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" ... most commonly practiced pasture-livestock system, which occupies the vast majority of converted forest area, is profitable for smallholders but entails huge carbon emissions and biodiversity loss. Systems that are preferable from an environmental... "
Sustainable Land Management Sourcebook - Page 41
by World Bank - 2008 - 212 pages
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Slash-and-Burn Agriculture: The Search for Alternatives

Cheryl Palm, Stephen A. Vosti, Pedro A. Sanchez, Polly J. Ericksen - 2005 - 494 pages
...better but have prohibitively high labor costs and are riskier for farmers. An alternative, "improved" pasture—livestock system, in which farmers are expressing...biodiversity and carbon storage. In other words, the land use alternatives that are attractive privately are those most at odds with global environmental...
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Slash-and-burn Agriculture: The Search for Alternatives

Cheryl Ann Palm - 2005 - 496 pages
...prohibitively high labor costs and are riskier for farmers. An alternative, "improved" pasture— livestock system, in which farmers are expressing interest,...biodiversity and carbon storage. In other words, the land use alternatives that are attractive privately are those most at odds with global environmental...
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