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combining remote sensing data on land use and forest cover change with data from the census and multiple rounds of living …
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The 2007-2008 upsurge in agricultural commodity prices gave rise to widespread concern about investors causing a"global land rush". Large land deals can provide opportunities for better access to capital, transfer of technology, and advances in productivity and employment generation. But they...
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impacts of forest loss or protection, including both gross values of forest protection and opportunity costs of converting the … forest to other uses including agriculture. Important gross value items surveyed are timber and non-timber product extraction … from a sustainably maintained rainforest; local values of eco-tourism; biological resources including bio-prospecting; a …
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the 1991 Forest Strategy in World Bank operations and to obtain the views of the various stakeholders in the country about … the involvement of the Bank. Each country study examines the overall development of the country's forest sector. This … encompassing the economic uses of forests, particularly the management of forest resources for production, the role of forest …
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This case study is one of six evaluations of the implementation of the World Bank's 1991 Forest Strategy. This and the … contributing to the cautious approach urged by the 1991 Forest Strategy-and to a lack of demand in Brazil for Bank funds. Brazil …, it must be seen as an objective bystander. The 1991 Forest Strategy emphasizes the primacy of the rights of the …
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