The attached note has been prepared by the Delegation of Finland as background material for discussion under Item 3 (b) at the DAC Meeting with Arab aid agencies, to be held on 18th-20th June 1980 in Paris.
Reafforestation in East Africa - Exploration of the Potential of Energy Forestry
1. Introduction
During the recent decades, most of the reafforestation activities carried out in East Africa have had a clear production objective: to find suitable species and methods for cultivating abundant and high-quality raw material for the expanding timber industry, and also for the pulp and paper industry expected to be established later. This work has resulted, for instance, in those high-yielding exotic pine forests found nowadays in many sites around the East African Highlands (1).
