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Despite the importance of tropical moist forests for conserving biodiversity and storing carbon, forests continue to fall, because the private benefits of clearing land for agriculture far outweigh tangible economic gains from retaining forests.
The Asian financial crisis led to a major devaluation of the Indonesian exchange rate, macro instability, and the need for a “structural adjustment” program.
Abstract
This report identifies the links among economic growth, poverty alleviation, and natural resource degradation in Brazil.
This report identifies the links among economic growth, poverty alleviation, and natural resource degradation in Brazil.
The rapid expansion of commodity agriculture in tropical forest landscapes is a key driver of deforestation.
The purpose of the work presented in this report is to demonstrate that policymakers have tools at their disposal that provide significant help in the evaluation of trade-offs, opportunities, and repercussions of the policies under consideration.
"The Lore Lindu region in Indonesia—as in many forest frontier areas in Southeast Asia—has experienced rapid deforestation due to agricultural expansion in the uplands, at the forest margins.
Existing approaches and methodologies that investigate effects of land degradation on food security vary greatly.
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