Can Environmental Protection Reduce Paraguays Foreign Debt

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Can Environmental Protection Reduce Paraguays
Foreign Debt?

• Jeremy Smith
• Agricultural Economics
• Abigail Stone
• Environmental Economics

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Deforestation
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Environmental Problems

• Forest conditions are irreplaceable damage
  irreversible
• Long-term environmental damage
• Soils ill suited for long-term agriculture

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PARAGUAYS DEBT

• 2.8 billion in debt
• Debt drives deforestation
• Land Use
• cattle
• soybean production

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? Deforestation ? ? Debt
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? Conservation ? Debt

• Harvest Values
• 9 Billion
• Soybeans
• Lumber

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? Conservation ? Debt

• Non-Harvest Values
• 151 Billion
• Ecotourism
• Pharmaceuticals
• Non-timber products
• Carbon storage

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Forest Values
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Save Trees, Make Money!

• Environmental protection CAN reduce Paraguays
  foreign debt.