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Improving Farming Practices for Sustainable Soil Use in the Humid Tropics and Rainforest Ecosystem Health

Sustainability

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2016
Brazil
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
Forest Tenure
Urban Tenure
land degradation
Unsustainable farming practices such as shifting cultivation and slash-and-burn agriculture in the humid tropics threaten the preservation of the rainforest and the health of the local and global environment. In weathered soils prone to cohesion in humid tropic due to low Fe and carbon content and the enormous amounts of P that can be adsorbed, sustainable soil use is heavily dependent on the availability and efficient use of nutrients.
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Tenure Security and Land Appropriation under Changing Environmental Governance in Lowland Bolivia and Pará

Forests

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2015
Brazil
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
land governance
Appropriation of public lands associated with agricultural frontier expansion is a longstanding occurrence in the Amazon that has resulted in a highly skewed land-tenure structure in spite of recent state efforts to recognize tenure rights of indigenous people and smallholders living in or nearby forests. Growing concerns to reduce environmental impacts from agricultural development have motivated state governments to place greater attention on sustainable land management and forest conservation.
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Brazil Land Governance Assessment

Reports & Research
October, 2015
Brazil, United States of America
assessment
land
land governance
Public Sector Management and Reform Public Sector Development Rural Development - Common Property Resource Development Environment Public Sector Development Environment - Environmental Economics & Policies
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Land Reform and Landholdings in Brazil

Reports & Research
November, 2015
Brazil, Norway, United States of America
land
land reform
land reform, land distribution, wealth distribution
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Ethanol expansion and indirect land use change in Brazil

Reports & Research
April, 2015
Brazil, United States of America
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land
land use
land use change
In this paper we analyze the Indirect Land Use Change (ILUC) effects of ethanol production expansion in Brazil through the use of an inter-regional, bottom-up, dynamic general equilibrium model calibrated with the 2005 Brazilian I-O table. A new methodology to deal with ILUC effects is developed, using a transition matrix of land uses calibrated with Agricultural Censuses data. Agriculture and land use are modeled separately in each of 15 Brazilian regions with different agricultural mix.
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Land Tenure Insecurity and Economic Growth in Brazil

Reports & Research
November, 2015
Brazil, Norway, United States of America
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
Land Conflicts
land
land tenure
tenure insecurity
We examine the consequences of land tenure insecurity on economic growth in Brazil. We use an overlapping generations model with two sectors: an agricultural sector and a manufacturing sector. Land is specific to the agricultural sector and capital goods are specific to the manufacturing sector. Moreover land is a fixed production factor. Saving takes the form of either land or capital goods purchases, and saving composition depends on transaction costs generated by land tenure insecurity.
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Urban Land Markets and Urban Land Development: an Examination of Three Brazilian Cities: Brasília, Curitiba and Recife

Reports & Research
April, 2015
Brazil
Land & Investments
Urban Tenure
development
land
land markets
urban land
This paper synthesizes and extends the results of urban land market studies carried out in three Brazilian cities – Brasília, Curitiba and Recife. The purpose of the studies is to empirically assess the performance of urban land markets in different cities and to gauge the feasibility of applying the Land Market Assessment methodology in Brazil.
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Legal Instruments to implement the objective “Land Degradation Neutral World” in International Law

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2015
Brazil, United States of America, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden, Croatia, Greece, Italy, Malta, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Netherlands
Land Degradation & Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land-use planning
land degradation
The protection of fertile soils is a precondition for sustainable development. In the final document of the conference of the United Nations on sustainable development in June 2012 in Rio de Janeiro (Rio+20 Conference), the international community thus agreed to strive for a “land degradation neutral world”. The legal study by Ecologic Institute, Berlin, firstly scrutinizes some national legislation (Germany/EU, USA and Brazil) in order to identify legal instruments which are suitable for the implementation of the goal of a “land degradation neutral world”.
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An ecoHealth approach : prediction and prevention of emerging infectious diseases from wildlife : final technical report

Reports & Research
March, 2015
Brazil, South America
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
deforestation
land use change
Approximately 20% of novel emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) and 50% of emerging and re-emerging zoonotic diseases have been attributed to land-use change. It is a clear threat to global biodiversity and ecosystem services and a key driver of EIDs. The project investigates the mechanisms underlying disease emergence by assessing the impacts of land-use change, measured as forest fragmentation, on viral diversity and bat host assemblages.
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Doing Business Economy Profile 2016

Brazil

Reports & Research
January, 2016
Latin America and the Caribbean, South America, Brazil
Land, Climate Change & Environment
environment
land
property
property rights
Doing Business sheds light on how easy or difficult it is for a local entrepreneur to open and run a small to medium-size business when complying with relevant regulations. It measures and tracks changes in regulations affecting 11 areas in the life cycle of a business: starting a business, dealing with construction permits, getting electricity, registering property, getting credit, protecting minority investors, paying taxes, trading across borders, enforcing contracts, resolving insolvency and labor market regulation.