They all own at least some land with a sample average of slightly less than 11/2 hectares per household.
Extensive lists were published showing that leading politicians, their families, and numerous associates controlled millions of hectares of concessions.
That zone extended to only some 60 hectares for which, in exchange, the community would renounce any rights to cultivate within the reserved forest.
The conservation significance of small-scale eco-forestry, therefore, is that groups ostensibly set aside 1,000 hectares of tropical lowland rainforest for the next 50 years.
Low returns to soil carbon sequestration per hectare also call into question the efficiency of individual payments.
The producers there are described as poor and ageing farmers typically cultivating less than one hectare, who are facing an uncertain future.
The project causes submergence of about 2800 hectares of tropical forests, two tribal settlements and stretches of cultivated land of non-tribal settlers.
In addition, the 'wealth effect' of transfers counteracts the 'freeing-up effect', which implies that per unit of subsidy fewer hectares of tropical forest are protected.
