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  Alternatives to slash-and-burn

  Alternatives to Slash-and-Burn Programme, Kenya, 2003

  This Policy Brief is the first in the series and introduces ASB and the issues it deals with.
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  Caffeine and conservation

  SciDev.Net, 2003

  Overproduction of coffee and low coffee prices have resulted in a global crisis affecting the people and biodiversity of many tropical countries. The authors, from the Wildlife Conservation Society in Indonesia, describe expanding production of low-quality robusta coffee, which contributes to low prices and lowland deforestation, but is not improving the livelihood of local farmers.
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  Deforestation without limits: How the Cambodian government failed to tackle the untouchables

  Global Witness, 2002

  This report examines evidence of illegal logging that Global Witness has submitted to the Royal Government of Cambodia as part of the Forest Crimes Monitoring and Reporting Project and reviews the action and inaction of the government in each of the cases
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  Balancing agricultural development and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2002

  Using a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model this report identifies the links among economic growth, poverty alleviation, and natural resource degradation in Brazil.
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  Agricultural intensification by smallholders in the Western Brazilian Amazon: from deforestation to sustainable land use

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2002

  Focusing on smallholders’ decision making, this report presents trade-offs among the key development objectives - environmental sustainability, economic growth, and poverty alleviation - affecting forest use in two settlements in the western Brazilian Amazon.
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  Grey Literature Library - Social Forestry Collection

  Policy and Environment Programme, ODI, 2000

  Grey literature collection includes documents from India over the last twenty years, the collection traces the process of social forestry, which aimed to satisfy local needs through fuelwood plantations and to divert pressure from natural forest through the participation of private framers and communities.The papers included are as follows:Village-level management of common property
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  The ecology of forest fires

  Mekonginfo, 2001

  Until recently it was assumed that the high levels of moisture in ground levels of tropical forests made fire impossible. Fire has now occurred, however, in both primary and secondary tropical forests.
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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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  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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