Beneath the Canopy: Tropical Forests Enrolled in Conservation Payments Reveal Evidence of Less Degradation
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Tropical forest conservation; Programa Socio Bosque; Additionality; Deforestation; Forest degradation; Impact Evaluation;All these keywords.
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