Forest plantations now cover more than 187 million hectares, less than 5 percent of total forested area, but account for 20 percent of current
world wood production.
Production of roundwood (logs) on plantations is estimated at 432 million cubic meters per year, accounting for 12 percent of
world wood production.
Not exact matches
But by 1900,
production had reached 60 million barrels annually as
world markets replaced
wood and whale oil with petroleum and coal as the fuels of choice.
Home to the Glasgow Sculpture Studios, the building hosts
world - class
production facilities in
wood, metal, plaster and ceramics.
Constant, OriëntSector (1959), (metal, ink on Perspex and oil paint on
wood): Motivated by the utopian notion that
World War II had ushered in a new era in which the automation of all
production would bring about a stable, classless society, Dutch artist Constant began a two - decade - long project to devise an appropriately progressive architecture and urban planning practice.
«As the
world's population grows, people will increasingly rely on marginal lands — particularly drylands — for
production of food,
wood and biofuels.
Widely differing systems of
production and use of
wood energy exist throughout the
world, and there are likely to be a range of responses to the recent shifts in energy policy in various countries.