FAO

In 1994 forty four governments, meeting in Hot Springs, Virginia, the United States, commit themselves to founding a permanent organization for food and agriculture.

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), is a organism of the United Nations (ONU) in charge of achieving food security for all  to make sure people have regular access to enough high-quality food to lead active, healthy lives. 

the three main goals of the organism are: the eradication of hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition; the elimination of poverty and the driving forward of economic and social progress for all; and, the sustainable management and utilization of natural resources, including land, water, air, climate and genetic resources for the benefit of present and future generations.

In The Forestry this organism is very important for the social evaluations before start one project, because they evaluate the impact in the people and the review the legal part of this projects, this is very important because the human right of the people of this zones are not violated 

The Website: http://www.fao.org/home/es/

Uses of Quillay

Quillay or Quillaja saponaria is an species that can be found in the “litoral central” and the pre mountain area of the central valley of Chile, and its an endemic species of the country, belonging to the evergreen forest.

The Quillay has been exploited for its bark because  It has a substance in very high concentration called saponina but there are researches that indicate the presence of this substance in the wood and leaves of this tree (though in different concentrations), in is used to fabricate a lot of commercial products in areas like agriculture, pharmacology and food. Some medical uses are for bronchitis (cough mixture), cosmetic (some shampoo for the dandruff) or detergent, astringent and other like mining, ornamental and soil conservation.

This tree isn’t red list, (A list of specie take data of the tree and flowers and take list of endangered species in the world), but the practice of its  uses is very harmful  for his preservation, because when people make products of Quillay oblige to kill the tree in some cases such as the shampoo creation.q