Does social forestry always decrease deforestation and poverty? (commentary)

Mongabay
Sep 17, 2017, 10:08 pm178 pts
Despite decades of hard environmental battle against deforestation, tropical forest losses continue unabated. Forests are cut down to make way for cattle-grazing land, oil palm plantations or other non-forests uses. Often, governments justify this deforestation by pointing to the prospective economic and social…

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