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A Whole-of-Government Approach to Reducing Tropical Deforestation [PDF]
Tropical forests provide critical global and local ecosystem services and habitat for many of the world’s plants and animals. Their loss threatens the sustainable economic growth and social stability of developing countries, and illegal deforestation ...
Morris, Daniel +2 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.Abstract This study examines producer participation choices considering a variety of potential benefits linked to state‐sponsored marketing programs, using a real choice dataset of farmers in Missouri. Multinomial logit models are employed to predict determinants of farmer enrollment in three tiers of the Missouri Grown local food marketing program ...
Lan Tran, Ye Su, Laura McCann
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The National Forest Programme of the Czech Republic: An introduction of the 1993–2010 development
Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 2011 Since the 1992 UNCED Conference in Rio de Janeiro, National Forest Programmes (NFPs) have been attracting a worldwide attention as a voluntary participatory-based policy instrument to support the sustainable forest management at the country level.
Marta Urbanová
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Forest Financing in Latin America: The Role of the Inter-American Development Bank [PDF]
This study includes an overview of financing and financial instruments for sustainable forestry and in particular the roles of the public and private sectors in financing.
Esa Puustajärvi +2 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.Abstract This study explores the rent price ratio in agricultural land markets, crucial for evaluating market efficiency, policy needs, and farmer decision‐making. Traditionally, the analyses faced challenges due to the absence of concurrent sale and rent data for the same land, potentially leading to biased results.
Marius Michels +4 more
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La gouvernance participative des forêts publiques : L’Ontario et le Québec, des chemins parallèles ?
Territoire en Mouvement, 2011 Canadian provincial’s forest policies reflect the transition dynamic from a hierarchical governance to a "multilevel governance" (Pülzl and Rametsteiner, 2002), meaning that they open spaces to new actors.
Guy Chiasson +2 more
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Policy to Encourage Carbon Sequestration in Plantation Forests [PDF]
Carbon sequestration in plantation forests provides the main means by which New Zealand will meet its international climate change obligations in the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol (2008–2012).
Emma Brunton, Ralph Chapman, Suzi Kerr
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Africa's cultural and colonial heritage has profoundly segmented rice markets. Whereas in ancient centers of rice domestication, consumers maintained preferences for local rice consistent with their cultural heritage, preferences have shifted toward imported Asian rice in coastal areas around seaports, due to prior exposure to colonial import ...
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
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Trees, Forests and PeopleWater-related ecosystem services of forest land are essential for human well-being. Their provision is related to forest management practices that forest owners and managers apply. When these preferential management practices increase the operating costs,
Klára Báliková +5 more
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e-cadernos ces, 2017 Due to deforestation, there is a growing trend in India, that the Government has started planting eucalyptus and other varieties of trees under the afforestaion programme for their commercial value. This has caused the disappearance of traditional forest
Buddhadeb Chaudhuri, Chandreyee Roy
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