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  1. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    July, 2013
    Global

    This issue brief presents an overview of REDD+ and the associated tenure and property rights challenges and opportunities.
    Spanish Translation
    Release Date: Wednesday, April 17, 2013File:  Land Tenure and REDD+: Risks to Property Rights and Opportunities for Economic Growth

  2. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    Global

    The 2007-2008 upsurge in agricultural
    commodity prices gave rise to widespread concern about
    investors causing a "global land rush". Large land
    deals can provide opportunities for better access to
    capital, transfer of technology, and advances in
    productivity and employment generation. But they carry risks
    of dispossession and loss of livelihoods, corruption,
    deterioration in local food security, environmental damage,

  3. Library Resource
    June, 2014
    Global

    Economic, agronomic, and biophysical
    drivers affect global land use, so all three influences need
    to be considered in evaluating economically optimal
    allocations of the world's land resources. A dynamic,
    forward-looking optimization framework applied over the
    course of the coming century shows that although some
    deforestation is optimal in the near term, in the absence of
    climate change regulation, the desirability of further

  4. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    Global

    Interest in farmland is rising. And,
    given commodity price volatility, growing human and
    environmental pressures, and worries about food security,
    this interest will increase, especially in the developing
    world. One of the highest development priorities in the
    world must be to improve smallholder agricultural
    productivity, especially in Africa. Smallholder productivity
    is essential for reducing poverty and hunger, and more and

  5. Library Resource
    February, 2013
    Global

    Policy makers and development
    practitioners who are responsible for developing investment
    strategies to promote economic growth find many challenges
    in the changing face of agriculture in the twenty-first
    century. In addition to its productive role of providing
    food, clothing, fuel, and housing for a growing world
    population, agriculture assumes other roles, the importance
    of which has more recently been recognized. In addition to

  6. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Global

    This book grew out of the Global Issues
    seminars and is itself a testament to that two-way dialogue:
    the suggestion to compile the speakers' lecture notes
    into a book came from the students themselves. Both the
    seminars and this book reflect the Bank's conviction
    that the seemingly intractable problems of our globalizing
    world-from entrenched poverty, to climate change, to new
    infectious diseases such as AIDS and avian flu-can be

  7. Library Resource
    May, 2012
    Global

    The global monitoring report 2008 comes
    at an important time. This year marks the halfway point in
    the effort to achieve the millennium development goals
    (MDGs) by 2015. This is also an important year to work
    toward a consensus on how the world is going to respond to
    the challenge of climate change, building on the foundation
    laid at the conference in Bali in December 2007.
    Successfully meeting this challenge will be essential for

  8. Library Resource
    September, 2014
    Indonesia, Global

    This case study is one of six
    evaluations of the implementation of the World Bank's
    1991 Forest Strategy. This and the other cases (Brazil,
    Cameroon, China, Costa Rica, and India) complement a review
    of the entire set of lending and nonlending activities of
    the World Bank Group and the Global Environment Facility. A
    review of World Bank assistance to Indonesia in the forest
    sector since 1991 faces two challenges. The first is

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