Forests are ubiquitous in the Democratic Republic of Congo; they touch the cultural and economic life of most of the population and have enormous global environmental significance. After years of conflicts and mismanagement, reconstruction is key to improving living conditions and consolidating p...
Debroux, L.
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Hart, T.
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Kaimowitz, D.
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Karsenty, A.
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Topa, G.
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[La foret en Republique Democratique du Congo post-conflict: analyse d'un agenda prioritaire]
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La foret en Republique Democratique du Congo post-conflict: analyse d'un agenda prioritaire
Recent decentralization and forestry laws in Bolivia give municipal governments a strong role in forest management. This article analyzes the impact of those laws on local government activities related to logging, protected areas, indigenous territories, and land-use planning. It con-cludes that ...
Kaimowitz, D.
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Vallejos, C.
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Pacheco, P.
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Balanza, P.P.
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López, R.
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[Municipal governments and forest management in lowland Bolivia]
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Municipal governments and forest management in lowland Bolivia
Datos recientes muestran que la destrucción de los bosques primarios ha estado acompañada por la expansión de los bosques secundarios. Los estudios también muestran que los bosques secundarios son capaces de proporcionar algunos de los servicios económicos y ecológicos de los bosques primarios. E...
Smith, J.
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Sabogal C.
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Jong, W. de
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Kaimowitz, D.
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[Bosque secundarios como recurso para el desarrollo rural y la conservación en los trópicos de América Latina = Secondary forests resource for the rural development and the environmental conservation in the tropics of Latin America]
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Bosque secundarios como recurso para el desarrollo rural y la conservación en los trópicos de América Latina = Secondary forests resource for the rural development and the environmental conservation in the tropics of Latin America
This chapter reviews Central America's experience with regional collaborative policy research efforts focusing on rural issues, with particular emphasis on natural resources issues. It first presents a historical description of these efforts. Regional rural policy research began with the institut...
Kaimowitz, D.
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Murrar, A.
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[Resena historica de la investigacion sobre politicas en Centro America]
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Resena historica de la investigacion sobre politicas en Centro America
Approximately 25 millon people live in the main forested regions of Latin America. The forestry sector there directly provides two or three million jobs and perhaps another three or four million people work in related activities. Many poor households use fuelwood, hunt wild animals, and benefit f...
Community based forestry has the potential to contribute much more to achieving sustainable development and poverty reduction than is the case today. This paper describes and analyzes these potentials and demonstrates their feasibility with real world cases of community forest businesses and inno...
Scherr, Sara J.
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White, A.
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Kaimowitz, D.
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[A new agenda for forest conservation and poverty alleviation: making markets work for low-income producers]
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A new agenda for forest conservation and poverty alleviation: making markets work for low-income producers
Forests are ubiquitous in the Democratic Republic of Congo; they touch the cultural and economic life of most of the population and have enormous global environmental significance. After years of conflicts and mismanagement, reconstruction is key to improving living conditions and consolidating p...
Debroux, L.
,
Hart, T.
,
Kaimowitz, D.
,
Karsenty, A.
,
Topa, G.
,
[Forests in post-conflict Democratic Republic of Congo: analysis of a priority agenda]
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Forests in post-conflict Democratic Republic of Congo: analysis of a priority agenda