Financiamiento Forestal en América Latina: El papel del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo
Por Markku Simula, Jyrki Salmi, Esa Puustajärvi (02/02, ENV-138, En, Es) Vea también Medio Ambiente
The study is related to several strategies developed by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), including those on rural poverty reduction, rural finance, agriculture, water resources, coastal resources and energy. The study benefited from the analyses carried out for these strategies, but it clearly concentrates on the Bank?s actions in forestry and the forest industry. It deals with private sector investments as well as public goods pres-ent in the forests of the region.
The IDB has carried out three related studies on forestry and biodiversity. The first one deals with the policies that may change the trend toward converting forests to other uses in Latin America and the Caribbean. The study results were presented in a book pub-lished in English and Spanish (Forest Resource Policy, K. Keipi (ed.), IDB 1999). The second project produced a report on biodiversity, which was also published in English and Spanish (Financing Biodiversity Conservation, Bayon et al., IDB 2000). The third (forthcoming) study analyzes forestry and forest-based industries (forest clusters) as ve-hicles of development in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico. Other related Bank papers include a study of urban forestry in Latin America and the Caribbean (Good Practices for Urban Greening, Sorensen, et al., IDB 1997).
The IDB has sponsored a number of additional studies on various instruments of envi-ronmental and natural resources financing that are related to the forestry sector. They in-clude the use of environmental funds in Latin America, continuing analysis of the Bank?s possible role in the application of financial instruments related to the Framework Con-vention on Climate Change (FCCC) and the use of forests as carbon sinks.
The overall objective of this study is to present recommendations for the IDB?s forest-related lending and support to institutional and policy development in borrowing member countries. The recommendations in this paper may be used for future forestry considera-tions for rural development and natural resource management programs.
Ultima actualización: 08/05/07
