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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2014
    South America, Colombia

    The purpose of the work presented in this report is to demonstrate that policymakers have tools at their disposal that provide significant help in the evaluation of trade-offs, opportunities, and repercussions of the policies under consideration. This report focuses on Colombia, however the analytical framework can be applied to any country interested in exploring country-wide effects and economic viability of policies that aim to reduce GHG emissions from agriculture. Results provided in this study should be seen as an example of the potential applications of the framework developed.

  2. Library Resource
    January, 2015
    Colombia

    The growing use of Payments for
    Environmental Services (PES) for conservation has fostered a
    debate on its effectiveness, but the few efforts to date to
    assess the impact of PES programs have been hampered by lack
    of data, leading to very divergent results. This paper uses
    data from a PES mechanism implemented in Quindío, Colombia,
    to examine the impact of PES on land use change. Alone among
    all early PES initiatives, the Silvopastoral Project

  3. Library Resource
    December, 2014
    Colombia

    The effectiveness of conservation
    interventions such as Payments for Environmental Services
    (PES) is often evaluated, if it is evaluated at all, only at
    the completion of the intervention. Since gains achieved by
    the intervention may be lost after it ends, even apparently
    successful interventions may not result in long-term
    conservation benefits, a problem known as that of
    permanence. This paper uses a unique dataset to examine the

  4. Library Resource
    April, 2016
    Colombia

    The WBG’s Colombia Systematic Country
    Diagnostic (SCD) analyzed key constraints and opportunities
    that will impact Colombia’s development in the context of
    three defining country characteristics. They include uneven
    territorial development, a long standing armed conflict and
    a growth process led by extractive industries. The Colombia
    Country Partnership Framework (CPF) proposes to address
    these complex development challenges with a flexible,

  5. Library Resource
    November, 2015
    Colombia

    Colombia has made impressive strides in
    reducing poverty and promoting shared prosperity during the
    last decade. Extreme poverty fell from 17.7 percent in 2002
    to 8.1 percent in 2014, while total poverty (including
    moderate poverty) fell from 49.7 percent in 2002 to 29.5
    percent in 2014. The decline implies that 6.2 million people
    left poverty in the period. The multidimensional poverty
    rate, which takes into account education, health, labor,

  6. Library Resource
    August, 2012
    Colombia

    This country note briefly summarizes
    information relevant to both climate change and agriculture
    in Colombia, with focus on policy developments (including
    action plans and programs) and institutional make-up. Like
    most countries in Latin America, Colombia has submitted one
    national communication to the United Nations Framework
    Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) with a second one
    under preparation. Agriculture (including land use change

  7. Library Resource
    May, 2012
    Colombia

    The analysis of the cost of
    environmental degradation conducted as part of the country
    environmental analysis (CEA) shows that the most costly
    problems associated with environmental degradation are urban
    and indoor air pollution; inadequate water supply,
    sanitation, and hygiene; natural disasters (such as flooding
    and landslides); and land degradation. The burden of these
    costs falls most heavily on vulnerable segments of the

  8. Library Resource

    The Economic Case For Securing Indigenous Land Rights in the Amazon

    Reports & Research
    October, 2016
    South America, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia

    A new report offers evidence that the modest investments needed to secure land rights for indigenous communities will generate billions in returns—economically, socially and environmentally—for local communities and the world’s changing climate. The report, Climate Benefits, Tenure Costs: The Economic Case for Securing Indigenous Land Rights, quantifies for the first time the economic value of securing land rights for the communities who live in and protect forests, with a focus on Colombia, Brazil, and Bolivia.


     



  9. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    January, 2006
    Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Peru

    Este dossier es un summary fiel del destacado informe de consenso científico publicado en 2006 por la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Agricultura y la Alimentación (FAO): "Evaluación de los recursos forestales mundiales 2005. Hacia la ordenación forestal sostenible" El dossier completo se encuentra disponible en: http://www.greenfacts.org/es/recursos-forestales/ Cerca del 42 % de los bosques primarios se encuentran en Sudamérica.

  10. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    March, 2017
    Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, Colombia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Indonesia, Liberia, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mexico, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Russia

    Global demand for timber, agricultural commodities, and extractives is a significant driver of deforestation worldwide. Transparent land-concessions data for these large-scale commercial activities are essential to understand drivers of forest loss, monitor environmental impacts of ongoing activities, and ensure efficient and sustainable allocation of land.

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