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Challenges and opportunities for the sustainable development of cattle raising in Brazil
Reis, Eustáquio José - 2016
The paper provides historical and analytical perspectives for the assessment of the challenges and opportunities of cattle raising activities in the transition towards a lowcarbon agriculture in Brazil. It is organized as follows. The next section presents long run historical perspectives on the...
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Determinants of agricultural fires: an aggregative games approach
Maldonado, Wilfredo Leiva; Barbosa, Jessica A. - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014372655
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Effects of protected areas on forest cover change and local communities : evidence from the Peruvian Amazon
Miranda, Juan José; Corral, Leonardo; Blackman, Allen; … - 2014
Protected areas are a cornerstone of forest conservation in developing countries. Yet we know little about their effects on forest cover change or the socioeconomic status of local communities, and even less about the relationship between these effects. This paper assesses whether 'win-win'...
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Determinants of agricultural fires : an aggregative games approach
Maldonado, Wilfredo Leiva; Barbosa, Jessica A. - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014432550
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Open geodata of the LaForeT project landscapes in Ecuador, the Philippines and Zambia
Fischer, Richard; Weber, Rubén; Kabwe, Gillian; … - 2024
impact of policy instruments on deforestation and reforestation processes as well as land-use dynamics and sustainability in …
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Economic and policy mechanisms affecting land use decisions in the Brazilian agricultural frontier
Miranda Arana, A. Javier - 2021
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Rewards for results? : climate change, deforestation and land use
Speirs, Mike - 2023
Since the mid-2000s, a global effort has been made to tackle deforestation and forest degradation in order to reduce … Bolivia, Ghana and Indonesia, three tropical forest countries. Slow progress has been made, but deforestation continues as a … 'deforestation-free products' is needed. In addition, the way forward requires the rights and responsibilities of stakeholders …
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Effects of oil palm expansion and other related land-use changes on the livelihoods of rural households in Indonesia
Bou Dib, Jonida - 2018
The demand for agricultural land is globally increasing due to population growth and dietary diversification. As the availability of agricultural land is limited, much of the cropland expansion is occurring at the expense of tropical forests. During the past few decades, oil palm has become one...
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Logging concessions, certification & protected areas in the Peruvian Amazon : forest impacts from combinations of development rights & land-use restrictions
Rico, Jimena; Panlasigui, Stephanie; Loucks, Colby J.; … - 2018
In this paper, we use geospatial data and difference-in-differences models to identify the deforestation effects …
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Drivers of households' land-use decisions : a critical review of micro-level studies in tropical regions
Hettig, Elisabeth; Lay, Jann; Sipangule, Kacana - 2015
Keywords: land-use change, farm households, deforestation, meta-analysis, micro-level … countries. This is surprising, since evi-dence hints at high deforestation rates in South-East Asia due to logging activities …
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