Brazil
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Knowledge | Impacts of Climate Change on Rural Landscapes in Brazil
03.08.11PROFOR is supporting the creation of a multidisciplinary team grouping experts from Brazil's leading research agencies to improve climate change assessments and map climate impacts on agriculture and forests in Brazil over the next 50 years. Improved assessments could provide crucial information to policy makers on priorities, geographical targeting, and phasing of investments for adataptation and mitigation to climate change.
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Knowledge | Brazil: Scaling up Renewable Charcoal Production
03.08.11PROFOR and the BioCarbon Fund are co-financing a study designed to identify institutional and financial arrangements required to mainstream forest plantation business models and promote the potential development of CDM projects aimed at reducing GHG emissions in the forestry and iron supply chains in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil.
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Knowledge | The Role of Forestry in Low-carbon Growth Strategies
03.08.11Experience from 3 case studies (Brazil, Mexico, Indonesia).
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Knowledge | Forest Resource Access and Local Livelihoods
12.30.08In partnership with CIFOR, PROFOR examined key variables affecting access to forest resources and their benefits. To improve understanding of these relationships in diverse settings, case studies were carried out in Bolivia, Brazil, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua to include conservation settlement communities, indigenous territories and agro-extractive communities.
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Knowledge | Building Local Democracy Through Natural Resources Interventions
10.31.08Choose carefully when you design forestry projects. Choices of local partners influence the formation and consolidation of local democracy by affecting representation, citizenship, and the public domain.
