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    Agricultural intensification by smallholders in the Western Brazilian Amazon

    Reports & Research
    January, 2002
    Brazil
    deforestation
    land use
    land management

    Despite the importance of tropical moist forests for conserving biodiversity and storing carbon, forests continue to fall, because the private benefits of clearing land for agriculture far outweigh tangible economic gains from retaining forests. This report measures the financial disparity between forested and cleared land for small-scale farmers in two settlements in the western Brazilian Amazon where pastures are expanding and forests receding.

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    Estudos Avançados

    O MST e a formação dos sem terra: o movimento social como princípio educativo

    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2001
    Brazil
    Indigenous & Community Land Rights
    agrarian reform
    communal territory
    community land rights
    land rights
    local communities

    O MOVIMENTO DOS Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra, também conhecido como Movimento dos Sem Terra ou MST, é fruto de uma questão agrária que é estrutural e histórica no Brasil. Nasceu da articulação das lutas pela terra, que foram retomadas a partir do final da década de 70, especialmente na região Centro-Sul do país e, aos poucos, expandiu-se pelo Brasil inteiro. O MST teve sua gestação no período de 1979 a 1984, e foi criado formalmente no Primeiro Encontro Nacional de Trabalhadores Sem Terra, que se realizou de 21 a 24 de janeiro de 1984, em Cascavel, no estado do Paraná.

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    Soybean technology and the loss of natural vegetation in Brazil and Bolivia

    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2001
    Bolivia, Brazil
    Land, Climate Change & Environment
    Forest Tenure
    deforestation

    This paper looks at the impact of the introduction of new soybean technologies on the clearing of natural vegetation (forest and savanna) in southern Brazil, the Brazilian Cerrado, and Santa Cruz, Bolivia. The paper looks at how technological change interacted with other government policies and examines general equilibrium effects on product and labor markets as well as the direct on-farm effects. In southern Brazil new technologies made large-scale mechanized soybean production more profitable.

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    Regional Reviews and National Management Reports - Fourth Workshop on the Assessment and Management of Shrimp and Groundfish Fisheries on the Brazil-Guianas Shelf, Cumaná, Venezuela, 2-13 October 2000

    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2001
    Brazil, Spain, Italy, Trinidad and Tobago, Suriname, Venezuela, Guyana, Norway, Americas
    fisheries
    natural resources management

    This document assembles three reviews of the marine shrimp and groundfish fisheries of the Brazil-Guianas shelf (northern Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago and eastern Venezuela) and one on environmental aspects of the area. The resources reviews are based on technical reports prepared prior to and during the Workshop in Cumaná, Venezuela and during previous meetings of the stock assessment experts of the WECAFC Ad Hoc Working Group on Shrimp and Groundfish Resources in the Brazil-Guianas Shelf.

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    Results of FRA 2000 (Secretariat Note)

    Reports & Research
    December, 2001
    France, United States of America, Spain, China, Indonesia, Australia, Ireland, Suriname, Guyana, Finland, Japan, Italy, Brazil, India, Russia, Gabon, Papua New Guinea, Canada
    Forest Tenure
    forestry
    natural resources management

    Meeting symbol/code: COFO 2001 6

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    No-Tillage Farming for Sustainable Land Management: Lessons from the 2000 Brazil Study Tour

    Reports & Research
    December, 2001
    Mozambique, Kenya, Zambia, Uganda, Mali, Zimbabwe, Eritrea, Tanzania, South Africa, Ghana, Malawi, Mexico, Brazil, Africa, Americas
    Land, Climate Change & Environment
    sustainable land management
    farming systems
    land management
    environment

    In November 2000, the World Bank (WB) and the Brazilian Federation for Direct Planting into Crop Residue (FEBRAPDP) organized the third Study Tour on “Producer-Led Rural Organizations for Sustainable Land Management” (PRO-SLM), with particular emphasis on notillage systems (NT).1 The Study Tour followed a 10-day itinerary of over 1,000 km through Southern Brazil, covering Paraná and Santa Catarina States, two states which received WB support through land and micro-watershed management projects.</p> This Paper presents the salient features of NT development in Southern Brazil and discu

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    The forest resources assessment 2000 (FRA 2000) - Secretariat Note

    Reports & Research
    December, 2001
    Honduras, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Chile, Guatemala, Peru, Jamaica, Bolivia, Cuba, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Colombia, Panama, Mexico, Nicaragua, Belize, Uruguay, Ecuador, Argentina, Bahamas, Paraguay, Barbados, Brazil
    Forest Tenure
    forestry
    natural resources management

    Meeting symbol/code: LACFC 2000 4

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    Resource assessment of non-wood forest products

    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2001
    Benin, United States of America, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Indonesia, United Kingdom, Ghana, Venezuela, Finland, Cameroon, Nepal, Philippines, Uganda, Belize, Italy, Ecuador, India, Bolivia, Mexico, Brazil
    Forest Tenure
    forestry
    natural resources management

    The last decade has witnessed a steep increase in interest and activities concerning NWFPs. The current interest in NWFPs amongst conservationists, foresters, development workers and indigenous peoples' groups has prompted numerous initiatives aimed at promoting NWFP use and commercialization as a means of improving the well-being of rural populations and, at the same time, conserving existing forests.

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