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Livestock systems globally are changing rapidly in response to human population growth, urbanization, and growing incomes. This paper discusses the linkages between burgeoning demand for livestock products, growth in livestock production, and the impacts this may have on natural resources, and...
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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 areas. Annual time series of these deforestation rates were … of park characteristics was conducted to test if deforestation is lower in protected areas because of their protected …
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applied over the course of the coming century shows that although some deforestation is optimal in the near term, in the … absence of climate change regulation, the desirability of further deforestation is eliminated by mid-century. Although adverse … prices lead to significant deforestation and higher greenhouse gas emissions than in the baseline. Imposition of a global …
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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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domestic deregulation affected the coffee sector, its main source of export revenues. Using data from three household surveys … covering the 1990s, the authors confirm a strong correlation between changes in coffee prices (in a liberalized market) and … dependence on coffee farming. Regression analysis (based on pooled data from the three surveys) of consumption expenditure on …
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After experiencing a boom during the mid-1990s, the performance of Uganda's coffee industry has been disappointing …, weak regulatory framework, and poor infrastructure. Recommendations range from setting up a coffee auction to increasing … facts of the Ugandan coffee industry. It argues that the coffee wilt disease and the effectiveness of the coffee replanting …
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contracts without product grading. To do this, the study uses original data from a survey of 450 coffee producers in Tanzania …'s coffee market that take advantage of contractual variation in the Kilimanjaro region. The results indicate that coffee …
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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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mandates and targets. The study also shows, contrary to common perceptions, that the rate of deforestation does not increase … with the rate of biofuel expansion; instead, the marginal rate of deforestation and corresponding land-use emissions …
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