Concern has been expressed in various international fora and publications that the trade and agricultural policies of industrialized countries of the North were directly contributing to undesirable deforestation in the South. This hypothesis suggested that reforms in the international trading system, and of trade and agricultural policies in the industrialized countries of the North, could contribute to slowing unnecessary tropical deforestation. The authors of this book attempt to examine this issue in the light of the case studies that were summarized in Chapter 3.