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  The IMF funding deforestation: how International Monetary Fund loans and policies are responsible for global forest loss

  American Lands Alliance, 2001

  Report which alleges that International Monetary Fund (IMF) loans and policies have caused extensive deforestation in each of the 15 countries of Africa, Latin America, and Asia studied.This forest loss, the author claims, has occurred both directly and indirectly through:the IMF's promotion of foreign investment in natural resource sectorsausterity measures that cut spending on en
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  From supervising 'subjects' to supporting 'citizens': recent developments in community forestry in Asia and Africa

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2002

  Overview of the development of community forestry management techniques which examines their positive impact on local livlihoods and makes an assessment of future challenges.The report examines the rationale behind community forestry and stresses the case by case approach as central to its success.
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  Devolution and community-based natural resource management: creating space for local people to participate and benefit?

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2002

  This paper draws together evidence from a number of studies on the impacts of natural resource devolution policies in several Asian and southern African countries from the perspective of local people. Devolution outcomes are assessed in terms of who has greater benefits and decision-making authority.
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  Forest biological diversity: recommendations to the sixth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP6)

  World Conservation Union, 2002

  IUCN document which calls on the Conference of Parties (COP) to move from a research orientated work programme on forest biological diversity towards a more action orientated programme.
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  Vegetation Survey and Habitat Assessment of the Tesso Nilo Forest Complex

  WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2001

  The current rate of land conversion suggests that virtually all remaining lowland forests in Sumatra will disappear by the year 2004. WWF's Asian Rhino and Elephant Action Strategy (AREAS) project is currently exploring ways of achieving an equitable balance between conservation and exploitation.
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  Priority areas for establishing national forests in the Brazilian Amazon

  Conservation Ecology [journal], 2002

  Article which presents a method for optimally locating national forest areas that incorporates information on existing protected areas, current vegetation cover, areas of human occupation, and timber stocks.
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  Forests and the neoliberal economy: lessons from Indonesia and beyond: conference proceedings

  WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2001

  The conference consisted of two complementary sessions. The first session highlighted the results of the CIFOR/WWF-MPO research detailing the impacts of IMF/World Bank policy interventions on the forest and oil palm sectors of Indonesia. Next, the IMF presented their perspective on the challenges of developing policies to help re-float the Indonesian economy.
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  What drives tropical deforestation?: a meta-analysis of proximate and underlying causes of deforestation based on subnational case study evidence

  Land Use and Land Cover Change Project, 2001

  Using the framework of the Land Use and Cover Change (LUCC) Science/Research Plan this study takes 152 studies of deforestation in different regions of varying size from around the tropics and analyses them to assess how important different causes of deforestation really are.
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  Making markets work for forest communities

  Future Harvest, 2002

  Policy briefing which argues that there is an inextricable link between the futures of the world’s forests and millions of the world’s poorest people and lays out strategies to improve the contributions of forest markets to local livelihoods.The report describes several opportunities for local forest producers:Developing countries' domestic wood demand is growing more rapidly than that
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  The hidden side of group behaviour: a gender analysis of community forestry groups

  Queen Elizabeth House Library, University of Oxford, 2001

  Communities managing common pool resources, such as forests, constitute a significant example of group functioning.

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