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Project 1: Causes of Deforestation, Forest Degradation and Changes in Human Welfare

Objective:
Work to improve the capacity of policy makers and opinion leaders to make better-informed decisions, both by directly generating information and by increasing the capacity of national researchers in tropical countries to do so.

Main sites:
Bolivia, Cameroon, Indonesia, Panama, Zimbabwe.

Major partners:
CEDLA and BOLFOR (Bolivia); Institut de Recherche Agricole pour le Développement and Institut National de Cartographie (Cameroon); Agricultural Frontier Program (Panama); Bogor Agricultural University (Indonesia); University of Zimbabwe.

Deforestation and degradation