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  1. Library Resource

    Summary of Priority Policy Recommendations Drawn form World Bank Studies

    Training Resources & Tools
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    September, 2012
    Vietnam, Eastern Asia, Oceania

    Vietnam's rapid and sustained economic growth and poverty reduction in the last two decades benefitted from the policy and legal reforms embodied in the Land Laws of 1987, 1993 and 2003 and subsequent related legal acts. This note outlines reforms related to four main themes. The first relates to the needed reform for agriculture land use to create opportunity to enhance effectiveness of land use as well as to secure farmers' rights in land use. Prolonging the duration of agricultural land tenure would give land users greater incentives to invest and care for the land.

  2. Library Resource

    Forestry Sector Analysis

    Training Resources & Tools
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 2015
    Romania, Europe, Central Asia

    This report is about forests that provide a substantial contribution to mitigation in Romania by sequestering carbon, helping to counter carbon emissions from other sectors in the economy. Sustainable forest management is challenged by fragmented ownership and insufficient financial resources in particular. A summary of key existing analytic studies, and the construction of a marginal abatement cost curve for mitigation actions in the forestry sector, was the basis for identifying key adaptation and mitigation measures for Romania’s forests.

  3. Library Resource
    April, 2014
    Costa Rica

    Costa Rica's Program of Payments
    for Environmental Services (Pago de Servicios Ambientales,
    PSA) provides a unique opportunity to evaluate direct
    payments as a conservation policy tool. This paper reports
    evidence on how much more forest has been conserved in Costa
    Rica as a result of PSA contracts with landowners. Such
    evidence requires estimating a counterfactual outcome: how
    much forest would have been preserved if there had been no

  4. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    May, 2012
    Asia, Central Asia, Europe, Eastern Europe

    This study reviews how the integration of environmental concerns into agriculture and forestry is progressing in the countries of Southeastern Europe (SEE) and of Eastern Europe, Caucasus, and Central Asia (EECCA) since 2000 and assesses prospects for the future. The present report is a contribution to the environment for Europe process. At the Fifth Ministerial Conference in Kiev in 2003, participants decided to pay greater attention to the needs of the EECCA and adopted an environmental strategy for the sub-region.

  5. Library Resource
    June, 2012

    There are many causes, consequences, and
    connections of deforestation and forest poverty in the
    tropical world. This report specifically addresses the
    potential dilemma of trade-offs between poverty reduction
    and environmental protection. It seeks to improve the
    diagnosis of forest problems and facilitate the prescription
    and application of solutions by focusing on both the causes
    and consequences of forest conversion to agriculture and on

  6. Library Resource
    May, 2012

    This study is intended to be a
    systematic and practical guide to the basic features of
    modern forestry legislation. It identifies a range of issues
    that should be considered in assessing the adequacy of
    forest laws and presents options for addressing those issues
    in ways that may improve the effectiveness of law as a
    foundation for sustainable forest management. Part One
    locates forestry law within the wider legal framework,

  7. Library Resource
    January, 2014

    The European neighborhood and
    partnership instrument east countries forest law enforcement
    and second governance program will support the participating
    countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova,
    Russian Federation and Ukraine) in strengthening forest
    governance through improving implementation of relevant
    international processes, enhancing their forest policy,
    legislation and institutional capacity, and developing,

  8. Library Resource
    January, 2014
    Congo

    The Congo Basin represents 70 percent of
    the African continent's forest cover and constitutes a
    large portion of Africa's biodiversity. Agricultural
    development is a central lever to help people out of
    poverty, as well as a key driver of deforestation.
    Forest-friendly agricultural development is a challenge for
    the region. This report describes some ways forest-friendly
    agricultural development can materialize in the Congo Basin.

  9. Library Resource
    April, 2014
    Romania

    Romania relies on the European
    Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF) to achieve its
    commitments to the European Union (EU) 2020 targets. The use
    of the European Agriculture and Rural Development Fund
    (EARDF) requires that at least 30 percent of the budget
    allocated for rural development as part of the National
    Rural Development Plan (NRDP) be spent on the environment
    and addressing climate change. The forest sector rapid

  10. Library Resource
    April, 2014
    Tanzania

    This paper explains the major issues and
    lessons derived from the national forest management program
    and REDD+ initiatives in Tanzania. It finds that addressing
    the most important drivers of forest degradation and
    deforestation, in particular the country energy needs and
    landownership, is essential for success in reducing
    emissions regardless of the type of program implemented. It
    also finds that, through the national program, forest users

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