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Brazil: Forests in the Balance
in Brasilia and Washington. All contributions were incorporated into
the various versions of the manuscript. The views expressed in this report
of the Brazil team are those of the authors and not necessarily of
those who participated in the process.
EMBRAPA (Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuaria), Brazil’s
national agricultural research institute, financed a number of background
studies in support of the OED review. The modeling team has had a
long-standing collaboration with the Acre and Rondonia research centers
of EMBRAPA. Uma Lele visited Brazil in August 1998 and October
1998 and held discussions with government, NGO, and donor (World
Bank, GTZ, DFID, European Union) representatives, EMBRAPA, and
the World Wide Fund for Nature. Ms. Lele and Karin Perkins also interviewed
the World Bank’s Brazil country team and various task managers.
OED would like to thank Dr. Alberto Portugal, President of
EMBRAPA, and Dr. Francisco Reifschneider, Head of the International
Cooperation, for their research support as well as for facilitating a number
of stimulating discussions between Uma Lele and EMBRAPA, university
research scientists (in Curitiba, Sao Paulo, Manaus, Belem,
Brazilia, Rio de Janeiro, and Santa Catarina), and land managers.
An earlier draft of this report has benefited from detailed comments
by Dennis Mahar and Robert Schneider, the two lead environmental
economists in the Brazil country team, and David Kaimowitz of the
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR). The views expressed
in this report are, however, those of the authors alone and not of those
assisting in the conduct of this study. Background reports produced for
this study by the Brazil and bioeconomic modeling teams are available
on request.
OED, in collaboration with the Government of Brazil, EMBRAPA,
and the World Bank country office, held a workshop in Brasilia on
November 18-19, 1999. The purpose of the workshop was to discuss
the contents of this evaluation with the various in-country stakeholders
including representatives from Government of Brazil, the forest industry,
NGOs, EMBRAPA, indigenous peoples, and the World Bank. The
workshop was inaugurated by World Bank Country Director Gobind
Nankani and the Brazilian Secretary of Environment José Carlos
Carvalho. The results of the workshop are summarized in Annex F.
The case study was discussed at the global meeting on the Preliminary
Synthesis Report of A Review of the 1991 Forest Strategy and Its
implementation held in Washington during January 27-28, 2000. The
country study was also placed on the web as part of the OED-ESSD
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