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Satellite Monitoring for Forest Management : Use of Earth Observation Tools in the Monitoring of Tropical Dry Forests

World Bank Group - 2020

This briefing note presents some recent developments in satellite-based earth observation (EO) and how new and disruptive technology can improve understanding on tropical dry forests. It focuses on tools and algorithms developed by the Satellite Monitoring for Forest Management (SMFM) project...

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Public-Private-People Partnerships in Lao PDR Forestry Sector

World Bank Group - 2021

Successive national socio-economic development plans have identified the private sector as the main engine of growth and the government of Lao PDR (GoL) is committed to fostering a transition to a private-sector-led market economy. In line with that approach, the GoL has pursued an increased...

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Addressing Persistent Forest and Land Fires in Indonesia : Institutional and Expenditure Review of Fire Management

World Bank Group - 2021

Indonesia has experienced two major forest and land fire events in the past five years. According to government data, the 2015 and 2019 fire episodes led to the burning of around 2.6 million hectares and 1.6 million hectares,1 respectively. The fires and the resulting haze in 2019 led to...

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Gender Equity in Land and Forest Tenure in REDD+ Programming

World Bank Group - 2022

The purpose of this study is to understand the legal and policy constraints and opportunities in each of the 17-carbon fund (CF) countries affecting women's land and forest tenure. The study also explores women's ability to exercise land and forest rights in statutory and customary systems; how...

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Ukraine : Building Climate Resilience in Agriculture and Forestry

World Bank Group - 2021

Ukraine has made impressive progress on key reforms and restored macro-financial stability, but weak growth and poverty remain a concern. Despite these economic challenges, Ukraine recognizes climate change as the most consequential factor this century, affecting the economy and future...

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Gender-Dimensions of Collective Forest Tenure Reform in China

World Bank Group - 2016

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Managing Afghanistan's Rangelands and Forest Resources : An Assessment of Institutional and Technical Capacity Constraints

World Bank Group - 2018

Afghanistan has been in conflict and internal turmoil since the early 1970s, which has resulted in loss of life, insecurity, ethnic division, and wide-spread damage to the environment and natural resources. As citizens of one of the poorest nations in the world with an increasing poverty level...

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Forests for Green Pakistan : Forest Policy Note

World Bank Group - 2018

and Kashmir (9.6 percent), and Gilgit-Baltistan (7 percent). The World Bank supported Pakistan's forestry sector until …

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Regulatory Tools, Effective Markets, and Private Sector Participation in the Forestry and Wood Products Processing Sectors : Issues and Solutions for Developing Countries

World Bank Group - 2019

This report presents a framework for strengthening the effectiveness and efficiency of regulation of forestry and … related sectors. It strives to identify and reduce regulatory burdens on private firms active in the forestry sector, while … countries, has significant impact on national and global forestry product markets, leading to increasingly heavy regulation of …

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Myanmar Country Environmental Analysis : Assessing the Opportunities for Scaling Up Community Forestry and Community Forestry Enterprises in Myanmar

World Bank Group - 2019

and donor organizations, have recognized the potential of community forestry (CF) to address many of these challenges …)] of community forests by fiscal year 2030/31), legal frameworks (for example, Community Forestry Instructions [CFIs], 1995 …

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