FAO and EU team up to boost livelihoods and protect the environment

In much of Southeast Asia, the rise of rural land conflicts and struggles often parallels market expansion into frontiers, a collage of historical state interventions, negotiations over state authority and contested legitimacy. Scholarship on Vietnam has yielded important insights on the changes...

Policies needed that address growing domestic and international markets

The article analyses the trajectory of a group of Brazilian intellectuals from 1786 to 1810, who inaugurated a systematic critique of the environmental damage caused by colonial economy in Brazil, especially forest destruction and soil erosion. These authors, schooled in the culture of the...

Canadian research shows value of bear viewing ecotourism

A report is given from a study done in 1998 under the project on a positive agenda for the forestry sector in Brazil, financed by the Ministério do Meio Ambiente (MMA), Instituto Brasileiro do Meio Ambiente e Recursos Naturais Renovaveis (IBAMA) and FAO. The document constitutes studies on the...

[See FA 38, 3744] Arguments are presented in favour of a larger social time preference rate of discount on investment than that recommended by C. Price. A reply by Price to Kelly's arguments is included at the end of the article.

The judgement referred to [cf. F.A. 17 No. 1898] was reversed in the court of appeal, and this decision has now been upheld by the House of Lords. It was held that the war-risk clauses stamped across the bill of lading were not in conflict with the main object of the contract, i.e. the delivery of...

Study compares performance of local and government conservation initiatives in the Peruvian Amazon 

Two American tree species have been identified as being suitable for the production of cross-laminated timber