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Mobilising under-utilised low carbon (ULC) land for future agricultural expansion helps minimising further carbon stock loss.
This paper develops a framework for improved mainstreaming of ecosystem science in policy and decision-making within a spatial planning context.
Where rights over natural resources are contested, the effectiveness of conservation may be undermined and it can be difficult to estimate the welfare impacts of conservation restrictions on local people.
Forest conversion in the tropics is increasingly driven by global demand for agricultural forest-risk commodities such as soy, beef, palm oil and timber.
Widespread palm oil production causes much controversy due to its negative impacts in the tropics. But whatever is said about it, it is big business and getting bigger by the day due to increasing global demands.
Valuations of tenure rights are required by the State and by the private sector for a wide variety of reasons, often forming and informing the basis of transactions, taxation, compensation and accounting.
Almost one-quarter of the world’s land area has been degraded over the past 50 years because of soil erosion, salinization, peatland and wetland drainage, and forest degradation.
Why is it so important to restore degraded landscapes? It’s actually very simple.
Rangelands cover a surface area of more than 2 million hectares in Cameroon.