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The impacts and opportunities of oil palm in Southeast Asia: What do we know and what do we need to know?

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Journal Articles & Books
Diciembre, 2009

The ongoing expansion of oil palm plantations in the humid tropics, especially in Southeast Asia, is generating considerable concern and debate. Amid industry and environmental campaigners’ claims, it can be hard to perceive reality. Is oil palm a valuable route to sustainable development or a costly road to environmental ruin? Inevitably, any answer depends on many choices.

Moving forward

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Reports & Research
Diciembre, 2009
Angola
Liechtenstein
Bangladesh
United States of America
Congo
Comoros
Cameroon
Uzbekistan
Switzerland
Kenya
Zambia
Denmark
Rwanda
Philippines
Kyrgyzstan
Italy
Brazil
Tunisia
Argentina
Sudan
Papua New Guinea
Czech Republic

Forests, trees and woodlands cover almost one-third of the Earth’s land area. They are a crucial source of food and income for more than a billion people around the globe.

Carbon sequestration in forest trees of the EU as affected by long-term changes of land use.CAB Reviews

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Journal Articles & Books
Diciembre, 2009
Finland

The biomass of forest vegetation expands in all EU countries. This review analyses the long-term development of forest vegetation and, thereby, the sequestration of carbon in forest biomass in the EU, country by country. The sequestration estimates and their uncertainties are assessed focusing on the period 1990-2006. The most recent estimates are compared with those for earlier times.

From natural forests to agroforests in the Guinea forest region

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Journal Articles & Books
Diciembre, 2009
Guinea
Africa

A combined agronomic and geographic approach has helped to explain forest agrosystem spatio-temporal dynamics in the forest regions of Guinea. The important expansion of cropping systems associating various perennial crops (coffee, kola, cocoa, fruit trees) and native spontaneous forest species – called “agroforests”- has been observed in 3 villages of the Kobela area.

Brazilian greenhouse gas emissions: the importance of agriculture and livestock

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Journal Articles & Books
Diciembre, 2009
China
Spain
India
Brazil
New Zealand

Data from the 1990-1994 period presented in the "Brazil's Initial National Communication" document indicated that the country is one of the top world greenhouse gas (GHG) emitters. A large majority of Brazil's GHG emissions come from deforestation mainly of the Amazon biome for agriculture and livestock land uses. This unique inventory is now out of date.

De la forêt naturelle aux agroforêts en Guinée forestière

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Journal Articles & Books
Diciembre, 2009
Guinea
Africa

A combined agronomic and geographic approach has helped to explain forest agrosystem spatio-temporal dynamics in the forest regions of Guinea. The important expansion of cropping systems associating various perennial crops (coffee, kola, cocoa, fruit trees) and native spontaneous forest species – called “agroforests”- has been observed in 3 villages of the Kobela area.

Nuevos registros de distribución y oferta de hábitat de la danta colombiana (Tapirus terrestris colombianus) en las tierras bajas del norte de la Cordillera Central (Colombia)

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Journal Articles & Books
Diciembre, 2009
Colombia

The aim of this study was to determine some aspects of the distribution and habitat availability for the subspecies Tapirus terrestris colombianus in the low lands of the northern Central Mountain Chain in Colombia, which is known as the Antioquian Northeast. The results confirm the presence of this subspecies in 20 new recording localities.