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  Biodiversity Conservation in the Tropics - gaps in habitat protected and funding priorities

  UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre, 1997

  Study makes use of extensive spatial datasets, not previously available, to provide a comprehensive assessment of the conservation status of biodiversity throughout the tropics. The extent to which potential habitats and closed moist forests are represented in protected areas is assessed.
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  Farmers’ knowledge of indigenous tree cultivation around Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park

  Latam-econ, 1998

  Article presents the results of a study carried out around Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park (Uganda), where a project had been started to cultivate indigenous trees. It assesses the local knowledge pertaining to the cultivation of these trees, as well as constraints on indigenous tree cultivation.
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  Cloud Forests in the Humid Tropics: A Bibliographic Review

  United Nations University, 1987

  Study has the following principal objectives: a) provide a detailed description of the state of knowledge of cloud forests in the humid tropics; considering and evaluating all related disciplines b) provide a complete bibliography on the topic, including all relevant references c) point out the limits and gaps in present knowledge d) propose efforts to broaden and strengthen the current state of k
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  Financing Forest Investments in Latin America: The Issue of Incentives

  1998

  Argues that, while the most effective vehicles for obtaining significant levels of forest investment are probably macro-economic, political, and institutional reforms that create a better climate for private sector investment, there is still a role to be played by financial incentives for forest investment and conservation because forestation programs may provide important positive ecological and
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  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.
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  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.
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  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.
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  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.
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  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.
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  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.

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