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  Evidence linking community level tenure and forest condition: An annotated bibliography

  Climate and Land Use Alliance, 2014

  This annotated bibliography provides evidence that community tenure over forests can result in more forest cover and more species-rich forests, less deforestation and degradation, and fewer fires than some other approaches to protecting forests.
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  What drives deforestation and what stops it? A meta-analysis of spatially explicit econometric studies

  Center for Global Development, USA, 2014

  This paper presents a meta-analysis of what drives deforestation and what stops it. The researchers find that forests are more likely to be cleared where economic returns to agriculture and pasture are higher, either due to more favorable climatological and topographic conditions, or due to lower costs of clearing forest and transporting products to market.
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  Adoption and extent of conservation agriculture practices among smallholder farmers in Malawi

  2014

  Understanding factors affecting farmers’ adoption of improved technologies is critical to success of conservation agriculture (CA) program implementation.
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  Sustainable Intensification: A New Paradigm for African Agriculture

  Imperial College, University of London, 2013

  Sub-Saharan Africa is particularly vulnerable to global challenges such as food insecurity, climate change, rural poverty, malnutrition and environmental protection. This puts pressure on the fragile food production system.
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  British Journal of Environment and Climate Change

  British Journal of Environment and Climate Change (ISSN: 2231–4784) aims to publish original research articles, review articles and short communications.
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  Global Land Project (GLP)

  The Global Land Project is a research initiative of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) and the International Human Dimensions Programme (IHDP).
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  The future of environmental sustainability in the Taita Hills, Kenya: assessing potential impacts of agricultural expansion and climate change

  Fennia, 2012

  The indigenous cloud forests in the Taita Hills, Kenya, have suffered substantial degradation due to agricultural expansion. Currently, only one per cent of the original forested area remains preserved. Furthermore, climate change imposes an imminent threat for local economy and environmental sustainability.
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  Climate-friendly agriculture and the clean development mechanism: an assessment of future prospects for agriculture and land use change in Latin America

  Land Deal Politics Initiative, 2012

  Market solutions based on the trade of carbon offset credits remain a dominant feature in international climate change negotiations. This paper undertakes a preliminary assessment of potential of climate change mitigation projects by evaluating Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects related to agriculture and land use change in Latin America.
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  Land Deal Politics Initiative (LDPI)

  The objective of the Land Deal Politics Initiative is to provide a platform and network to generate solid evidence through detailed, field-based research that incorporates and complements a range of p
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  Technologies for climate change mitigation: agriculture sector

  United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2012

  This guidebook by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Technology Needs Assessment (TNA) project describes crop and livestock management technologies and practices that contribute to climate change mitigation while improving crop productivity and reducing reliance on synthetic fertilizers.

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