues .

On the otherhand, in crowded cities such as Tokyo, a large population growth might add complications in the cost of housing, unemployment rates, and car pollution.

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And it was recommended that FAO assist countries to
carry out analyses of the forest-poverty links in their national context, to
increase the visibility of the forest sector in their Poverty Reduction
Strategy Papers and other sustainable development plans, and to reflect
poverty reduction and food security adequately in their national forest
programs. Trend Has Negative and Positive Impacts on Food Security in Poorest
Developing Countries

WASHINGTON and ROME and GENEVA, The long-term
downward trend in agricultural commodity prices threatens the food security of
hundreds of millions of people in some of the world's poorest developing
countries where the sale of commodities is often the only source of cash, says
a new report released today by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

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FAO's Agenda for Action to combat commodity oversupply
SOCO 2004 lays out an agenda for action to combat the growing problems
caused by oversupply and market distortions.

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Kaimowitz .

Declines in agricultural commodity prices slow
While the overall trend in commodity prices has been downward from the
late 1990s through 2001, the report shows that prices on world markets have
rebounded, or at least levelled off, over the past two years.
Increased investment to improve productivity of domestic food production
in developing countries is also recommended by the FAO report, along with
mobilizing resources to support generic promotion campaigns and
diversification into non-traditional agricultural exports and the export of
value added processed goods.

Population growth can be a positive or negative effect on an area, depending on pre-existing conditions in an area .

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Forests' contributions to achieve the MDGs
"Forest products can contribute directly to the goal of reducing poverty
and hunger by providing cash income, jobs, and consumption goods for poor
families," said Dr. David Kaimowitz, Director-General of the Center for
International Forestry Research, who chaired the meeting.

Sustained international commitment to the MDGs
The panel's views come at a time when international attention and national
efforts are focused on efforts to achieve the goals. This concentration leaves them exposed to unfavourable market
or climatic conditions.

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Commodity dependence made worse by market distortions
Because many of these countries depend on agricultural commodity exports
to finance food imports, a decline in the prices of exports relative to the
prices of imports can threaten food security."
The report urges the elimination of market distortions, and warns that
high agricultural tariffs and producer subsidies in developed countries limit
market access and depress commodity prices.

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The Ministerial Meeting on Forests and FAO's Committee on Forestry, both
to be held in Rome in March, are expected to help raise additional
international awareness of the role of forests in sustainable development and
to identify actions to help realize forests' potential contribution to the
realization of the MDGs.

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There have been rebounds in cereals,
oil crops, dairy products, fibres and raw materials , while horticultural
product prices remained more sensitive to market balance and meat prices were
disrupted by animal disease outbreaks.

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Most of
these countries are in sub-Saharan Africa or Latin America and the Caribbean
and depend on exports of sugar, coffee, cotton and bananas.
The report warns that "these problems are exacerbated by market
distortions, arising from tariffs and subsidies in developed countries,
tariffs in developing countries and the market power in some commodity supply
chains of large transnational corporations. It urges World Trade
Organization negotiations to give priority to reducing agricultural tariffs,
producer support and export subsidies in developed countries.