Conservation of high-biodiversity tropical forests is sometimes justified on the basis of assumed hydrological benefits - in particular, the reduction of flooding hazards for downstream floodplain populations. However, the "far-field" link between deforestation and distant flooding has been...

Conservation of high-biodiversity tropical forests is sometimes justified on the basis of assumed hydrological benefits - in particular, reduction of flooding hazards for downstream floodplain populations. However, the 'far-field' link between deforestation and distant flooding has been...

This report provides a short description of the maps and tables produced by Kate Sebastian (on behalf of IFPRI) for Chapter 2 of the World Development Report 2008: Agriculture for Development. The report is organized by maps and then tables, with complete references for all of the input datasets...