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Tree Cover Loss in El Salvador's Shade Coffee Areas
Blackman, Allen; Ávalos Sartorio, Beatriz; Chow, Jeffrey - 2007
Shade coffee farms in Central America provide important ecological services. But because international coffee prices have fallen since 1990, many have been cleared to make way for more remunerative land uses. This problem is of particular concern in heavily deforested El Salvador, where a large...
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WSSD 2002, Latin America and Brazil: Biodiversity and Indigenous People
Begossi, Alpina; Ávila-pires, Fernando Dias de - In: Environment, Development and Sustainability 5 (2003) 1, pp. 179-195
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Civil Society and Land Use Policy in Uganda: The Mabira Forest Case
Hönig, Patrick - In: Africa Spectrum 49 (2014) 2, pp. 53-77
Over the past few years, the Ugandan government has repeatedly initiated proceedings to clear one-fourth of the Mabira natural forest reserve in central Uganda and give the land to a sugar company controlled by a transnational business conglomerate. Each time the government took steps to execute...
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Effects of Poverty on Deforestation: Distinguishing behaviour from location
Kerr, Suzi; Pfaff, Alexander; Cavatassi, Romina; Davis, … - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2004
We summarize existing theoretical claims linking poverty to rates of deforestation and then examine this linkage … deforestation. Our data facilitate an empirical analysis of the implications for deforestation of where the poor live. Without …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755017
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Integrating Forest Cover Change with Census Data: Drivers and Contexts from Bolivia and the Lao PDR
Boillat, Sébastien; Dao, Hy; Bottazzi, Patrick; … - In: Land 4 (2015) 1, pp. 45-82
, but also policies that lead to forest gain in one case. Poverty does not appear as a driver of deforestation, but the co …. La pauvreté n’apparait pas comme un facteur de déforestation, mais la co-occurrence de la pauvreté et de la perte de …
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Auswertung von Daten des Integrierten Verwaltungs- und Kontrollsystems zur Abschätzung der EU-Agrarreform auf Umwelt und Landschaft: Bericht für das F+E-Vorhaben 'Naturschutzfachli...
Osterburg, Bernhard; Nitsch, Heike; Laggner, Birgit; … - Bundesforschungsinstitut für Lädliche Räume, Wald … - 2009
- Effizienzsteigerung durch Nutzung bestehender Datenbestände', das durch das Bundesamt für Naturschutz (BfN) mit Mitteln des … Bundesministeriums für Umwelt, Naturschutz und Reaktorsicherheit gefördert wurde. Ziel dieses Projektes war die Untersuchung … (Bundesamt für Naturschutz) with funds of the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety. The …
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Faktencheck Agrarpolitik: Beitrag der EU-Agrarreform zur Bewirtschaftung organischer Böden im Einklang mit Natur- und Klimaschutz - Möglichkeiten und Grenzen
Röder, Norbert; Osterburg, Bernhard; Liebersbach, Horst; … - Bundesforschungsinstitut für Lädliche Räume, Wald … - 2014
Die vorliegende Studie baut auf den im Dezember 2013 veröffentlichen Basisrechtsakten zur künftigen Gemeinsamen Agrarpolitik (GAP) der EU auf und nimmt die möglichen Auswirkungen dieses Politikpaketes auf den Moorschutz in den Blick. Einführend werden dazu die Ziele des Natur- und...
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Equitable access to land as a means of poverty reduction in rural china
Hao, Yan - Abteilung "Ungleichheit und soziale Integration", … - 2011
In China, as in many developing countries, poverty is primarily a rural phenomenon. Considerable efforts have been made over the last few decades to reduce poverty in China's rural areas; and indeed, the poverty rate in these areas has fallen from 30.7% in 1978 to 3.8% in 2009. This paper begins...
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Building on the positive: an actor innovation systems approach to finding and promoting pro poor natural resources institutional and technical innovations
Biggs, Stephen - In: International Journal of Agricultural Resources, … 6 (2007) 2, pp. 144-164
This paper argues that if policies and programmes for the promotion of rural and agricultural technological and institutional innovations are restricted to the framework of the linear 'pipeline' model of R&D and extension, then many opportunities for reducing rural poverty and improving social...
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The Geography of American Poverty: Is There a Need for Place-Based Policies?
Partridge, Mark D.; Rickman, Dan S. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
Partridge and Rickman explore the underlying spatial, demographic, and economic contributors to poverty rates and examine the spatial variation of state and county poverty rates and their trends over time. They conclude that a unique combination of place-based and person-based policies is needed...
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