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The effect of climate and technological uncertainty in crop yields on the optimal path of global land use

Cai, Yongyang; Steinbuks, Jevgenijs; Elliott, Joshua; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

The pattern of global land use has important implications for the world's food and timber supplies, bioenergy, biodiversity and other eco-system services. However, the productivity of this resource is critically dependent on the world's climate, as well as investments in, and dissemination of...

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Protected areas and deforestation : new results from high resolution panel data

Blankespoor, Brian; Dasgupta, Susmita; Wheeler, David - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

This paper investigates the effectiveness of protected areas in slowing tropical forest clearing in 64 countries in Asia/Pacific, Africa, and Latin America for the period 2001-2012. The investigation compares deforestation rates inside and within 10 kilometers outside the boundary of protected...

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Measuring the initial impacts on deforestation of Mato Grosso's program for environmental control

Chomitz, Kenneth M.; Wertz-Kanounnikoff, Sheila - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2005

Although private forest use in Brazil has been regulated at least since the Forest Code of 1965, cumulative deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon reached 653,000 km2 by 2003 (INPE 2004). Much of this deforestation is illegal. In 1999, the State Foundation of the Environment (FEMA) in Mato Grosso...

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Tropical timber trade policies : what impact will eco-labeling have?

Varangis, Panayotis N.; Primo Braga, Carlos A.; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1993

About 20 percent of the total production of tropical timber is traded internationally. But for Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, and some countries in West-Central Africa, tropical timber trade accounts for more than 50 percent of production. Although the tropical timber trade has often...

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Fuelwood stumpage : financing renewable energy for the world's other half

Openshaw, Keith; Feinstein, Charles - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1989

In many developing countries, households rely heavily on woodfuels (firewood and charcoal) as their main source of energy for cooking and heating. The internal trade in woodfuels is often sizable. African governments now collect stumpage fees of $30 million a year for fuelwood and charcoalwood,...

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Fuelwood consumption and participation in community forestry in India

Bandyopadhyay, Sushenjit; Shyamsundar, Priya - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2004

of the impacts of community forestry. The authors try to fill this gap by analyzing National Sample Survey data from 524 … villages in five states in India. Their analysis seeks to answer two key questions: (1) Who participates in community forestry … village participation in community forestry. Household participation is strongly correlated with scarcity, a result that has …

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What drives deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon? Evidence from satellite and socioeconomic data

Pfaff, Alexander S.P. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1997

This paper analyzes the determinants of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. From a model of optimal use, it derives and then estimates a deforestation equation on county-level data for the period 1978 to 1988. The data include a deforestation measure from satellite images, which is a great...

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Land rights and economic development : evidence from Vietnam

Do, Quy-Toan; Iyer, Lakshmi - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2003

The authors examine the impact of land reform in Vietnam which gives households the power to exchange, transfer, lease, inherit, and mortgage their land-use rights. The authors expect this change to increase the incentives as well as the ability to undertake long-term investments on the part of...

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Migration, remittances and forests : disentangling the impact of population and economic growth on forests

Tiwari, Sailesh; Bhattarai, Keshav - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2011

International migration has increased rapidly in recent decades and this has been accompanied by a remarkable increase in transfers made by migrants to their home countries. This paper investigates the effect of the rural economic growth brought about by migration and remittances on Nepal's...

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What drives the global"land rush"?

Arezki, Rabah; Deininger, Klaus; Selod, Harris - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2011

The 2007-2008 upsurge in agricultural commodity prices gave rise to widespread concern about investors causing a"global land rush". Large land deals can provide opportunities for better access to capital, transfer of technology, and advances in productivity and employment generation. But they...

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