More than three-quarters of Mexico's coffee is grown on small plots shaded by the existing forest. Because they preserve forest cover, shade coffee farms provide vital ecological services including harboring biodiversity and preventing soil erosion. Unfortunately, tree cover in Mexico's shade coffee areas is increasingly being cleared to make way for subsistence agriculture, a direct result of the unprecedented decline of international coffee prices over the past decade.
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Library ResourcePolicy Papers & BriefsDecember, 2005Mexico
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksOctober, 2005Brazil, Central America, South America
In developing countries across the globe the impact of livestock on deforestation levels has
been profound. This paper explores the role of the cattle industry in household decision
making for small landholders in the Brazilian Amazon. Important inquiries raised in the
literature are addressed, including the determinants of the co-evolution of deforestation and cattle herds, the possibility of production specialization, and the role of cattle in household livelihoods. Panel data suggest that households have changed focus from crop -
Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2005Dominica, Fiji, Samoa, Micronesia, Guatemala, Guinea-Bissau, Vanuatu, Jamaica, Tonga, Suriname, Malta, Guinea, Guyana, Seychelles, Indonesia, Kiribati, Tuvalu, Palau, Bahamas, Barbados, Nauru, Cuba
Situación de los bosques del mundo –que llega ahora a su sexta edición– presenta un panorama mundial del sector forestal en el que se ofrece la última informa-ción disponible sobre actividades y acontecimientos. Colaboraciones de organizaciones no gubernamen-tales (ONG), personas que actúan a título personal y funcionarios de la FAO ponen de relieve desafíos y oportunidades relacionados con algunas de las princi-pales cuestiones que están surgiendo actualmente.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2005Costa Rica, Philippines, Germany, Madagascar, Brazil, India, Italy, Cameroon, Thailand, Asia
The Forest Resources Assessment (FRA) Project in the Philippines was initiated in August 2002 for the assessment of Philippine forest and tree resources as part of the framework of the Forest Resources Assessment Programme of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to support national forest assessments (NFA).
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