This study adopts an institutional approach to analyze the way in which informal rules, in their interaction with formal rules, shape the use of forest resources by diverse types of smallholders and communities (i.e., indigenous people, agro-extractive and traditional communities) in Latin America. Attention is given to understanding the ‘working rules’, comprising both formal and informal rules, that individuals use in making their decisions for land and forest resources access and use, which in turn affect benefits generation and distribution from such resources use.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2009Bolivia, Brazil, Guatemala, Nicaragua
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2008Guatemala, Nicaragua, Brazil, Central America, South America
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2003Honduras, Bolivia, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Brazil, Central America, South America
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2010Brazil, Ecuador, Peru
Between 2005 and 2009, the EU-financed project ForLive set out to analyse promising local forest management initiatives in the Amazon Basin in four countries: Ecuador, Bolivia, Brazil, and Peru. Researchers aimed to identify locally viable practices that benefit livelihoods and ecological stabilisation of landscapes, as well as to define ways to promote these practices as a basis for sound rural development. This book presents lessons learnt from more than 100 studies by researchersfrom Latin America, from practitioners and from local families themselves.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2009Nicaragua, Guatemala, Bolivia, Brazil
This occasional paper is the result of research carried out from 2006 to 2008 on the effects of new tenure rights for forest-based communities in Latin America on access to forest resources and benefits. Focused on seven different regions in four countries, the paper examines changes in statutory rights, the implementation of those rights in practice, and the extent to which they have led to tangible new benefits from forests, particularly to new sources of income.
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