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Brazil has 12 percent of the global forest area, being the second largest forest area in the world (4,935,380 km2).Robust efforts by multiple government agencies have contributed to the reduction of annual deforestation rates in the Amazon by nearly 80 percent since 2004, to the lowest levels...
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Mozambique has 34 million hectares (ha) of natural forests, covering 43 percent of its area. The predominant forest ecosystem is the miombo, covering about two thirds of the total forest area. Other forest ecosystems include internationally recognized biodiversity hotspots, such as the coastal...
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and Kashmir (9.6 percent), and Gilgit-Baltistan (7 percent). The World Bank supported Pakistan's forestry sector until …
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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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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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-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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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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The purpose of this report is to review and disseminate lessons learned from domestically financed forestry programs in …
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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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