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  1. Library Resource
    Shifting Cultivation in Bangladesh, Bhutan, and Nepal
    Reports & Research
    July, 2015
    Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal

    Shifting cultivation is a dominant form of farming in the eastern Himalayas, practised by a diverse group of indigenous people from the most marginalized social and economic groups. The survival of these indigenous people and the survival of their forests are inextricably linked. However, policy makers and natural resource managers perceive shifting cultivation to be wasteful, destructive to forests, and unsustainable.

  2. Library Resource
    Regulations
    July, 2015
    Czech Republic

    This Government Regulation lays down, in accordance with European Union legislation, conditions of subsidies for afforestation of agricultural land. Subsidies are granted under the following measures: (a) establishment of forest stands; (b) care of forests for five calendar years starting in the year following the year when the forest was established; (c) cessation of agricultural production on wooded land for a period of ten calendar years starting in the year following the year when the forest was established.

  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    August, 2015
    Mozambique

    No mundo e em África, o agronegócio internacional assume novas dimensões nos últimos anos. A procura de extensas áreas no estrangeiro para a produção em grandes plantações de commodities, associada à crescente internacionalização do capital agrário e financeiro em programas bi ou multilaterais é uma das manifestações desse fenómeno.

  4. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    July, 2015

    Land abandonment and the subsequent re-forestation are important drivers behind the loss of ecosystem services in mountain regions. Agent-based models can help to identify global change impacts on farmland abandonment and can test policy and management options to counteract this development. Realigning the representation of human decision making with time scales of ecological processes such as reforestation presents a major challenge in this context.

  5. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    July, 2015

    The north-eastern escarpment of Madagascar harbours the island’s last remaining large-scale humid forest massifs surrounded by a small-scale agricultural mosaic. There is high deforestation, commonly thought to be caused by shifting cultivation practiced by local land users to produce upland rice. However, little is known about the dynamics between forest and shifting cultivation systems at a regional level.

  6. Library Resource
    July, 2015

    This issue of Handshake focuses on
    natural resource PPPs that are making a difference. In
    Cartagena, Colombia, a hybrid public-private agency is
    profiled that has standardized water service to residents
    while restoring the coast, and in the process, contributed
    to political stabilization. Around Africas Lake Victoria, an
    environmental management initiative with the potential to
    reduce the pollution and resource footprint of industrial

  7. Library Resource
    July, 2015

    This paper examines whether cooperative
    behavior by respondents measured as contributions in a
    one-shot public goods game correlates with reported
    pro-forest collective action behaviors. All the outcomes
    analyzed are costly in terms of time, land, or money. The
    study finds significant evidence that more cooperative
    individuals (or those who believe their group members will
    cooperate) engage in collective action behaviors that

  8. Library Resource
    Community Managed Forest Groups and Preferences for REDD+ Contract Attributes cover image
    Reports & Research
    July, 2015
    Global

    A significant portion of the world’s
    forests that are eligible for Reducing Emission from
    Deforestation and Forest Degradation, known as REDD ,
    payments are community managed forests. However, there is
    little knowledge about preferences of households living in
    community managed forests for REDD contracts, or the
    opportunity costs of accepting REDD contracts for these
    communities. This paper uses a choice experiment survey of

  9. Library Resource
    July, 2015

    This paper estimate the effects of
    collective action in Nepal’s community forests on four
    ecological measures of forest quality. Forest user group
    collective action is identified through membership in the
    Nepal Community Forestry Programme, pending membership in
    the program, and existence of a forest user group whose
    leaders can identify the year the group was formed. This
    last, broad category is important, because many community

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