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  The social impacts of payments for environmental services in Costa Rica

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2003

  This paper analyses the social effects of the Payment for Environmental Services (PES) scheme within the Virilla watershed in Costa Rica. This is a programme where forest and plantation owners are financially and legally acknowledged for the environmental services that their forests provide to the community.
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  Nepal: breaking new ground: leasehold forestry in Nepal: hills leasehold forestry and forage development project

  Office of Evaluation and Studies, IFAD, 2003

  This document presents the results of an evaluation of an IFAD project aimed at preventing land degradation in Nepal. The project is based on leasehold forestry, an innovative approach introduced by IFAD in the early 1990s. It works by providing forty-year leases to groups of households and giving them user rights over plots of degraded forest land.
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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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  Farm-level timber production: orienting farmers towards the market

  Unasylva, FAO, 2003

  This article explores the potential of farm-level timber production, specifically in non-contracted or open-market situations where farmers produce timber as one component (segregated or integrated) of their farm enterprise and search for markets in an ad hoc manner.
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  Transforming roles but not reality? Private sector and community involvement in tourism and forestry development on the Wild Coast, South Africa

  Environment Team, IDS Sussex, 2003

  This paper reviews the changing roles of private sector and local residents in tourism and forestry development, looking both at what is envisaged in policies and plans, and what is emerging, taking the Wild Coast, South Africa as a case study.Main findings include:policy attention is focusing on wilderness, tourism, and forestry assets as opportunities for investment led economic growt
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  The cloud forest agenda report

  UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre, 2004

  The report provides global maps of cloud forests, alongside information on their biodiversity and watershed importance, a regional analysis of the threats to cloud forests and discussion on cloud forest conservation and livelihoods.
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  Biological diversity and tropical forestry analysis [Morocco]

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2002

  This report details the assessments of tropical forestry and biological diversity in Morocco. A desk based study, it includes information on the government of Morocco actions and support by USAID and other donors to the conservation of tropical forests and biological diversity.Main findings include:forests are generally in a mediocre and deteriorating condition.
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  Biological diversity and tropical forestry analysis [Pakistan]

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2003

  This short report details the assessment of tropical forestry and biological diversity Pakistan.
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  Capitalizing on conflict: how logging and mining contribute to environmental destruction in Burma

  EarthRights International, 2003

  This paper presents information illustrating how trade in timber, gems, and gold is financing violent conflict, including widespread and gross human rights abuses, in Burma.
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  Linkages between poverty alleviation and environment: evidence and policy implications from a northern mountainous province, Vietnam

  Mekonginfo, 2003

  This paper presents the findings of a research study aimed at providing a better understanding of the relationships between poverty and environment in 75 communes of Son La, Northwestern Vietnam, focusing on the economic transformation process that took place from 1989 to 2000.The study uses data on poverty, proxied by income and number of assets controlled by the poor; the environment, instrum

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