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    Interventions for achieving sustainability in tropical forest and agricultural landscapes

    CGIAR System-wide Program on Property Rights and Collective Action, 2013
    The rapid expansion of commodity agriculture in tropical forest landscapes is a key  driver of deforestation. To meet the growing demand from a more prosperous and  expanding global population, it is imperative to develop sustainable commodity  supply chains that support higher agricultural productivity, and that enable improved environmental, economic, and social outcomes.
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    Predicting Future Conflict under REDD+ Implementation

    Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2013
    With the current complexity of issues facing forest and land management, the implementation of the REDD+ initiative comes with significant risks, including conflict.
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    DETERring deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon: environmental monitoring and law enforcement

    Climate Policy Initiative, 2013
    This study asks: which specific policy efforts contributed most to the reduction in Amazon deforestation? The paper, which evaluates the impact of monitoring on deforestation, focuses on DETER, a satellite-based system for real-time detection of deforestation. DETER is the key tool for targeting law enforcement activities in the Brazilian Amazon.
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    Land tenure and fast-tracking REDD+: time to reframe the debate?

    Global Canopy Programme, 2013
    This paper argues that legal reform of land tenure will not take place fast enough to enable developing countries to reduce carbon emissions from deforestation and forest degradation through REDD+. It highlights that a global agreement on REDD+ is needed by 2020, if the mechanism is to have a significant impact on mitigating climate change.
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    Bringing people back into protected forests in developing countries: insights from co-management in Malawi

    Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2013
    Focusing on Malawi, this study examines struggles to bring people back into protected forests to enhance sustainable forest management and livelihoods using insights emerging from a co-management project in Malawi. It uses mixed social science methods to analyse continuing local forest-user commitment to co-management despite conservation burdens largely for minimal financial benefits.
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    Envisioning the future and learning from the past: adapting to a changing environment in northern Mali

    Elsevier, 2013
    In West Africa, rural livelihoods that dependon natural resources develop coping and adapting strategies to face climate variability or change, and economic or political changes. The former Lake Faguibine in northern Mali has experienced drastic ecological, social, and economic changes. Forests have emerged on the former lake and have become important for local livelihoods.
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    Forests and trees for social adaptation to climate variability and change

    Center for International Forestry Research, 2012
    Ecosystems provide crucial services to help people adapt to climate change. In conducting a review of the scientific literature, this paper shows how ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation can reduce social vulnerability to climate hazards, and highlights knowledge gaps and trade-offs that require more research.
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    Putting the pieces together for good governance of REDD+: an analysis of 32 REDD+ country readiness proposals

    World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 2013
    The Forest Carbon Partnership Facility Readiness Fund and the United Nations Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (UN-REDD) are supporting capacity building efforts in preparation from REDD+ implementation.
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    Carbon stocks of tropical coastal wetlands within the karstic landscape of the Mexican Caribbean

    PLoS ONE, 2013
    As one of the most carbon (C) rich ecosystems in the world, the conservation and restoration of tropical wetlands represent a priority for climate change mitigation. Deforestation, agri/aqua culture conversion, pollution and coastal development have all contributed to the loss of over one-third of mangroves in the last fifty years; a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions.
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    Trees, livelihoods, landscapes: annual report 2011-2012

    World Agroforestry Centre, 2012
    This annual report for 2011-2012 of the World Agroforestry Centre advocates the introduction of 'evergreen agriculture'. On one hand, agroforestry can improve livelihoods, restore degraded soils and raise crop productivity.

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