The Amazon is the largest tropical forest area on earth, and has been undergoing rapid deforestation for the last four decades. In the Brazilian Amazon, large-scale pasture for cattle ranching and soybean production are the main land uses, leading to a yearly deforestation rate of 0.5%. These con...
Mertens, B.
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Poccard-Chapuis, R.
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Piketty, M.G.
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Lacques, A.E.
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Venturieri, A.
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[Crossing spatial analyses and livestock economics to understand deforestation processes in the Brazilian Amazon: the case of Sao Felix do Xingu in South Para]
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Crossing spatial analyses and livestock economics to understand deforestation processes in the Brazilian Amazon: the case of Sao Felix do Xingu in South Para
This book presents an empirical analysis of the development processes and the economic of Brazilian Amazon deforestation using a large data set of ecological and economic variables. It presents summary statistics and analyse trends for a number of important variables as well as developing econome...
Andersen, L.E.
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Granger, C.W.J.
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Reis, E.J.
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Weinhold, D.
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Wunder, Sven
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[The dynamic of deforestation and economic growth in the Brazilian Amazon]
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The dynamic of deforestation and economic growth in the Brazilian Amazon
Kizito, Fred
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Williams, Timothy O.
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McCartney, Matthew P.
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Erkossa, Teklu
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[Green and blue water dimensions of foreign direct investment in biofuel and food production in West Africa: the case of Ghana and Mali.]
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Green and blue water dimensions of foreign direct investment in biofuel and food production in West Africa: the case of Ghana and Mali.
The PREDICTS project—Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems (www.predicts.org.uk)—has collated from published studies a large, reasonably representative database of comparable samples of biodiversity from multiple sites that differ in the nature or intensity ...
Hudson, L.N.
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Newbold, T.
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Contu, S.
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Hill, S.L.L.
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Lysenko, I.
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Palma, A. de
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Louhaichi, Mounir
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[The database of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems) project]
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The database of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems) project
Ayarza, Miguel Angel
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Amézquita Collazos, Edgar
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Rao, Idupulapati M.
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Barrios, Edmundo
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Rondón, Marco Antonio
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Rubiano Sanabria, Yolanda
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Quintero, Marcela
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[Advances in improving agricultural profitability and overcoming land degradation in savanna and hillside agroecosystems of tropical America]
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Advances in improving agricultural profitability and overcoming land degradation in savanna and hillside agroecosystems of tropical America
Mapani, B.
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Magole, L.
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Makurira, H.
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Mazvimavi, D.
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Meck, M.
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Mul, Marloes L.
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[Managing ground and surface water resources using innovative methods in rural and urban areas of Sub-Saharan Africa]
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Managing ground and surface water resources using innovative methods in rural and urban areas of Sub-Saharan Africa
A diagnostic survey was carried out to assess the available feed resources in Welayta Awraja (district) around Sodo area. The quantity of different feed resources available in the Awraja was estimated, based on crop produciton and land use information. Chemical composition and in vitro DM digesti...
Prior to 1975, agriculture in Ethiopia was organized largely under feudalistic/imperial arrangements, The Ethiopian military government (1974-1991) issued the Land Reform Proclamation in 1975 which nationalized and redistributed most of the agricultural land among rural households. Land redistrib...
Omiti, J.M.
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Parton, K.A.
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Ehui, Simeon K.
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Sinden, J.A.
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[Some policy implications of the resurfacing of rural factor markets following agrarian de-collectivization in Ethiopia]
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Some policy implications of the resurfacing of rural factor markets following agrarian de-collectivization in Ethiopia
Center for International Forestry Research
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[Oil, macroeconomics and forests: lessons for Central Africa]
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Oil, macroeconomics and forests: lessons for Central Africa
Since 1975, agricultural land tenure arrangements in Ethiopia have changed from a feudal system, to a socialist model with semi-collectivist villages and, from 1991, to a small-holder system based on private (freehold) ownershiBy surveying a random sample of 94 households in the Ethiopian highlan...
Omiti, J.M.
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Parton, K.A.
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Sinden, J.A.
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Ehui, Simeon K.
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[Monitoring changes in land-use practices following agrarian de-collectivisation in Ethiopia]
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Monitoring changes in land-use practices following agrarian de-collectivisation in Ethiopia