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  1. Library Resource
    December, 2015
    Madagascar

    The major role tropical forests play in
    biodiversity and climate change has led the world to search
    for effective ways to slow down deforestation. Community
    forest management (CFM) is an example of the broader concept
    of community-based natural resources management (CBNRM). As
    part of the decentralization policy in many countries,
    mainly in Africa and Asia, CFM was expected to promote: (i)
    a more effective stewardship of the resources by involving

  2. Library Resource
    November, 2015
    Turkey

    The country’s forest areas occupy 21.7
    million ha (approximately 27.6 percent of its total surface
    area), and are inhabited by close to 10 percent of its total
    population. The forest sector generates a variety of timber
    and non-timber products and eco-services. The Turkish
    government has put great effort into reforestation and
    forest management, increasing the total area of forests. In
    their tenth national development plan (2014-2018), the

  3. Library Resource
    January, 2015
    Moldova

    This forest policy note (FPN) offers
    an outside view of the Moldovan forestry sector, provides
    some strategic guidance to help define sector goals, and
    identifies opportunities for consideration in the continued
    development of the sector and for the implementation of the
    Moldova and World Bank (WB) country partnership strategy
    (CPS). This study is based on a number of short visits to
    Moldova and on a number of background studies undertaken

  4. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 2016
    Brazil

    Os assentamentos de reforma agrária têm assumido um papel de destaque em relação ao desmatamento da Amazônia nos últimos cinco anos. Atualmente cerca de 8% do território dos estados amazônicos (41,8 milhões de hectares) encontra-se destinado aos 3.589 assentamentos de reforma agrária.

  5. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    March, 2015
    Kenya

    This book exposes the key land use and environmental problems facing Kenya today due to lack of an appropriate national land use policy. The publication details how the air is increasingly being polluted, the water systems are diminishing in quantity and deteriorating in quality. The desertification process threatens the land and its cover. The soils are being eroded leading to siltation of the ocean and lakes. The forests are being depleted with impunity thus destroying the water catchments.

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