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Costa Rican farmers' experience with the introduction of timber trees in their coffee plantations
(1999)
Los agricultores de Pérez Zeledón, Costa Rica tienen una clara preferencia por Eucalyptus deglupta, Terminalia amazonia y T. ivorensis como maderables para sombra en sus plantaciones de café. Gmelina arborea fue identificado ...
NOx emissions and productive structure in Spain: An input–output perspective
(Instituto de Economia Montevideo (Uruguay), 2016-02)
We analyse the NOx gas emissions of different productive sectors in Spain. Using input–output analysis, we study all sectors as subsystems of the economy and classify them according to the explanatory factors of
their ...
Advantages, disadvantages and desirable characteristics of shade trees for coffee, cacao and tea
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 1987)
A review is made of the ecological interactions that occur between shade trees and the perennial crops: coffee (Coffea spp. L.), cacao (Theobroma cacao L.) and tea (Camellia sinensis L. Kuntze). These interactions are ...
Análisis de la gobernanza en NAMA ganaderas en países de América Latina y El Caribe.
(Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE), 2021-01)
El presente documento analiza los esquemas de gobernanza en las Medidas de Mitigación Nacionalmente Apropiadas (NAMA, por sus siglas en inglés) del sector ganadero de República Dominicana, Costa Rica, Honduras y Guatemala. ...
Ecosystem biodiversity in lowland tropical rain forests of Central America: characterisation and applications to land management
(CATIE, 1999)
El nivel de ecosistemas es importante en la medición de biodiversidad y en la planificación tanto para la conservación, como para el manejo forestal. No obstante, estudios sistemáticos de la biodiversidad de ecosistemas ...
A Contingent Valuation Approach to Estimating Regulatory Costs: Mexico’s Day without Driving Program
(Resources for the Future, Washington, D.C. (Estados Unidos), 2015-05)
Little is known about the cost of environmental regulations such as residential zoning restrictions and recycling mandates that target households instead of firms, partly because of significant methodological and data ...
Roads & SDGs, tradeoffs and synergies: learning from Brazil’s Amazon in distinguishing frontiers
(2017-10-09)
To inform the search for SDG synergies in infrastructure provision, and to reduce SDG tradeoffs, the authors show that road impacts on Brazilian Amazon forests have varied significantly across settings. Forest loss varied ...
El uso racional del frijol alado en los sistemas de cultivos, para mejorar la nutrición de pequeños productores de los trópicos húmedos
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 1978)
Agroforestry and soil conservation: adoption and profitability in El Salvador
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 1997)