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DRIVERS OF DEFORESTATION



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31/08/2010		 Tropical forests were the primary sources of new agricultural land in the 1980s and 1990s
Global demand for agricultural products such as food, feed, and fuel is now a major driver of cropland ... 		Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, US (H. K. Gibbs, A. S. Ruesch, F. Achard, M. K. Clayton, P. Holmgren, N. Ramankutty, and J. A. Foley)

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01/01/2010 Chainsaw Milling in Ghana: Context, Drivers and Impacts
In spite of being banned in 1998, chainsaw milling continues to be a major supplier of Ghana’s ... 		CSIR FORIG / Tropenbos International (Emmanuel Marfo)

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02/12/2009 Putting the Brakes on Drivers of Forest Destruction: A Shared Responsibility.
The authors of this briefing, published ahead of the Copenhagen climate talks, believe that rising demand ... 		Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA)

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27/10/2009 Report of Informal Working Group in Interim Finance for REDD+
Discussion document published by the Informal Working Group in Interim Finance for REDD+ established ... 		Informal Working Group in Interim Finance for REDD+

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27/10/2009 Government's response to Environmental Audit Committee report on 'Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Deforestation: No hope without forests'
The Environmental Audit Committee of the House of Commons published its report on 'Reducing greenhouse ... 		UK government

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01/06/2009 Slaughtering the Amazon
The authors claim that the cattle sector in the Brazilian Amazon is the largest driver of deforestation ... 		Greenpeace

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15/10/2008 REDD and forest governance
Submission to the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee inquiry into 'Forests: the future ... 		Chatham House (Thomas Legge, Alison Hoare and Jade Saunders)

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15/08/2008 Estimating the cost of building capacity in rainforest nations to allow them to participate in a global REDD mechanism
This report provides an estimation of the funds that will be needed to build capacity in 25 rainforest ... 		Chatham House and ProForest (Alison Hoare, Thomas Legge, Ruth Nussbaum & Jade Saunders)

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01/06/2008 The Roles and Movements of Actors in the Deforestation of Brazilian Amazonia
Containing the advance of deforestation in Brazilian Amazonia requires understanding the roles and movements ... 		Fearnside, Philip M. (for Ecology and Society)

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31/03/2008 Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation: Lessons from a forest governance perspective
Outlines experiences from existing efforts aimed at improving forest governance which should be considered ... 		ProForest, Chatham House, EcoSecurities (Ruth Nussbaum, Jade Saunders, Johannes Ebeling)

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01/01/2008 Forest Governance and Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD)
This is a revised version of the paper ... 		Chatham House and ProForest (Jade Saunders and Ruth Nussbaum)

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01/12/2007 Protecting the future: carbon, forests, protected areas and local livelihoods
Summary document looking at current proposals on reducing emissions from deforestation in developing ... 		United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC)

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22/05/2006 Analysis of Myths and Realities of Deforestation in Northwest Pakistan: Implications for Forestry Extension
Pakistan has a very high deforestation rate. The remaining forests are very diverse in nature and of ... 		Ali, Tanvir; Shahbaz, Babar & Suleri, Abid

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31/12/2002 The Underlying Causes of Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Pakistan
This paper is based on the findings of a workshop held in December 2002 to identify the underlying causes ... 		Saaed, Asif (for the FAO)

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01/01/2001 Extent and Causes of Illegal Logging: An Analysis of a Major Cause of Tropical Deforestation in Indonesia
A working paper considering the activity of illegal loggers as the principal cause of recent high rates ... 		CSERGE (Charles Palmer)

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NEWS

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02/09/2010 80% of tropical agricultural expansion between 1980-2000 came at expense of forests
More than 80 percent of agricultural expansion in the tropics between 1980 and 2000 came at the expense ... 		Mongabay.com

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16/08/2010 Climate change expert urges a rethink of forest futures
The earth could be in the mists of the single biggest extinction period since the dinosaurs, according ... 		Charles Darwin University, Australia

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03/08/2010 Model shows 'waves of forest degradation'
An international team of researchers has developed a model that suggests degradation of tropical forests ... 		BBC News

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29/03/2010 Population density corresponds with forest loss in the Congo Basin
Africa's greatest rainforest ecosystem, the Congo Basin, has undergone significant deforestation ... 		Mongabay.com

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07/02/2010 Commodity trade and urbanization, rather than rural poverty, drive deforestation
Forest conservation via REDD may be ineffective without addressing commodity consumption and trade, argues ... 		Mongabay.com

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27/12/2009 Rainforest conservation: a year in review
2009 may prove to be an important turning point for tropical forests. ... 		Mongabay.com

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18/12/2009 Can climate action resuscitate tropical forests?
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09/12/2009 Changing drivers of deforestation provide new opportunities for conservation
Tropical deforestation claimed roughly 13 million hectares of forest per year during the first half of ... 		Mongabay.com

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07/12/2009 Copenhagen: Felling the Amazon rainforest could end within a decade
Amazonia has become synonymous with the destruction of the world’s rainforests, but the Copenhagen ... 		Telegraph, UK

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02/12/2009 In absence of measures to address consumption, REDD may fail to protect forests
Rising demand for timber and agricultural products could work against a proposed initiative to reduce ... 		Mongabay.com

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22/09/2009 Can Nike and Wal-Mart save the Amazon?
An ambitious commitment by some of the world's largest companies not to buy beef or leather products ... 		The Christian Science Monitor

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18/08/2009 Forests and businesses: uneasy bedfellows
Windhoek - Too few businesses use appropriate industry-led approaches to tackle the threat of wholesale ... 		New Era, Namibia

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23/07/2009 The need to check deforestation in West Africa
Achieving long-term development in West Africa requires much more than just exploiting the region's ... 		Business Day, Nigeria

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09/07/2009 G8 leaders declare support for REDD forest conservation initiative
A declaration issued by political leaders meeting at the G8 summit in L'Aquila, Italy, included ... 		Mongabay.com

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02/07/2009 Carbon markets won't save the rainforest - we must tackle the route causes of deforestation
Responding to the launch of the [UK] Environmental Audit Committee's report on how to stop emissions ... 		7th Space Interactive

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14/06/2009 Climate pact must halt deforestation and industrial logging of old-growth forests, exclude carbon credits for forest conservation, say activists
A global framework on climate change must immediately halt deforestation and industrial logging of the ... 		Mongabay.com

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04/03/2009 Amazon deforestation drops 70% for Nov 2008-Jan 2009 period
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon fell to 291 square miles (754 square kilometers) in the November ... 		Mongabay.com

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22/04/2008 International Deforestation and Climate Change: Statement for the record by US Assistant Administrator for Economic Growth, Agriculture and Trade
(USAID Press Release) How the US government and US Agency for International Development (USAID) work ... 		USAID (USA)

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09/02/2008 Growing money on trees
Tropical forests store enormous amounts of carbon and its release, through deforestation, accounts for ... 		Green Left Weekly (Australia)

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22/09/2007 Community logging may address deforestation
Indonesia is the third biggest contributor to global warming after the United States and China, adding ... 		The Jakarta Post (Indonesia)

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