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    Soybean technology and the loss of natural vegetation in Brazil and Bolivia

    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2001
    Bolivia, Brazil
    Land, Climate Change & Environment
    Forest Tenure
    deforestation

    This paper looks at the impact of the introduction of new soybean technologies on the clearing of natural vegetation (forest and savanna) in southern Brazil, the Brazilian Cerrado, and Santa Cruz, Bolivia. The paper looks at how technological change interacted with other government policies and examines general equilibrium effects on product and labor markets as well as the direct on-farm effects. In southern Brazil new technologies made large-scale mechanized soybean production more profitable.

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    Ecuador goes bananas: incremental technological change and forest loss

    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2001
    Ecuador
    Land, Climate Change & Environment
    Forest Tenure
    deforestation
    land use

    What policy lessons derive from the half-century of banana expansion in the coastal region? For that whole period bananas had a catalytic role in promoting coastal deforestation. At first, this was mostly through direct banana frontier expansion. Later the gradual settlement effects proved key. Modest credit subsidies, the large-scale construction and improvement of roads and ports, and a devalued exchange rate were probably the most important policies that contributed to the expansion of banana production, though they varied in importance during the different periods.

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    Community-based water law and water resource management reform in developing countries

    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2007
    Africa, Central America, Asia, South America
    water rights
    land tenure

    The lack of sufficient access to clean water is a common problem faced by communities, efforts to alleviate poverty and gender inequality and improve economic growth in developing countries. While reforms have been implemented to manage water resources, these have taken little notice of how people use and manage their water and have had limited effect at the ground level. On the other hand, regulations developed within communities are livelihood-oriented and provide incentives for collective action but they can also be hierarchal, enforcing power and gender inequalities.

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