Land Reform In Bolivia: The Forestry Question
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Date of publication
December 2009
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ISBN / Resource ID
NARCIS:eur:oai:repub.eur.nl:22343
Pages
42
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Open Access, this refers to access without restrictions, and without financial incentives. Access to the resource is gained directly, without any obstacles. From info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
textabstractAbstract: In this paper we discuss forestry issues related to land reform in Bolivia. We find that although the current land reform satisfies most of the necessary conditions for adequately addressing development issues in the agrarian sector, it does not deal with many challenges related to forest management and actually contains provisions conflicting with the objectives of sustainable forest management. Given that a large part of the land being titled is actually forest land, omissions and conflicts with the objectives of sustainable forest management are critical and may have harmful ramifications for the preservation of forest resources as well as poverty reduction within forest-dependent communities.