Forests play a significant role in the global carbon budget, and can help to mitigate climate change impacts. Tropical forests which experience high rates of deforestation and forest degradation are particularly important, as they are the most active in winter. Based on academic research into glo...
Djomo, A.N.
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Grant, J.A.
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Lucha, C.F.
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Gagoe, J.T.
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Fonton, N.H.
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Scott, N.
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Sonwa, D.J.
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[Forest governance and REDD+ in Central Africa: towards a participatory model to increase stakeholder involvement in carbon markets]
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Forest governance and REDD+ in Central Africa: towards a participatory model to increase stakeholder involvement in carbon markets
Forest conservation in human-dominated tropical landscapes ensures provision of major ecosystem services. However, conservation goals are threatened by growing demands for agricultural products. As the expansion of agricultural frontiers continues to exert increasing pressure on forest cover, it ...
Bourgoin, Clément
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Oszwald, Johan
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Bourgoin, Jeremy
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Gond, Valéry
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Blanc, Lilian
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Dessard, Hélène
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Phan, Trong Van
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Sist, Plinio
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Läderach, Peter
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Reymondin, Louis
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[Assessing the ecological vulnerability of forest landscape to agricultural frontier expansion in the Central Highlands of Vietnam]
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Assessing the ecological vulnerability of forest landscape to agricultural frontier expansion in the Central Highlands of Vietnam
The Amazon basin is the world’s largest rainforest and the most biologically diverse place on Earth. Despite the critical importance of this region, Amazon forests continue inexorably to be degraded and deforested for various reasons, mainly a consequence of agricultural expansio...
Blanco Gutiérrez, I.
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Manners, R.
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Varela Ortega, C.
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Tarquis, A.
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Martorano, L.G.
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Toledo, M.
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[Examining the sustainability and development challenge in agricultural-forest frontiers of the Amazon Basin through the eyes of locals]
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Examining the sustainability and development challenge in agricultural-forest frontiers of the Amazon Basin through the eyes of locals
Colombiaʼs agriculture, forestry and other land use sector accounts for nearly half of its total
greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The importance of smallholder deforestation is comparatively high
in relation to its regional counterparts, and livestock agriculture represents the largest driver of
p...
Landholm, David M.
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Pradhan, Prajal
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Wegmann, Peter
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Romero Sánchez, Miguel Antonio
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Suárez Salazar, Juan Carlos
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Kropp, Juergen P
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[Reducing deforestation and improving livestock productivity: greenhouse gas mitigation potential of silvopastoral systems in Caquetá.]
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Reducing deforestation and improving livestock productivity: greenhouse gas mitigation potential of silvopastoral systems in Caquetá.
Imbach, Pablo
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Manrow, M
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Barona, Elizabeth
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Barretto, A
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Hyman, Glenn
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Ciais, Philippe
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[Spatial and temporal contrasts in the distribution of crops and pastures across Amazonia: a new agricultural land-use dataset from census data since 1950]
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Spatial and temporal contrasts in the distribution of crops and pastures across Amazonia: a new agricultural land-use dataset from census data since 1950
Börner, J.
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Wunder, Sven
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Wertz-Kanounnikoff, S.
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Hyman, Glenn
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Nascimento, N
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[Forest law enforcement in the Brazilian Amazon: costs and income effects]
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Forest law enforcement in the Brazilian Amazon: costs and income effects
Land degradation is a great threat for the future and it requires great effort and resources to ameliorate. The major causes of land degradation in Ethiopia are the rapid population increase, severe soil loss, deforestation, low vegetative cover and unbalanced crop and livestock production. Inapp...
This article reports on findings from a research project, in more than 30 sites in 10 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America, aimed at analyzing cases where changes in formal tenure rights for forest-based communities had recently occurred or were in process. Though by far largest proportion...
Larson, A.M.
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Barry, D.M.
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Dahal, G.R.
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[New Rights for forest-based communities?: understanding processes of forest tenure reform]
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New Rights for forest-based communities?: understanding processes of forest tenure reform
Many of the services supplied by nature are externalities. Economic theory suggests that some form of subsidy or contracting between the beneficiaries and the providers could result in an optimal supply of environmental services. Moreover, if the poor own resources that give them a comparative ad...
Pattanayak, S.K.
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Wunder, Sven
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Ferraro, P.J.
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[Show me the money: do payments supply environmental services in developing countries?]
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Show me the money: do payments supply environmental services in developing countries?
Integrated agriculture and forestry land-use practices are critical in countries like Sudan, which faces accelerated deforestation, as they can make land-use and agricultural production systems more sustainable. The accelerated loss of forest vegetation is often perceived to result from increased...
Kalame, F.B.
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Luukkanen, O.
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Elsiddig, E.A.
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Glover, E.K.
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[Tree knowledge and livelihood activities in a changing environment: views from smallholder farmers in Kosti, Sudan]
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Tree knowledge and livelihood activities in a changing environment: views from smallholder farmers in Kosti, Sudan