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CACCI country profile Brazil
Brazil has made significant advances in the fight against climate change. The country is highly susceptible to climate impacts due to its geographic location and diverse territory.
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Multistakeholder platforms for natural resource governance: Lessons from eight landscape-level cases
Multistakeholder platforms (MSPs) are the subject of increasing attention and investment in the domain of collaborative natural resource governance, yet evidence-based guidance is slim on policy and investment priorities to leverage the MSP approa
RAPID ADVANCES IN economic development and healthcare in Brazil have contributed to significant improvements in child health and nutrition in recent decades.
This 2012 Global Food Policy Report is the second in an annual series that provides an in-depth look at major food policy developments and events.
This 2012 Global Food Policy Report is the second in an annual series that provides an in-depth look at major food policy developments and events.
This 2012 Global Food Policy Report is the second in an annual series that provides an in-depth look at major food policy developments and events.
IFPRI's flagship report examines the major food policy issues, developments, and decisions of 2012.
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Impacts of climate change and the end of deforestation on land use in the Brazilian legal amazon
Climate change scenarios vary considerably over the Amazon region, with an extreme scenario projecting a dangerous (from the human perspective) increase of 3.8°C in temperature and 30% reduction in precipitation by 2050.
Climate shocks have well-documented impacts on the short-term welfare of rural households in developing countries. We investigate the impact of droughts on Brazilian labour markets.
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Green gold or green wash
This report identifies the links among economic growth, poverty alleviation, and natural resource degradation in Brazil.
newsletter
IFPRI Forum
Since the 1970s, federal policies promoting migration and encouraging agricultural development of large farms, logging, and ranching have led to the deforestation of vast areas of the Amazon rainforest.Though these policies have largely been repla
Despite the importance of tropical moist forests for conserving biodiversity and storing carbon, forests continue to fall, because the private benefits of clearing land for agriculture far outweigh tangible economic gains from retaining forests.
This report identifies the links among economic growth, poverty alleviation, and natural resource degradation in Brazil.
discussion paper
Small-scale farms in the western Brazilian Amazon
Recently scientists have started to examine how land-uses and land-use technologies can help mitigate carbon emissions.
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Policy for plenty
This paper suggests practical methods for assessing policy research programs, both ex post and ex ante.