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  Bioforsk / Norwegian Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Research

  Bioforsk conducts applied and specifically targeted research linked to multifunctional agriculture and rural development, plant sciences, environmental protection and natural resource management.
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  Real-time evaluation of Norway’s international climate and forest initiative: contributions to national REDD+ Processes 2007-2010, country report: Democratic Republic of Congo

  Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2011

  Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is a high forest cover – low deforestation rate country emerging from a long period of political and civil instability that eroded public and social institutions.
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  Real-time evaluation of Norway’s international climate and forest initiative: contributions to a Global REDD+ Regime 2007-2010

  Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2011

  The Norwegian Government launched its International Climate and Forest Initiative in December 2007, aiming at reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries (REDD). In order to assess the results of the Initiative with regard to its objectives, Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad) organised a real-time evaluation starting in early 2010.
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  Afforestation subsidy under asymmetric information and transaction cost in developing countries: does rural capital market imperfection matter?

  Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2009

  This paper deals with the design of voluntary contract of afforestation subsidy in developing countries, where there are substantial variations among farmers in terms of land value. The dispersion in the land value is due to critical difficulty in capital market, where the rate of return to land is determined by household rate of time preference.
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  Tenure security and forest tenure reform in China

  Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2009

  This study assesses the determinants of forestland allocation to households in the forest tenure reforms in China in the period 1980-2005. It also examines the current level of tenure security on forestland and how this tenure security is affected by past and more recent policy changes.
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  Vulnerability to climate stress:local and regional perspectives: proceedings of two workshops

  Center for International Climate and Environmental Research, Oslo, 2005

  This report discusses the proceedings of two related workshops, which presented the findings of the project “Adaptation as a livelihood struggle: conflict and vulnerability among dryland populations in Kenya”. This research looked at how conflicts shape adaptation and contribute to vulnerability in the face of climate stresses, such as drought.
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  Do the poor benefit from devolution policies: evidence from Malawi’s forest co-management program

  Department of Economics and Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2005

  This paper asks: do local people and in particular vulnerable groups benefit from the devolution of forest management? Although there are many studies that indicate village-level organisations have an impact in resource conservations, few have analysed the net benefits.
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  Impact of carbon value on profitability of improved fallow agroforestry systems in Kigezi highlands, Uganda

  Faculty of Forestry, University of Toronto, 2004

  The economic advantages of improved agro forestry fallow systems over traditional continuous cropping systems are important tools that can be used to influence the choice of land use options at household levels. In Kigezi highlands Uganda, the upper parts of farmers’ crop field terraces are degraded due to continuous cropping.
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  Technical efficiency in the spice based agroforestry sector in Matale, Sri Lanka

  Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2004

  This paper looks at factors affecting the efficiency of the spice based agroforestry sector. The technical efficiency of spice based agroforestry systems was estimated in order to identify the potential increase in production without incurring additional costs for farm inputs.
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  Institutions and organisations in pasture and forestry management

  Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 1998

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