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1 Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized Project Name PROJECT INFORMATION DOCUMENT (PID) APPRAISAL STAGE Report No.: AB3408 AR Sustainable Natural Resources Management (formerly Sustainable Forestry Development) Region LATIN AMERICA AND CARIBBEAN Sector General agriculture, fishing and forestry sector (60%);Forestry (20%);Central government administration (20%) Project ID P GEF Focal Area B-Biodiversity Global Supplemental ID P Borrower(s) Government of Argentina Implementing Agency SAGPyA, SAyDS, and APN Environment Category [ ] A [X] B [ ] C [ ] FI [ ] TBD (to be determined) Date PID Prepared November 2, 2007 Date of Appraisal November 5, 2007 Authorization Date of Board Approval January 29, Country and Sector Background Overview Argentina has strong competitive advantages in agriculture, ranching, forestry, fisheries and more recently in nature-based tourism. The country has exceptional growing conditions, vast expanses of good quality land with low opportunity cost, a reliable system of land titling, and good infrastructure in many key areas. Its natural beauty is unsurpassed and attracts increasing numbers of tourists each year. Following the economic and political crises of 2002, recovery and growth has been underway in many areas the forestry sector corrected a 10 year trade imbalance in 2004, agriculture grew by 25% in 2005 and tourism is 20% higher than pre-crisis levels. While such growth is positive, due to strains these activities place on soils, forests and natural habitats, a balanced approach toward expansion is vital one that promotes economic growth yet preserves and protects Argentina s natural resources over the long term. A recent World Bank co-sponsored publication Argentina: State of the Environment 2005, 1 concluded that According to the sustainable development indicators published by the Secretariat of the Environment, the major environmental trends are still of great concern. The report further documents that the loss of economic and social capital as a result of the crisis in the early part of this decade spilled over to the loss of natural capital as well. The recovery of economic and social capital, now 3-4 years in the upswing, has also created momentum for the country to attend to conserving its natural capital as well. In short, as the country emerges from its acute crisis, it is turning to longer-term issues such as the sustainable use of its natural resources. 1 Fundación Vida Silvestre, La situación ambiental argentina 2005, Publisher

2 The Government of Argentina has engaged the World Bank in dialogue concerning a wide range of natural resource management (NRM) issues, from deforestation to land degradation, fisheries depletion, and sustainable tourism. 2 The dialogue has similarly engaged a wide range of institutions, but primarily the three national-level Secretariats of Agriculture, Environment, and Tourism (which includes the National Parks Administration). Furthermore, this dialogue is taking place at a time when previous Bank-financed projects with each of these three Secretariats, all designed in the late 1990s, have closed or are closing soon. The key challenges for each of the three main priority areas for NRM in Argentina -- forestry, land degradation, and protected area management/biodiversity conservation -- are summarized below. First, however, it should be noted that all three of these key challenges are present in full force in the Chaco region, the five-province area in northwest Argentina that is the country s most threatened eco-region. 3 For this reason, addressing this cluster of NRM issues in the Chaco region is one of the main themes of the proposed for the project. Forestry and Sustainable Land Use Management Argentina covers approximately 280 million hectares of land, of which 20% (60 million ha) are considered to be moderately or severely eroded. Each year an additional 0.6 million ha of degraded soils are added to this total. Forested land covers around 34 million ha, of which 97% are native forests and 3% (1.2 million ha) are plantation forests of exotic pines and eucalypts. The national average deforestation rate has been % over the past ten years, or twice the Latin American average. These trends in land degradation and deforestation are closely linked. In parts of the country, especially the Chaco and parts of the Pampas and Patagonia, they are driven by changes in land use and agricultural cropping, which in turn has been fundamentally driven by the steady expansion of soybean production. Elsewhere, primary causes of natural resource degradation are overgrazing (especially in Patagonia, and the arid and semi-arid regions); poor irrigation practices leading to salinization; mono-cropping and other poor agricultural practices; and the excessive use of agricultural chemicals (leading to contamination). As a major element of the natural resource base, forestry activities employ about 500,000 people (24,000 of which are small producers) and represent about 2 % of GDP. Forests also provide a wide range of natural habitats while protecting valuable soil and water resources. With the exception of National Parks and small areas of provincial lands (tierras fiscales), all forests and plantations are privately owned. Over 76 % of the native forests are located in the arid, semiarid and sub-humid Bosque Chaqueño (or Chaco). The remaining native forests outside the Chaco are situated in isolated formations in different extremes of the country: about 12 % are found in the northwest s rugged humid sub-tropical forests of Tucumano-Boliviano, 4 % in the northeast province of Misiones, 6 % in the south in the Patagonian Andes and Tierra del Fuego, and less than 1 % in the north-central Espinal. Native Forests 2 Any country s environmental issues can be divided into green (natural resources), brown (pollution), and blue (water resources management). The Government has also engaged the Bank in dialogue on both brown and blue issues, but these are not discussed in this PCN. 3 The Chaco is South America s second largest ecosystem, next only to the Amazon.

3 Officially, the country has a relatively high deforestation rate (estimated at 200,000 ha annually or 0.67 % per year) but is likely much higher. Most forest loss (75%) is taking place in the Chaco, due to massive industrial-scale clearing for the cultivation of soy, cotton and other crops. Deforestation in these areas is often accompanied by social impacts, when the rural poor, many with historical ties to the land but without formal title, are either fenced out of their traditional holdings on which their survival depends, or completely forced out of their homes. Forest loss also affects the hydrologic cycle, destroys biodiversity, and can lead to accelerated soil erosion and loss of soil fertility. The Chaco is also highly degraded as a result of decades of over harvesting of timber, woodland grazing and fires. Measures by the national and provincial governments to reduce deforestation and illegal harvesting in the Chaco have had little effect, and cooperation between federal, provincial and local authorities is lacking. Concerted action is needed to enforce laws and regulations already on the books, protect high biodiversity areas, and conduct outreach to farmers and producers to ensure their practices are environmentally sustainable as well as productive. Plantation Forests Planted forests offer excellent commercial potential for the forestry sector, even though native forests far exceed plantations in physical area. Tree plantations are located mainly in the provinces of Misiones, Corrientes, Entre Rios, Buenos Aires and Santa Fe, with much smaller areas being located in the provinces of Neuquén, Rio Negro, Chubut and Salta/Jujuy. Despite their limited area and distribution, plantations account for 90 % of domestic wood supply, and for all wood exports. Present estimates show that at least 10 million hectares of non-forest land have optimum to intermediate potential for forest plantations. The country has recently developed, but is in the early stages of implementing, a more ambitious plantation forestry strategy. Protected Area Management and Biodiversity Conservation The national protected areas system of Argentina, managed by the Administración de Parques Nacionales (APN), is the oldest in South America. It covers 3.5 million hectares and includes 35 protected areas and 4 natural monuments. These protected areas include mountains, forests and glaciers in Southern Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, a small fraction of the highly threatened Chaco forests, sub-tropical rainforests in the Yungas, and Upper Parana Atlantic Forest, including the spectacular waterfalls of Iguazu National Park. Yet park areas comprise only 1.3 % of the country, falling far short of the internationally accepted 10% minimum required to ensure long-term maintenance of these ecosystems. Moreover, many ecosystems are underrepresented within the National Protected Areas System (SIFAP). The SIFAP includes provincial, municipal, and private protected areas. Together with the national areas they help to increase the protected areas coverage by another 4.5 percent, adding almost 19 million hectares over 360 protected areas. 4 Conservation corridors are also needed to maintain the integrity of ecosystems, ensuring protection of a diversity of habitats, avoiding genetic isolation of plant and animal populations, and precluding fragmentation. Few corridors have been established to date in Argentina, most 4 Burkhart, R Las Areas Protegidas de la Argentina in Brown, A. et al Situación Ambiental de Argentina Fundacion Vida Silvestre Argentina.

4 notably the Corredor Verde in the Upper Parana Atlantic Forest. Other areas targeted for corridors include the Yungas, the Patagonian Atlantic coast and the Parana and Delta waterway. 5 National parks comprise some of Argentina s major tourist attractions. Glaciers and waterfalls provide a spectacular backdrop for tourism and leisure activities, dating as far back as the late 19 th century, in some cases. Several of the oldest parks are well endowed with infrastructure and human resources; however, many are reaching their limits to support tourism sustainably. Other parks are receiving heightened levels of tourism but are unable to maintain adequate levels of protection under these circumstances due to a lack of infrastructure, user services and human resources for management. There is also an increasing recognition of the need for more inclusive development of the parks to avail local communities and indigenous groups in the sharing of economic benefits. Investment in such areas in infrastructure, local development and service provision, as well as capacity-building and environmental education, are needed to both stimulate tourism and growth in rural areas and sustain conservation efforts at the same time. The Institutional and Development Framework The federal government s role in forestry and protected areas is fragmented. Forestry is split between the Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Food (SAGPyA) in the Ministerio de Ecomomia y Producción, and the Secretariat of Environment and Sustainable Development (SAyDS) in the Jefetura de Gabinete de Ministros. Specifically, plantation forestry falls under the Dirección de Forestacion (DF) of SAGPyA, while native forests are the responsibility of the Dirección de Recursos Naturales (DRN) of SAyDS. The Instituto Nacional de Asuntos Indigenas (INAI) under the Ministry of Social Development is responsible for forestry matters on indigenous people s reservations. The National Parks Administration (APN) comes under the Ministry of Tourism. The Sustainable Natural Resources Management Project will be implemented by the primary national agencies of the Government of Argentina with responsibility for native forests, planted forests, and national parks. Component 1, Native Forests and Biodiversity Native Forests Directorate of SAyDS Component 2, Sustainable Plantation Forestry Forestry Directorate (FD) of SAGPyA) Component 3, Protected Areas and Conservation Corridors -- National Parks Administration (APN) Each agency will have its own technical and administrative unit that will be responsible for the technical, financial, and administrative oversight of their component. Technical teams located in each agency unit will be responsible for the direct implementation of project activities. Service providers will be contracted for different sub-components and activities under the conditions described below. Responsibility for NRM falls to the provinces, with the national government playing a policy and support role (with the exception of direct national government management of national parks). 5 Frassetto. A. et al Los Corredores Ecologicos en la Argentina in Brown, A. et al Situación Ambiental de Argentina Fundacion Vida Silvestre Argentina

5 In general, the provincial governments are weak in NRM, particularly in the Chaco. Furthermore, as mentioned above, nearly all resources are owned by the private sector, so sustainable management has to be an approach that is supported by market incentives as much as by government policy or public commitment. The overall policy and financing framework required to strengthen the appropriate roles of the public and private sectors in a broad agenda of NRM is not yet in place Government commitment The GOA s commitment to sustainable and equitable development of forestry, native forests and conservation has been demonstrated during the implementation of the above-mentioned projects under implementation, and the current very broad environment and NRM-related pipeline. Even though country conditions have been difficult, the projects under implementation since the late 1990s have succeeded in improving the federal and provincial policy and legal frameworks, carrying out a national plantation and native forest inventory, generating important applied research, creating the nucleus of a forestry extension service, improving the quality of planting stock and certified seeds, and strengthening institutions and enhancing their capacities to carry out their mandate for conservation and forest management. The Government s interest in a project for the natural resources sector has been confirmed on a number of occasions since 2004: the then Ministry of Production confirmed its interest in plantation forestry in the Country Assistance Strategy (CAS) agreement of 2004, and priorities which emerged from those discussions have been incorporated into the current CAS and the present proposal. 2. Objectives The project development objective of the proposed Sustainable Natural Resources Management Project is to improve the sustainable and efficient management of forest resources, conserve biodiversity in protected areas and forest landscapes,, and integrate small producers into forestry development and conservation. This it would do by: (i) improving the policy and planning frameworks, (ii) strengthening institutional capacity at federal and provincial levels, (iii) upgrading park management capacity, infrastructure and sustainable development opportunities in and around parks, (iv) improving and promoting private forestry information delivery services (v) assisting small and medium-scale farmers, land owners and producers to adopt sustainable forms of forestry, agriculture and agro forestry, (vi) institutionalizing environmental safeguards and incorporating best practices, and (vii) by encouraging more private-sector involvement in service provision.. The main project beneficiaries will be: (i) rural poor and indigenous communities whose livelihoods depend on the natural resource base; (ii) medium- and small-scale producers in the forest sector, with limited access to technology needed for improving productivity; and (iv) the total supply-chain involved in Argentina's nature-based tourism. In addition, the project would aim to bolster the technical capacity and outreach of federal and provincial organizations working in natural resource issues to provide technical, policy and regulatory leadership within the field of natural resource management.

6 3. Rationale for Bank Involvement The current Argentina CAS refers to promoting agricultural growth, reducing rural poverty, and improving environmental management. In addition, the CAS highlighted the importance of the forestry sector, while emphasizing that Argentina's growth has long been, and will continue to be, based in significant part on its tremendous natural comparative advantages. 6 Prior to this proposed loan, the Bank has had a considerable body of experience gained in all the various NRM sectors. Examples are the recently closed Forestry Development Project, the recently closed Native Forests/Protected Area Project, the GEF-Financed Biodiversity Conservation Project and various agriculture-sector projects with elements closely tied to land and water conservation. In addition, the current pipeline includes various operations that are highly complementary to the proposed project, including the Integrated Water Resources Management Project (addressing the "blue" agenda, as per footnote 2), the Matanza-Riachuelo Sustainable Development Project (addressing the "brown" agenda), the GEF-financed Biodiversity Conservation in Productive Forestry Landscapes Project, various smaller NRMrelated GEF medium-sized projects (MSPs) financed through the Decentralized MSP Program, and various biomass-related carbon finance deals to be financed through the Argentina Carbon Facility. This combined experience will not only ensure that realistic and workable proposals are prepared, but also that the underlying issues constraining the potential in these sectors are fully addressed. The proposed project will also provide an important opportunity to foster interinstitutional coordination and collaboration between many of the agencies involved in environmental and natural resources management, such as SAGPyA, SAyDS, APN and provincial authorities in a high-priority area, where poverty rates are high and ecosystem impacts are on the rise. 4. Description The project will focus on several important ecosystems, including the Monte, Dry and Humid Chaco, Patagonian Steppe and Sub-polar Forests, and Upper Parana Atlantic Forest, among others, to carryout the multiple objectives of conservation, sustainable use of natural resources, and rural development. The project will achieve its stated development objective through the following three components: Native Forests and Biodiversity (Executing agency: Secretariat of Environment and Sustainable Development [SAyDS] and provincial cooperators) (Total Cost US $3.19 million) The native forest focal area implemented by SAyDS would include a Technical Assistance Component for preparation of a future sector loan with an emphasis on native forest issues. The structure and mandate of the Native Forests Directorate of SAyDS will be reviewed collaboratively with stakeholders, the aim being to identify an appropriate role and structure for the institution. Lines of cooperation and collaboration would also be worked out with the provinces for native forest management, in order to ensure a cohesive and effective working 6 Argentina Country Assistance Strategy, May 4, 2006, Report No AR, pg. 146.

7 relationship between SAyDS (as a regulatory agency) and those of the provinces (as implementers and enforcers). The policy and regulatory environment of the provincial offices responsible for forestry would also be critically analyzed and, where necessary, adjustments recommended. The preparation studies will establish the groundwork for developing a "national forestry program", including economic incentive systems, governance issues, and other tools needed to reduce deforestation and bring focus and coherency to the country s native forestry program. Sustainable Plantation Forestry (Executing agency: Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Food [SAGPyA] and provincial cooperators) (Total Cost US $33.59 million) The aim of this component would be to (i) establish institutional and policy frameworks conducive to sustainable and shared growth in the sector; (ii) raise forestry sector productivity through efficient gains in the generation, analysis and transfer of strategically important information; and (iii) support the integration of smallholders and small producers into the plantation production cycle. The component will work with the Secretariat of Agriculture, with primary responsibility for plantation forests. In particular, it mainstream environmental considerations into plantation policy and promotion, improve overall policy framework at federal and provincial levels; foster closer links between the federal and provincial forestry administrations, and between them, the private sector and civil society; provide support to demand-driven and competitive research programs; support the expansion of accredited, private sector forestry extension services; facilitate the entry of small producers into the supply chain; and promote best practices among all producers. This component is associated to the recently approved Biodiversity Conservation in Productive Forestry Landscapes Project funded by the GEF (US$7 million) through the IBRD (see below). Protected Areas and Conservation Corridors (Executing agency: National Parks Administration [APN]) (Total Cost US $30.81 million). This component would have the twin objectives of strengthening APN s capacity to manage existing national protected areas and to set the stage for expanding protection to the insufficiently protected and highly-threatened Chaco ecosystem. Specifically, it aims to strengthen management capacity of eleven priority protected areas and to upgrade APN s capacity in Buenos Aires. Infrastructure, training, equipment and incremental costs would be financed in the existing parks, along with the renovation and modernization of APN s historic building in Buenos Aires. The specific Chaco regional focus would bring APN together with national, regional, and local stakeholders in a process to establish the basis for a biological-sustainable use corridor in the Argentine Chaco with potential to link with core areas in the Paraguayan and Bolivian Chaco. Through a process that involves participation by regional stakeholders, support would include developing the legal and policy basis for land use planning within the corridor (at the local and sub-provincial levels) to secure the integrity, viability, and long-term conservation of core areas. The Associated GEF Project The Sustainable Productive Forestry component is to be closely coordinated with a recently approved GEF project, Biodiversity Conservation in Productive Forestry Landscapes, which would focus on mainstreaming biodiversity conservation concepts and strategic environmental planning in the main plantation areas of Argentina. The GEF project would aim to

8 mainstream/integrate environmental work into every day management practice and cover incremental costs of measures to achieve agreed global environmental benefits in the areas of land degradation and biological diversity. It would include an awareness campaign, the preparation of manuals of best practice, training, and incentives for the adoption of best practice. These might include biodiversity corridors, rehabilitation planting of degraded forest with native species, biodiversity mosaics, adjusted forest management practice to encourage biodiversity, habitat creation and tree planting for conservation swaps. 5. Financing Source: ($m.) BORROWER/RECIPIENT International Bank for Reconstruction and Development Global Environment Facility (GEF) 7 Total Implementation The proposed Sustainable Natural Resources Management Project will be implemented by SAGPyA, SAyDS, and APN. The three institutions are familiar with the institutional and fiduciary requirements of the proposed project, which are similar to those of the recently closed Forestry Development Project, Native Forests Project and Biodiversity Conservation Project. By utilizing established human capacity, systems, and procedures, these arrangements will greatly reduce the initial training and costs required to correctly implement the project and will assure much higher quality administration and management. Each agency will perform the FM functions of the component which is to be implemented by the same; comprising budgeting, accounting and reporting including preparation of interim unaudited financial reports (IFR), internal control, and flow of funds. However, to simplify reporting requirements, there will be one set of interim and annual consolidated financial statements. Given the existing capacity and features of the APN unit have the role of coordination on FM and will be in charge of preparation of the consolidated annual and interim financial statements for the project as a whole. For that purpose, SAyDS and SAGPyA will produce the financial information of their components and will send it to APN, which will compile all pieces of information in one financial statement to be audited by the external auditor. Each entity will be accountable for the financial management arrangements of the component under its implementation responsibility and will produce timely financial information to be submitted to the APN unit. 7. Sustainability Institutional Sustainability All institutions involved in the project have improved their budgetary situation and scope of activities over the past few years, in part given the political and financial stability, but also

9 thanks to important efforts directed at capacity building and institutional strengthening. In light of this, the present project has been designed to limit investments to the levels of capacity for execution and sustainability over the long-term of these investments. In the protected areas component the project will work with existing parks under the system. Investments and institutional strengthening components will allow provision of more services and generate more income from park visitation. Working with local communities also diminishes the pressures to the institution from needing to increase the park guard levels when adequate support is achieved. This is also one of the focuses of the new project. With regard to Sustainable Plantation Forestry, beyond the project period, only modest additional expenditures should be required to ensure that project momentum is maintained. Policy and planning will require only minor adjustments over time, while the private sector will be encouraged to take a more active role in research and training of extension agents. Ongoing funding for small and medium producers will be managed within the framework of Law 25,080 and Resolution 800/2005 that are processes already well institutionalized. Financial Sustainability All the components incorporate some aspects of financial sustainability. In particular the protected areas component has a specific focus on tourism and local community economic benefits with investments to promote financial sustainability. The administrative efforts should also improve management capacity and efficiency with existing funding while corporate image activities may also help in attracting new sources of funding internally and internationally. The Native Forests component seeks to involve local actors as partners in implementation and they will be expected to assume greater responsibility for component activities over time. It will also pilot a series of activities in the areas of payment for environmental services, sustainable forestry management, non-timber forest products among other efforts that link the economic aspects of natural resources, generating financially viable alternatives while seeking sustainable use and management of natural resources. Tourism is providing a growing share of the APN budget for protection of the parks system. APN income has tripled since 2002 with some US$10 Million, or a third of its annual budget, coming from its own sources. Visitation to the parks included within the project has quadrupled over the last 10 years with high potential to increase income to manage the system and for improving conditions of local communities, as many of these parks are located in impoverished areas. Prospects for financial sustainability of the Sustainable Production Forestry component are promising because the project aims to enhance conditions for private investment in areas of high potential. Furthermore, partnerships between the federal and provincial governments and between the government and the private sector will spread the financial burden of the project across several institutions, the aim being to reduce the risk of imposing an unsustainable financial burden on the federal and provincial governments. 8. Lessons Learned from Past Operations in the Country/Sector

10 The Native Forests component of the Native Forests and Protected Areas project (LN 4085 AR) was quite successful and attained nearly all its development goals. It worked directly linked with the federal Native Forest Directorate (NFD) which came into being in 1992 (although part of an institutional continuum starting in 1948 through the creation of the former National Forestry Institute or INFONA, that disappeared in 1992). The component contributed significantly to help strengthen a fledgling institution, especially with the development of tools such as the UMSEF and the preparation of the first National Native Forest Inventory. However, experience with the project highlighted the complexity of the issues underlying the sustainable management of privately owned native forests and deforestation in a country as large as Argentina and with a diversity of forest ecosystems. It laid bare the disconnect between the various institutions responsible for native forests, the disconnect between those institutions and stakeholders, the absence of a shared vision at federal and provincial levels vis-à-vis the future role of native forests, and, given the limited capacity of the federal Native Forests Directorate, the importance of developing collaborative partnerships to address native forest issues, especially to urgently and efficiently mitigate the loss of forests resources. The Protected Areas Component of the project focused on increasing the environmental sustainability of key protected areas in the Patagonia region of the country and the design of a modernization plan. The component was initially operated within the ex-secretary of Natural Resources and Human Environment along with the Native Forests Component. However, during implementation the National Parks Administration was transferred to the Ministry of Tourism. The change resulted in administrative difficulties in funds flows between the two agencies. This constraint was resolved by establishing a separate special account and procurement authority for parks, and underscores the necessity for such an arrangement in the present operation which will operate in three different ministries. The execution of works in the parks was initially slow. This was due in part to the lack of involvement of the decentralized parks personnel in the planning and execution of the activities, as well as the economic crisis. The present project has ensured that each of the parks has been visited and consulted with regarding the proposed activities during preparation, and has provided input to the final list of works and activities for the project. A committee including the park managers will be formed during the supervision phase to ensure a seamless connection with the Buenos Aires Headquarters. The Argentina Forestry Development Project (LN 3948) which focused on plantation development and closed in 2006 was also rated as successful. Lessons learnt include the following: (i) working with individual small producers is expensive and logistically challenging and that working with groups was far more effective; (ii) greater involvement of the federal Forestry Directorate would have been beneficial for policy development; (iii) forestry research programs need to be demand driven to ensure that results are applied; (iv) state-led forestry extension services are unlikely to prove sustainable; (v) the use of second tier institutions at field level such as NGOs is a highly effective way of addressing the needs of small producers; (vi) partnerships should be developed with provincial forestry administrations to help the sector move forward at the local level; and (vii) more attention is needed to monitoring and evaluation to assess the real impact of interventions. Lessons learnt from both projects have been taken into account in designing the new operation.

11 9. Safeguard Policies (including public consultation) Safeguard Policies Triggered by the Project Yes No Environmental Assessment (OP/BP/GP 4.01) [X] [ ] Natural Habitats (OP/BP 4.04) [X] [ ] Pest Management (OP 4.09) [X] [ ] Cultural Property (OP 4.11) [X] [ ] Involuntary Resettlement (OP/BP 4.12) [X] [ ] Indigenous Peoples (OP 4.10) [X] [ ] Forests (OP/BP 4.36) [X] [ ] Safety of Dams (OP/BP 4.37) [ ] [X] Projects in Disputed Areas (OP/BP/GP 7.60) * [ ] [X] Projects on International Waterways (OP/BP/GP 7.50) [ ] [X] 10. List of Factual Technical Documents 1. Braier, G Análisis de la visión de los inversores externos y nacionales sobre las oportunidades y riesgos del negocio foresto-industrial en Argentina. FAO. Rome. 2. Burgos, Adriana Componente Entrenamiento y Construcción de Capacidades. Educación ambiental y Alcance. SAGPyA/PDF. Buenos Aires. 3. De Negri, Gerardo and González Alejandro. Cátedra de Economía Forestal. Universidad Nacional de La Plata Evaluación económica de modelos forestales productivos que apliquen prácticas favorecedoras o conservadoras de la biodiversidad y análisis de la actual política de incentivos para estas actividades. SAGPyA/PDF. Buenos Aires. 4. Elizondo, Mario Análisis Institucional legal en relación con la biodiversidad en plantaciones forestales. SAGPyA/PDF. Buenos Aires. 5. Estades, Cristian Informe de Taller Biodiversidad en Plantaciones Forestales. Workshop held August 25, 2005, Buenos Aires, Argentina. 6. Grupo de Ecología Forestal. Laboratorio de Teledetección y SIG. INTA EEA Bariloche APN. Delegación Regional Patagonia Información de Base sobre Biodiversidad y Plantaciones Forestales Modulo NO de Patagonia. SAGPyA/PDF. Buenos Aires. 7. Morales, Eduardo Research, Technology Transfer and Extension-Forest Development Project Argentina-Final Report. FAO. Rome. * By supporting the proposed project, the Bank does not intend to prejudice the final determination of the parties claims on the disputed areas

12 8. Programa de Ecología Forestal.Depto de Ecología y Ciencias Ambientales. Universidad Maimónides Línea de Base en Biodiversidad en las provincias de Misiones, Corrientes y Entre Ríos. SAGPyA/PDF. Buenos Aires. 9. Rodríguez, Guillermo Preparation Stage of the Sustainable Forest Management Project in Argentina Institutional Strengthening Component Final Report. FAO. Rome. 10. Wood, G Evaluación Económico-Financiera Del Componente C Del Proyecto Forestal De Desarrollo. SAGPyA/PDF. Buenos Aires. 11. Contact point Contact: Robert Ragland Davis Title: Sr Forestry Spec. Tel: (202) rdavis1@worldbank.org 12. For more information contact: The InfoShop The World Bank 1818 H Street, NW Washington, D.C Telephone: (202) Fax: (202) Web: