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impacts of Mexico's national payments for ecosystem services program, which provides five years of payments to landowners in … deforestation (by 29 percent compared to controls), with effects being larger for those that have been in the program the longest … of the United Nations Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation. The data also show that …
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Despite losing global market share over the last 20 years, Uganda remains a major coffee producer, accounting for … approximately 2.5 percent of global coffee production. In 2008-2009, coffee exports accounted for almost a quarter of Uganda …, the coffee industry is extremely important to both the rural population and the Ugandan economy. However, the sector …
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Agriculture, and the patterns of land-use change that are associated with it, have a significant ecological footprint, including the effects it has on climate change, accounting for about one-quarter of anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions globally. Yet agriculture is also the only...
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Agriculture, and the patterns of land use change that are associated with it, have a high environmental footprint and contribute to climate change, as the sector accounts for about one-quarter of anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions globally. However, improved land management practices...
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anthropogenic GHG emissions, mainly due to deforestation and agricultural emissions from livestock, soil, and nutrient management …
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).Robust efforts by multiple government agencies have contributed to the reduction of annual deforestation rates in the Amazon …
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There have been few efforts to evaluate whether the positive land use changes induced by conservation interventions such as Payments for Environmental Services (PES) persist once the interventions end. Since gains achieved by conservation interventions may be lost upon termination of the...
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The climate change (CC) caused by increase in atmospheric concentration of CO2 and other Greenhouse Gases (GHGs), can be addressed through adaptation and mitigation strategies. Adaptation consists of strategies which minimize vulnerability to CC. The objective is to increase resilience of the...
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The report examines the current tourism development and market of the Presovsky Samospravny Kraj, Presov Self-Governing Region (PSK), focusing particularly on the lagging district of Snina and the National Park of Poloniny, and the opportunities for their improvement as potential drivers of...
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