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forestry in Mozambique than in Brazil, South Africa, and Uganda. Yet, unit costs per cubic meter of eucalyptus timber produced …. Yet, deforestation and imports of high-end wood products are rekindling interest in plantation forestry, with recognition … of the need for community involvement. Integration of smaller-scale forestry into community land use patterns is taking …
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This paper considers the potential for improvements in forestry revenue management to complement other efforts toward … sustainable forest management and to strengthen domestic resource mobilization. It describes forestry management as an extreme …
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For almost a decade now, the World Bank's Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) has been supporting efforts to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD ), in the global fight against climate change. A key component of this work has been to ensure the full and...
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learned about the role of community forestry as a strategic option to achieve the goals of Reducing Emissions from … Environment Facility (GEF), and coordinated by the Amazonas Sustainable Foundation (FAS) with support from the National Forestry … conceptual approach to community forestry and REDD+; (ii) the key issues of REDD+ in connection with community forestry in Africa …
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Carbon finance recognizes the contribution of projects to mitigating climate change. To be able to access carbon finance, projects can certify their emission reductions under a variety of standards, one of which is the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the United Nations Framework Convention...
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, groundwater management, conjunctive use, water quality, and sediment transport …This document provides an overview of how water resource software's (WRS) are used to manage water resources issues … use for water management. The water resource issues covered include water allocation and planning, flood management …
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The impacts of climate change will be channeled primarily through the water cycle, with consequences that could be … large and uneven across the globe. Water-related climate risks cascade through food, energy, urban, and environmental … systems. Growing populations, rising incomes, and expanding cities will converge upon a world where the demand for water rises …
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Water, energy, and agriculture have been conventionally dealt with separately in investment planning. For each of these …, this report applies scenario analysis and integrated assessment modelling of the water-energy-food nexus to the Middle East … and North Africa. The analysis finds that water scarcity increases in all countries in the region over the coming decades …
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and provides recommendations on what policy and structural reforms are needed to develop the business of weather, water …
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