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The Amazon Forest Preservation by Clarifying Property Rights and Potential Conflicts: How Experiments Using Fit-for-Purpose Can Help

Volume 10 Issue 2

Peer-reviewed publication
February, 2021
Brazil, United States of America
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land Conflicts
Land in post-conflict settings
Land, Climate Change & Environment
conflicts
deforestation
property
property rights
The burning and the deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon forest, which has been recently highlighted by the international press and occurs mostly on public or undesignated land, calls for an in-depth examination. This has traditionally been the main way to grab land, speculate, and simultaneously prove ownership by its occupation. The absence of mapping, registration, and an effective regulation of land property in Brazil, particularly in the Amazon, plays an important role in its deforestation.
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Property-level direct and indirect deforestation for soybean production in the Amazon region of Mato Grosso, Brazil

Land Use Policy Volume 78

Peer-reviewed publication
November, 2018
Brazil, United States of America
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Land Conflicts
Land, Climate Change & Environment
deforestation
displacement
land use
land use change
property
research
Brazil’s Soy Moratorium solidified the world’s largest traders’ commitment to stop soybean purchases from production areas deforested after July 2006. The aim was to remove deforestation from the soybean supply-chain and halt one of the main drivers of forest loss in the Amazon biome. In this study, we investigated changes in deforestation at the property-level for the period 2004 to 2014.
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Mapping properties to monitor forests: Landholder response to a large environmental registration program in the Brazilian Amazon

Land Use Policy Volume 57

Peer-reviewed publication
November, 2016
Global
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land, Climate Change & Environment
deforestation
environment
land tenure
land tenure systems
land use
research
Across the tropics, development banks and conservation donors are investing millions in property mapping and registration projects to improve accountability for deforestation. An evaluation of the effectiveness and accuracy of existing environmental registries is crucial to assure the success of future efforts. This study presents an evaluation of deforestation and registration behavior in response to one of the largest of these property registration programs to date — the Rural Environmental Registry (CAR) in the Amazonian state of Pará.
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Drivers of Fire Anomalies in the Brazilian Amazon: Lessons Learned from the 2019 Fire Crisis

Volume 9 Issue 12

Peer-reviewed publication
December, 2020
Israel
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land, Climate Change & Environment
deforestation
land tenure
land use change
The 2019 fire crisis in Amazonia dominated global news and triggered fundamental questions about the possible causes behind it. Here we performed an in-depth investigation of the drivers of active fire anomalies in the Brazilian Amazon biome. We assessed a 2003–2019 time-series of active fires, deforestation, and water deficit and evaluated potential drivers of active fire occurrence in 2019, at the biome-scale, state level, and local level. Our results revealed abnormally high monthly fire counts in 2019 for the states of Acre, Amazonas, and Roraima.
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Solving Brazil's land use puzzle: Increasing production and slowing Amazon deforestation

Peer-reviewed publication
February, 2020
Brazil
Land & Investments
Land, Climate Change & Environment
deforestation
agriculture
sustainable land management
sustainable land use
land economics
land grabbing
land tenure
Brazil has become an agricultural powerhouse, producing roughly 30 % of the world’s soy and 15 % of its beef by 2013 – yet historically much of that growth has come at the expense of its native ecosystems. Since 1985, pastures and croplands have replaced nearly 65 Mha of forests and savannas in the legal Amazon. A growing body of work suggests that this paradigm of horizontal expansion of agriculture over ecosystems is outdated and brings negative social and environmental outcomes.
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Processes of Forest Cover Change since 1958 in the Coffee-Producing Areas of Southwest Ethiopia

Volume 9 Issue 8

Peer-reviewed publication
August, 2020
Ethiopia
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
deforestation
migration
We investigated the spatial relations of ecological and social processes to point at how state policies, population density, migration dynamics, topography, and socio-economic values of ‘forest coffee’ together shaped forest cover changes since 1958 in southwest Ethiopia. We used data from aerial photos, Landsat images, digital elevation models, participatory field mapping, interviews, and population censuses.
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Land markets, Property rights, and Deforestation: Insights from Indonesia

Peer-reviewed publication
November, 2017
Indonesia
Forest Tenure
Land & Investments
customary law
deforestation
forest land
land markets
land rights
customary land rights
customary tenure
property
property rights
We examine the emergence of land markets and their effects on forest land appropriation by farm households in Jambi Province, Sumatra, using micro-level data covering land use and land transactions for a period of more than 20 years (1992–2015). Based on a theoretical model of land acquisition by a heterogeneous farming population, different hypotheses are developed and empirically tested. Farm households involved in forest land appropriation differ from those involved in land market purchases in terms of migration status and other socioeconomic characteristics.
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Contested aquaculture development in the protected mangrove forests of the Kapuas estuary, West Kalimantan

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2014
Indonesia
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Corruption
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
coastal areas
community land rights
concession (land)
conflict of interest
corruption
deforestation
development
displacement
dispossession
environment
expropriation
fisheries
forest conservation
forest land
green belts
land access
land acquisitions
land clearing
land conflicts
land dispute
land grabbing
land tenure
land transactions
local communities
protected areas
Indonesia comprises more mangroves than any other country, but also exhibits some of the highest mangrove loss rates worldwide. Most of these mangrove losses are caused by aquaculture development. Monetary valuation of the numerous ecosystem services of mangroves may contribute to their conservation.
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Eroding battlefields: Land degradation in Java reconsidered

Peer-reviewed publication
September, 2014
Indonesia
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land Conflicts
Land in post-conflict settings
Land, Climate Change & Environment
community land rights
conflict of interest
deforestation
displacement
dispossession
encroachment
environment
expropriation
forest conservation
forest land
forestry
land access
land clearing
land conflicts
land cover
land degradation
land dispute
land ownership
land rights
land tenure
land use
state forests
state property
territory
Land degradation has been a major political issue in Java for decades. Its causes have generally been framed by narratives focussing on farmers’ unsustainable cultivation practices. This paper causally links land degradation with struggles over natural resources in Central Java. It presents a case study that was part of a research project combining remote sensing and political ecology to explore land use/cover change and its drivers in the catchment of the Segara Anakan lagoon.
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Balancing agricultural development and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

Peer-reviewed publication
Reports & Research
December, 2002
South America, Brazil
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land degradation
poverty
land tenure
land tenure systems
deforestation
land valuation
natural resources management
Since the 1970s, federal policies promoting migration and encouraging agricultural development of large farms, logging, and ranching have led to the deforestation of vast areas of the Amazon rainforest.Though these policies have largely been replaced, deforestation continues. What effects do current macroeconomic and regional policies and events have on deforestation and on the well-being of settlers on the agricultural frontier?