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  1. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2016
    Central America, South America

    Degraded lands—lands that have lost some degree of their natural productivity through human activity—account for over 20 percent of forest and agricultural lands in Latin America and the Caribbean. Some 300 million hectares of the region’s forests are considered degraded, and about 350 million hectares are now classified as deforested. The agriculture and forestry sectors are growing and exerting great pressure on natural areas. With the region expected to play an increasingly important role in global food security, this pressure will continue to ratchet up.

  2. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2007
    Kenya, Africa, Eastern Africa

    Nature’s Benefits in Kenya: An Atlas of Ecosystems and Human Well-Being integrates spatial data on poverty and the environment

    in Kenya, providing a new approach to examining the links between ecosystem services (the benefits derived from nature)

    and the poor. This publication focuses on the environmental resources

    most Kenyans rely on to earn their livelihoods, such as soil, water, forest,

    rangeland, livestock, and wildlife. The atlas overlays georeferenced

    statistical information on population and household expenditures with

  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2007
    Kenya, Africa, Eastern Africa

    This report provides a new approach to integrating spatial data on poverty and ecosystems in Kenya. It is endorsed by five permanent secretaries in Kenya and with a foreword by Wangari Maathai (recipient of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize). It provides a new approach to examining the links between ecosystem services (the benefits derived from nature) and the poor. Through a series of maps and analyses, the authors focus on the environmental resources most Kenyans rely on such as soil, water, forest, rangeland, livestock, and wildlife.

  4. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2003
    Cameroon

    Cameroon's 1994 Forestry law launched a new approach to natural resource management. The 1996 Constitution introduced decentralized authorities, whose role is to enable the economic, social and cultural development of its peoples. The new legal framework for environmental policy and overhaul of the Constitution show the Government's will to decentralize and to improve forest resources management. At the same time, decentralization management might be inappropriate in Cameroon.

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