Search

Searching with a thematic focus on Environment, Agriculture and food

Showing 1111-1120 of 1304 results

Pages

• Document

  Deforestation and Land Use on the Evolving Frontier: An Empirical Assessment [in Nicaragua]

  Harvard Institute for International Development, Cambridge Mass., 1999

  The advance of the agricultural frontier constitutes the biggest source of deforestation in Central America today. This conversion of tropical forests into agricultural land and pasture is the direct result of individual land use decisions.
• Document

  Trade Restrictions and Their Impact on International Trade in Forest Products

  Forestry Department, FAO, 2000

  Examines whether, and in what way, trade restrictions of various types impact on forest products trade. Firstly looks at the more long-standing trade barriers affecting forest products, which have been, and are still being, used largely for economic or social rather than environmental reasons. It considers how significant these barriers are.
• Document

  The Perestroika of Aid?: New Perspectives on conditionality

  Christian Aid, 1999

  Reviews policy arguements on conditionality and recommends and NGO standpoint. Discussed in the context of the Wolfenson/World Bank Comprehensive Development Framework.Argues that NGOs' engagement in the conditionality debate has largely focused on concerns about donors' policy prescriptions and advocating alternatives.
• Document

  Final Report of the World Commission on Forests and Sustainable Development (WCFSD)

  World Commission on Forests and Sustainable Development, 1999

  Final report and proceedings of hearing leading up it.
• Document

  Tree Maps: A Tool for Structuring, Exploring and Summarising Qualitative Information

  Centre for Development Studies, Swansea, 1997

  Tool makes use of qualitative information. This is in the form of important distinctions or differences that people see in the world around them. Important differences are those that make a difference. Differences that make a difference can be described as information.
• Document

  The EU Tropical Forestry Sourcebook

  Overseas Development Institute, 1999

  Analyses EU policy and investment in tropical forests.Five chapters examine the various EC Directorates-General with forestry interests, a sixth deals with elements common to several of them. Fifteen investigate each Member State’s policies and activities in tropical forestry, both country and DG chapters being written in collaboration with in-country research associates.
• Document

  Uña de Gato: Fate and Future of a Peruvian Forest Resource

  Center for International Forestry Research, 1999

  Uncaria tomentosa and U. guíanensis have been important in traditional healing in many South American countries. These species contain some sixty active substances which are widely tested for possible medical treatments. U. tomentosa has been traded from Peru until it reached a peak export of 726 tonnes in 1996.
• Document

  A Methodology to Analyze Divergent Case Studies of Non-Timber Forest Products and Their Development Potential

  Center for International Forestry Research, 1999

  Debate currently rages over the development potential of Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFP) in tropical forests. Proponents of particular “solutions” can refer to evidence (case studies, data) which tend to support their interpretation of events and relationships. Recommendations thus frequently depend on how data are classified and interpreted.
• Document

  Land Tenancy in Asia, Africa and Latin America: A Look to the Past and a View to the Future

  Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1999

  Literature review, focusing on recent and contemporary tenancy structures in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Tenancy for purposes of this review is broadly defined to include different leasing arrangements such sharecropping, labor tenancy, fixed cash rentals, and reverse leasing.
• Document

  Rethinking the Causes of Deforestation: Lessons from Economic Models

  World Bank Research Observer, 1999

  Synthesizes the results of more than 140 economic models analyzing the causes of tropical deforestation. Raises significant doubts about many conventional hypotheses in the debate about deforestation. More roads, higher agricultural prices, lower wages, and a shortage of off-farm employment generally lead to more deforestation.

Pages