Agricultural intensification by smallholders in the western Brazilian Amazon : from deforestation to sustainable land use / Stephen A. Vosti, Julie Witcover, and Chantal Line Carpentier.

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 f...

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Uniform Title:Research report (International Food Policy Research Institute) ; 130.
Main Author: Vosti, Stephen A.
Other Authors: Witcover, Julie
Carpentier, Chantal Line
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Food Policy Research Institute, [2002], ©2002.
Series:Research report (International Food Policy Research Institute) ; 130.
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Physical Description:1 electronic text (xiii, 135 pages) : PDF, illustrations map.
Also issued in print.
Format: Electronic eBook

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