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[Economic Impact] Incentive to deforestation to prove land occupation. Valuable economic forest resources are lost. [Equity Impact] This option is usually not open to large corporations. Small farmers may benefit by obtaining land ownership but by sacrificing potential forest benefits that could have been obtained in absence of deforestation. [Environmental Impact] Deforestation is an effective way to prove occupation. Incentive to destructive environmental practices. [Policy] 
Land ownership is contingent on demonstration of occupation
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