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 ResourcePublication évaluée par des pairsRapports et recherchesdécembre, 2002Amérique du Sud, Brésil
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Toward an integrated global assessment
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a synthesis
Documents de politique et mémoiresdécembre, 1995Afrique sub-saharienne, AfriqueThe workshop participants were clear that now is the time for choices, and that without the will to make those choices, the likelihood of success in boosting agricultural growth on a sustained basis would be small. Without such growth, it will not be possible to improve food security or halt natural resource degradation. It seems unlikely that all countries of Africa will choose to put in place the necessary conditions for growth, which makes it all the more important to decide at the outset which conditions are most likely to beget further success.
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seuls les petits agriculteurs peuvent y parvenir
Documents de politique et mémoiresdécembre, 2003Afrique orientale, Afrique occidentale, Afrique australe, Afrique sub-saharienne, AfriqueContrairement aux prévisions communément admises quant à l’aggravation du déclin économique de l’Afrique, une récente étude présente une vision alternative plus positive de l’avenir de ce continent. De nouveaux engagements politiques, une gestion du programme de développement sous égide africaine ainsi que l’accroissement de l’intérêt et des investissements dans les petites exploitations agricoles ont le potentiel d’arrêter, voire d’inverser la tendance spiroïdale de la famine, de la pauvreté, de la dégradation environnementale, des maladies et des guerres civiles.
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only the small farmer can do it
Documents de politique et mémoiresdécembre, 2002Afrique orientale, Afrique occidentale, Afrique australe, Afrique sub-saharienne, Afrique"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 ResourcePublication évaluée par des pairsArticles et Livresdécembre, 2003
The previous sections have highlighted the importance of assets as a determinant of bargaining power within marriage. Both formal and informal institutions underlie asset accumulation and provide the basis for property rights. When women face social and legal restrictions in acquiring certain forms of assets, such as land, they may resort to accumulating other “assets” and investing in other forms of capital.
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Library ResourceDocuments de politique et mémoiresdécembre, 2004Afrique occidentale, Afrique sub-saharienne, Afrique, Burkina Faso
"This paper describes the emergence of improved traditional planting pits (zaï) in Burkina Faso in the early 1980s as well as their advantages, disadvantages and impact. The zaï emerged in a context of recurrent droughts and frequent harvest failures, which triggered farmers to start improving this local practice. Despair triggered experimentation and innovation by farmers. These processes were supported and complemented by external intervention. Between 1985 and 2000 substantial public investment has taken place in soil and water conservation (SWC).
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Library ResourceRapports et recherchesdécembre, 2014Afrique, Afrique sub-saharienne, Afrique
Ce document vise à contribuer au programme d’action en cours pour le développement de l’Afrique au sud du Sahara.
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Library ResourceRapports et recherchesdécembre, 2014Afrique, Afrique sub-saharienne, Afrique
This report is timely input into the ongoing development agenda for Africa South of the Sahara (SSA).
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Library ResourcePublication évaluée par des pairsArticles et Livresdécembre, 2015Fidji, Îles Salomon, Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée
Climate change projections internationally accepted as being reliable indicate that most countries in the Pacific region will suffer large-scale negative impacts from climate change. These impacts are likely to include elevated air and sea-surface temperatures, increasingly unpredictable rainfall patterns, rising sea levels, and intensification of extreme weather events such as tropical cyclones and El Niño-related droughts.
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