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  1. Library Resource
    March, 2013
    Brazil

    This report presents the partial results
    related to land use, land-use change and the forestry sector
    from a larger multisectoral low-carbon study for Brazil.
    Since the 1992 Kyoto Accord, Brazil has been committed to
    reducing its carbon emissions. The overall aim of this study
    was to support Brazil's efforts to identify
    opportunities to reduce its emissions in ways that foster
    economic development. The primary objective was to provide

  2. Library Resource
    April, 2014
    El Salvador

    This study assesses the alignment of
    land use, land tenure, and land market outcomes in El
    Salvador with public policy aspirations in recent decades
    for efficient, inclusive, and environmentally sustainable
    development in both urban and rural spaces. In doing so the
    study indirectly gauges the effectiveness of land sector
    institutions in facilitating such developmental outcomes in
    agricultural production, urbanization, and forest

  3. Library Resource
    September, 2015
    Brazil

    This report on the assessment of land
    governance in Brazil summarizes and discusses the results of
    a series of standardized self-assessments of the land
    governance situation in Brazil, conducted entirely by
    Brazilian speakers. Therefore, these findings represent the
    perception of local experts based on their experience of
    news and data available. The main aim of this report are
    federal and state authorities directly involved in land

  4. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Brazil

    The overarching theme of the book is
    development in a land of contrasts. There have been large
    economic, social, and political changes. The mass of society
    is far more expressive and politically involved today. In
    1945, the country had 7.4 million voters, about 11 percent
    of the population. Today it has 120 million voters, or 67
    percent of the population. The economy has been modernized,
    the capitalist ethos spread across regions, mass

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Paraguay

    This study has at its origin the land
    question in Paraguay, namely that land ownership is highly
    concentrated and has become a source of social conflict in
    the rural areas where one-half of the population lives. A
    central thesis of the study is that the existing patterns of
    land use and ownership, in particular, the very large land
    holdings (Zatifundio), are a reflection in part of the
    almost insignificant land tax that is charged today on rural

  9. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Paraguay

    This study has at its origin the land
    question in Paraguay, namely that land ownership is highly
    concentrated and has become a source of social conflict in
    the rural areas where one-half of the population lives. A
    central thesis of the study is that the existing patterns of
    land use and ownership, in particular, the very large land
    holdings (Zatifundio), are a reflection in part of the
    almost insignificant land tax that is charged today on rural

  10. Library Resource
    June, 2015
    Costa Rica

    Costa Rica stands out for being among the most politically stable, progressive, prosperous, and environmentally conscious nations in the Latin America and the Caribbean region. Its development model has brought important economic, social, and environmental dividends, with sustained growth, upward mobility for a large share of the population, important gains in social indicators, and significant achievements in reforestation and conservation. However, there are a number of development challenges that need to be addressed to maintain the country’s successful development path.

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