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Land use was examined in three settlements Pedro Peixoto in Acre and Theobroma in Rondonia, Brazil, and Pucallpa, in Peru. Research aimed at characterizing the differences in land use after initial slash-and-burn, and presenting hypotheses to assess the feasibility of improved land uses. Settle...


Fujisaka, SamWhite, D.[Pasture or permanent crops after slash-and-burn cultivation? Land-use choice in three Amazon colonies]Pasture or permanent crops after slash-and-burn cultivation? Land-use choice in three Amazon colonies
Wollenberg, Eva K.[Methods for assessing the conservation and development of forest products: what we know and what we have yet to learn]Methods for assessing the conservation and development of forest products: what we know and what we have yet to learn

This paper examines poverty and deforestation in developing countries as linked problems and focuses on policies that can favour poverty alleviation in forested regions. The paper encompasses two elements: analysis of the spatial coincidence between poverty and forests, and proposed policy option...


Sunderlin, William D.Dewi, S.Puntodewo, A.[Poverty and forests: multi-country analysis of spatial association and proposed policy solutions]Poverty and forests: multi-country analysis of spatial association and proposed policy solutions

This bibliography for the Republic of Congo is a sequel to the one on Gabon. It comprises 312 annotated references on thematic areas: fauna, flora, vegetation, ecology, conservation, silviculture, forest inventory, forest management, forest policy and economy, non-timber forest products, etc.; an...


Dupuy, B.Loumeto, J.Amsallem, I.Gerard, C.Nasi, Robert[Gestion des ecosystemes forestiers denses d'Afrique tropicale humide: 2. Congo]Gestion des ecosystemes forestiers denses d'Afrique tropicale humide: 2. Congo

Income measures are increasingly used as an indicator of the well-being of forest villagers, their use of forest products, and even the value of a forest. The methods for estimating income are often underreported, however, and little analysis is available of the methods required to measure income...


Wollenberg, Eva K.[Methods for estimating forest income and their challenges]Methods for estimating forest income and their challenges
Phanbuh, S.Albano, A.Darlong, V.[Increasing benefits from forest: NERCORMP-IFAD'S forest based livelihoodinterventions in Meghalaya, India]Increasing benefits from forest: NERCORMP-IFAD'S forest based livelihoodinterventions in Meghalaya, India
Autor: Shanley, P.

Increased trade in non-timber forest products (NTFP) has been promoted as one possible means to slow tropical deforestation by increasing the economic value of intact forest. A market surcey of NTFP's occuring in the Capim River basin in eastern Amazonia, Brazil demonstrated that the realitty for...


Shanley, P.[The faint promise of a distant market: a survey of Belem's trade in non-timber forest products]The faint promise of a distant market: a survey of Belem's trade in non-timber forest products
Autor: Mutamba, M.

The Zimbabwe woodlands are an important part of the rural households' livelihood system as they meet requirements for food, energy, construction materials and cash. This study uses linear programming approaches to understand how households best allocate scarce resources in meeting their requireme...


Mutamba, M.[Impact of crop producer price changes on quantities of woodland products collected by communal households in Chivi, Zimbabwe]Impact of crop producer price changes on quantities of woodland products collected by communal households in Chivi, Zimbabwe

Extensive areas of the Congo Basin forest are allocated to timber concessionaires. These forests also harbour and support village populations, including indigenous Baka people, who depend on forest foods obtained directly from trees (fruits, oils and caterpillars). Most food-producing tree specie...


Tieguhong, J.C.Snook, L.K.Taedoumg, H.Maukonen, P.Tchatat, M.Loo, J.Tchingsabe, O.Noutcheu, R.Iponga, D.M.Kahindo, J.M.Muvatsi, P.Yobo, C.M.Tutu, S.Ngoye, A.[Beyond timber: balancing demands for tree resources between concessionaires and villagers]Beyond timber: balancing demands for tree resources between concessionaires and villagers

With increasing rates of forest depletion worldwide, it is increasingly being asked whether markets can play a role in mitigating the deleterious environmental and social impacts of forestry activities. The Forest Stewardship Council and others have proposed systems of ecological certification, w...


Kiker, C.F.Putz, F.E.[Ecological certification of forest products: economic challenges]Ecological certification of forest products: economic challenges

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