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Cronkleton, P.Pacheco, P.[Changing policy trends in the emergence of Bolivia's Brazil nut sector]Changing policy trends in the emergence of Bolivia's Brazil nut sector

Community forestry is pursued as rural development strategy in many tropical forest regions worldwide. In Tropical America, rich experiences have been accumulated with community forestry support initiatives and this chapter summarizes published and the author’s hands on experiences. The chapter i...


Jong, W. deCornejo, C.Pacheco, P.Pokorny, B.Stoian, D.Sabogal, C.Louman, B.[Opportunities and challenges for community forestry: lessons from tropical America]Opportunities and challenges for community forestry: lessons from tropical America

Five dominant trends are occurring in tropical Latin America with implications for land use change: (1) rapid growth of agribusiness, (2) expansion and modernisation of traditional cattle ranching, (3) slow growth of small-scale agriculture, (4) logging in production forest frontiers and (5) resu...


Pacheco, P.Aguilar-Støen, M.Borner, J.Etter, A.Putzel, L.Vera-Diaz, M.D.C.[Actors and landscape changes in tropical Latin America: challenges for REDD+ design and implementation]Actors and landscape changes in tropical Latin America: challenges for REDD+ design and implementation

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.Vallejos, C.Pacheco, P.Balanza, P.P.López, R.[Municipal governments and forest management in lowland Bolivia]Municipal governments and forest management in lowland Bolivia
Pacheco, P.[El regimen forestal boliviano: una mirada retrospectiva a diez anos de su implementacion]El regimen forestal boliviano: una mirada retrospectiva a diez anos de su implementacion

The department of Santa Cruz in Bolivia makes part of the Amazon basin, and it embraces a large portion of the Bolivian lowland forest, with most of its area covered by semideciduous forest. The agricultural development, and hence deforestation in Santa Cruz, does not follow any similar path of o...


Pacheco, P.Mertens, B.[Land use change and agriculture development in Santa Cruz, Bolivia]Land use change and agriculture development in Santa Cruz, Bolivia
Autor: Pacheco, P.

This paper examines the interactions between state-led land reform, agrarian structures, and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. Land reform tends to promote land redistribution through regularization of smallholder land invasions of large-scale landholdings, and by redistribution of public la...


Pacheco, P.[Agrarian reform in the Brazilian Amazon: its implications for land distribution and deforestation]Agrarian reform in the Brazilian Amazon: its implications for land distribution and deforestation

This study adopts an institutional approach to analyze the way in which informal rules, in their interaction with formal rules, shape the use of forest resources by diverse types of smallholders and communities (i.e., indigenous people, agro-extractive and traditional communities) in Latin Americ...


Pacheco, P.Barry, D.M.Cronkleton, P.Larson, A.M.[El papel de las instituciones informales en el uso de los recursos forestales en América Latina]El papel de las instituciones informales en el uso de los recursos forestales en América Latina

This paper assesses the influence of forest policies on forestry development, and especially timber production, in Bolivia during three different periods of time. The first period began in the early 1970s when a conservative forest policy was adopted privileging commercial logging companies, and ...


Pacheco, P.Jong, W. deJohnson, J.[The evolution of the timber sector in lowland Bolivia: examining the influence of three disparate policy approaches]The evolution of the timber sector in lowland Bolivia: examining the influence of three disparate policy approaches

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