Since the 1970s, federal policies promoting migration and encouraging agricultural development of large farms, logging, and ranching have led to the deforestation of vast areas of the Amazon rainforest.Though these policies have largely been replaced, deforestation continues. What effects do current macroeconomic and regional policies and events have on deforestation and on the well-being of settlers on the agricultural frontier?
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Library ResourcePublicación revisada por paresInformes e investigacionesDiciembre, 2002América del Sur, Brasil
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only the small farmer can do it
Documentos de política y resúmenesDiciembre, 2002África oriental, África occidental, África austral, África subsahariana, África"In contrast to popular predictions of Africa’s worsening economic decline, recent research supports an alternative and more positive vision of Africa’s future. New political commitment and African ownership of the development agenda, combined with a renewed focus on and investments in smallholder-led agriculture, have the potential to halt or reverse the current downward spiral of hunger, poverty, environmental degradation, disease, and civil strife.
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Library ResourceDocumentos de conferencias e informesDiciembre, 2002
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projections to 2020 under different scenarios
Documentos de política y resúmenesDiciembre, 2002"This paper reports results of incorporating fish into IMPACT, a global model of food supply and demand that estimates market-clearing prices to 2020 for 32 commodities in 36 regions. It summarizes results for production, consumption, net exports and real price changes for 10 economic categories of fisheries items, disaggregated into 15 geographic regions of the world.
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Library ResourceInformes e investigacionesEnero, 2002Global
This paper examines future prospects for rainfed cereal production, and its importance in the evolving global food system. First, the paper undertakes a critical synthesis of the literature to assess three primary ways to enhance rainfed cereal yields: increasing effective rainfall use through improved water management, particularly water harvesting; increasing crop yields in rainfed areas through agricultural research; and reforming policies and increasing investments in rainfed areas.
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Library ResourceArtículos de revistas y librosEnero, 2002Viet Nam
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