Agenda 21 recommends: (a) launching graduate and post-graduate degree, specialization and research programmes in forestry and forest management, and (b) establishing and/or strengthening institutions for forest education and training, as well as forestry industries, so as to develop an adequate cadre of trained and skilled staff at the professional, technical and vocational levels, with emphasis on youth and women.
Since 1983 the International Development Research Center (IDRC) of Canada and the Ministry of Forestry of the Peoples' Republic of China have jointly organised and sponsored an International Farm Forestry Training Programme. It is hoped that through this training programme it will give benefit to other countries which face similar problems of competing priorities between agricultural and wood production.