To understand how this happens , one must examine the causes of tropical deforestation and then identify institutional factors entangled in those ... THE PROBLEM OF DEFORESTATION IN THE TROPICS The causes of deforestation are twofold .

2.5 percent of tropical wood production and 15 percent of the production of industrial timber . ... misguided assumption that the elimination of tropical timber exports to industrial countries will stop deforestation in the tropics .

Tropical forest sheep are resistant to disease , being especially tolerant to trypanosomiasis , haemonchosis , and ... Despite worldwide concern for deforestation in the tropics , of the many tropical forests which are commercially used ...

Recent estimates show tropical rain forest cover is less than half that , or 7.5 million square km . ... In 1985 , international concern with the rate of deforestation in the tropics lead to the formation of the Tropical Forestry Action ...

WORLD WIDE FUND FOR NATURE , Surrey , Sustainable tropical forest management by 1995. ... POLITICAS ; LEGISLACION ; IMPUESTOS ; PRODUCTOS FORESTALES ; ENCUESTAS ; COSTA RICA 0185 0102 22809 REPETTO , R. Deforestation in the tropics .

In Latin America , other causes have included stock raising and land settlement programmes ( United Nations 1991b ) . The FAO's provisional estimates for the decade 1981-1990 show that the rate of deforestation of tropical ...

Finally , there is an important world effort oriented to stop deforestation in the tropics and to contribute to development of the tropical countries . This effort is the Tropical Forestry Action Plan ( TFAP ) . An important support for ...

The lion's share of deforestation is attributed to the expansion of agriculture especially pasturelands . " Since 1950 for example , manestablished pasture or grazing lands and the number of cattle have more than doubled in Central ...

PALABRAS CLAVE : USO DE LA TIERRA ; DEFORESTACION ; EROSION ; AGROFORESTERIA ; AMERICA TROPICAL . RESUMEN The improper use of land is resulting in the rapid deforestation of the American tropics , with a concomitant degradation of land ...

Deforestation for pasture in the Humid Tropics . ... In Pasture Production in Acid Soils of the Tropics , P.A. Sanchez and L.E. Tergas ( eds ) Cali , Colombia : Centro International de Agricultura Tropical . Toledo , J.M. 1990.