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Manual de Reforestación para América Tropical (Reforestation Manual for Tropical America)

Este documento aporta una visión general de la reforestación a partir de muchas perspectivas diferentes.

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The Role of Trees in Agroecology and Sustainable Agriculture in the Tropics

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Land Degradation, Less Favored Lands and the Rural Poor: A Spatial and Economic Analysis.

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Ten Principles for a Landscape Approach to Reconciling Agriculture, Conservation, and Other Competing Land Uses

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"Landscape approaches" in ecological restoration aim to provide tools and concepts for allocating and managing land that both provide social, economic, and environmental objectives in regions in which land use typically compete with environmental and biodiversity goals. This paper outlines the current consensus on landscape approaches. 

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Regional and global concerns over wetlands and water quality

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This paper examines the ecological role of wetlands in agricultural cachements and examines the dymamics of nutrient loading in wetlands at a local and watershed scale.

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On the hope for biodiversity-friendly tropical landscapes

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As pristine tropical forests get harder to preserve, much expectation has been allocated to the conservation of ecosystem services and biodiversity into Human-modified landscales (HMLs). However, it has not been fully assessed to what degree HMLs are able to sustain ecosystem services and what management practices can enhance biodiversity conservatoin in them.

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Biofuels: The Impact of Oil Palm on Forests and Climate

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Ecosystem-based adaptation for smallholder farmers: Definitions, opportunities and constraints

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Towards integrated pest and pollinator management in tropical crops

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Gender equality, food security and the sustainable development goals

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Forests, food, and fuel in the tropics: the uneven social and ecological consequences of the emerging political economy of biofuels

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