Angesichts wohl gefüllter Regale in unseren Supermärkten kaum vorstellbar, aber die Zeiten einer gesicherten Welternährung gehen zu Ende. Seit zwei Jahren explodieren die Preise für Reis, Mais und Weizen. Allein in den letzten sechs Monaten haben sie sich verdoppelt. In Asien reichte das...

In different continents there is a paradigm of a vicious circle of poverty and natural resource degradation. However, there are cases where this may not be true. Thus, the central objective of this study was to analyze the relationship between rural poverty and soil degradation in land reform...

This paper examines the role and impact of taxation on sustainable forest management. It is shown that fiscal instruments neither reinforce nor substitute for traditional regulatory approaches. Far from encouraging more sustainable forest management, fiscal instruments such as an inappropriate...