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Impacts of Covid-19 on the World Bank's Forest Investment Program Portfolio

World Bank Group - 2023

With the COVID-19 pandemic, the development context for the world is fundamentally challenged in many ways. The pandemic has taken a drastic human toll, and its global-scale economic and social impacts affected rural development work focused on the most poor and vulnerable populations. It has...

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Reducing Wildfire Risk through Sustainable Forest Management : Lebanon Forest Note

World Bank Group - 2023

Lebanon's forest landscapes are unique in the Mediterranean region and, over the centuries, have provided multiple socioeconomic, cultural, and environmental benefits. However, societal changes have had a significant impact on these landscapes, putting them at risk of further degradation....

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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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Myanmar Country Environmental Analysis : Forest Resources Sector Report

World Bank Group - 2019

Myanmar's forest and timber sector has been central to the country's economy and society, particularly over the last century. Myanmar's forests contain some of the most valued species in the world-particularly rosewood, ironwood, and teak. Myanmar also has one of the most longstanding forest...

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Partnerships and Opportunities for a New Green Forest Economy in Lao PDR : Sustaining Forest Landscapes and Livelihoods

World Bank Group - 2019

Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) has a comparative advantage in natural capital, which has fueled economic growth averaging around 8 percent per annum since 2000. The natural resource endowment comprises half of the country's wealth. Although forest cover declined 3.6 percent between...

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Bhutan Forest Note : Pathways for Sustainable Forest Management and Socio-equitable Economic Development

World Bank Group - 2019

-forest ecosystems. The business case is based on an analysis of challenges and opportunities for making the forestry sector a dynamic …

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