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Book Synopsis Sustainable Agriculture in Central America by : Jan P. de Groot
Download or read book Sustainable Agriculture in Central America written by Jan P. de Groot and published by Springer. This book was released on 1997-07-14 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agricultural development in Central America is based on extensive growth, supported by macroeconomic policies that marginalize small peasants. Deforestation, erosion and resource depletion are particularly severe. This book offers a comprehensive review of the perspectives for state policies and local action to enhance sustainable agriculture. Macroeconomic conditions and institutional arrangements for the establishment of sustainable production systems in different eco-regional settings (hillsides, humid tropics, frontier areas) are discussed, as well as policy instruments to improve property rights, management rules and financial mechanisms to enhance sustainable resource use.
Book Synopsis Agrarian Policies and Deforestation in Central America by : Elizabeth Campisi
Download or read book Agrarian Policies and Deforestation in Central America written by Elizabeth Campisi and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Livestock and Deforestation in Central America in the 1980s and 1990s by : David Kaimowitz
Download or read book Livestock and Deforestation in Central America in the 1980s and 1990s written by David Kaimowitz and published by IICA Biblioteca Venezuela. This book was released on 1995 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Poverty, Natural Resources, and Public Policy in Central America by : Sheldon Annis
Download or read book Poverty, Natural Resources, and Public Policy in Central America written by Sheldon Annis and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Suggests specific guidelines for linking responsible environmental management and economic development. Includes proposals for international peace parks, fostering conservation institutions, and modifying nontraditional agricultural exports"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.
Book Synopsis Agrarian Policies in Central America by : Wim Pelupessy
Download or read book Agrarian Policies in Central America written by Wim Pelupessy and published by Macmillan Publishing Company. This book was released on 2000-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Macroeconomic adjustment and sectoral reforms have strongly modified the framework for rural development in Central America. Local producers have only received marginal benefits from the liberalization of markets and the privatization of financial and commercial services. This book offers a structural analysis of agrarian policies in Central America and their impact on production conditions and farmers' welfare. It argues that the segmentation of rural factor and product markets and institutional failures have imposed severe constraints on the effectiveness of the applied policy instruments.
Book Synopsis Land, Power, and Poverty by : Taylor & Francis Group
Download or read book Land, Power, and Poverty written by Taylor & Francis Group and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, Land, Power, and Poverty, explores the development of the rigid and unequal structures of rural Central American society and the role in the conflicts of five governments of the region Guatemala, Costa Rica, Honduras, El Salvador, and Nicaragua.
Book Synopsis Land Tenure and Agrarian Reform in Central America by :
Download or read book Land Tenure and Agrarian Reform in Central America written by and published by Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE. This book was released on 1983 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Forest Resource Policy in Latin America by : Ronnie de Camino
Download or read book Forest Resource Policy in Latin America written by Ronnie de Camino and published by Inter-American Development Bank. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Forest Resource Policy in Latin America" gathers the thinking of a score of experts on sustainable use and management of forests, including incentives for investment. The authors tackle the thorny social issues of property rights, deforestation, and forest management and ownership by indigenous people and take a hard look at the trade and environmental issues in forest production that will affect future directions for sustainable forestry development in Latin America. Some argue that the main opportunity to conserve natural forests lies in recognizing and paying for the environmental services they provide. In addition, compensatory measures such as the establishment and better management of strictly protected areas appear to be the best tools to delay the loss of ecosystems and species. Alternative forest concession policies and trade and environmental issues in forest production are also analyzed.
Book Synopsis Trees, People and Power by : Peter Utting
Download or read book Trees, People and Power written by Peter Utting and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behind the headlines about the loss of tropical forests in Latin America lies a complex and fascinating story of the social pressures which cause it. Trees, People and Power looks at the various groups, interests and conflicts involved, and explores the repercussions for forestry, the environment and the livelihoods of the rural and urban poor. Until the social and political dimensions of deforestation and forest protection schemes are understood, measures to prevent or slow deforestation are likely to involve technical interventions which will prove ineffective in the long run, and may well result in further impoverishment and environmental degradation. Peter Utting takes a critical look at the experience of forest protection and tree planting in a number of countries and considers how social and political factors affect the feasability of such schemes. Many environmental projects and programmes have failed to balance concerns for the environment with those of human welfare. Until they do, it is unrealistic to expect any significant progress towards sustainable development. Peter Utting is a senior researcher coordinator with the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development. He is the author of Economic Adjustment under the Sandinistas (UNRISD, 1991) and Economic Reform and Third World Socialism (Macmillan, 1992). Originally published in 1993
Book Synopsis Climate change and agriculture in Central America and the Andean Region by : Thomas, Timothy S.
Download or read book Climate change and agriculture in Central America and the Andean Region written by Thomas, Timothy S. and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2018-11-29 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate change poses a threat to food security and nutrition, largely through its impacts on agricultural production. To help developing countries identify where adaptation measures are most needed, IFPRI conducted a multiyear study to assess the potential impact of climate change on the agriculture sector through 2050, taking into account the likely landscape of political and economic challenges that policy makers will face. The study integrated results from climate and economic models, and included detailed biophysical and bioeconomic analyses of Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica in Central America and Colombia and Peru in the Andean region of South America. Analysis was done at a 50-kilometer resolution for a detailed distribution of the direct climate shocks, and at the country level to show aggregate economic shocks.
Book Synopsis Environment Under Fire by : Daniel Faber
Download or read book Environment Under Fire written by Daniel Faber and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Social Origins and Impact of Deforestation in Central America by : Peter Utting
Download or read book The Social Origins and Impact of Deforestation in Central America written by Peter Utting and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Costs, Benefits, and Farmer Adoption of Agroforestry by : Dean Current
Download or read book Costs, Benefits, and Farmer Adoption of Agroforestry written by Dean Current and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1995 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bibliography pp. 195-209.
Book Synopsis Agrarian Policies in Central America by : W. Pelupessy
Download or read book Agrarian Policies in Central America written by W. Pelupessy and published by Springer. This book was released on 1999-12-13 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Macroeconomic adjustment and sectoral reforms have strongly modified the framework for rural development in Central America. This book offers a structural analysis of agrarian policies in Central America and their impact on production conditions and farmers' welfare.
Book Synopsis Hoofprints on the Forest by : Douglas R. Shane
Download or read book Hoofprints on the Forest written by Douglas R. Shane and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Agrarian Extractivism in Latin America by : Ben M. McKay
Download or read book Agrarian Extractivism in Latin America written by Ben M. McKay and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-30 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amid the growing calls for a turn towards sustainable agriculture, this book puts forth and discusses the concept of agrarian extractivism to help us identify and expose the predatory extractivist features of dominant agricultural development models. The concept goes beyond the more apparent features of monocultures and raw material exports to examine the inherent logic and underlying workings of a model based on the appropriation of an ever-growing range of commodified and non-commodified human and non-human nature in an extractivist fashion. Such a process erodes the autonomy of resourcedependent working people, dispossesses the rural poor, exhausts and expropriates nature, and concentrates value in a few hands as a result of the unquenchable drive for profit by big business. In many instances, such extractivist dynamics are subsidized and/or directly supported by the state, while also dependent on the unpaid, productive, and reproductive labour of women, children, and elders, exacerbating unequal class, gender, and generational relations. Rather than a one-size-fits-all definition of agrarian extractivism, this collection points to the diversity of extractivist features of corporate-led, external-input-dependent plantation agriculture across distinct socio-ecological formations in Latin America. This timely challenge to the destructive dominant models of agricultural development will interest scholars, activists, researchers, and students from across the fields of critical development studies, rural studies, environmental and sustainability studies, and Latin American studies, among others.
Book Synopsis Tropical Forest Conservation by : Douglas Southgate
Download or read book Tropical Forest Conservation written by Douglas Southgate and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998-06-04 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attempts to halt the destruction of rain forests and other natural habitats in the tropics have met with little success. In particular, national parks, like those found in wealthy nations, have proven difficult to establish in Africa, Asia, and South and Central America. More often than not, people inhabiting areas designated for protection resist being told by outsiders that they must change how and where they live. Alternative approaches, frequently embodied in integrated conservation and development projects (ICDPs), are now being pursued. The goal is to address local communities' desires for improved standards of living while simultaneously meeting conservation objectives. Nature-based tourism and sustainable harvesting of forest products are the centerpieces of ICDPs and related initiatives. This book assesses the viability of conservation strategies predicated on the adoption of environmentally sound enterprises in and around threatened habitats. Drawing on research in Brazil, Costa Rica, Ecuador and Peru and on his extensive experience working in South and Central America and the Caribbean, the author demonstrates that it is rare for forest dwellers to derive much benefit from ecotourism, the extraction of timber and other commodities, or the collection of samples used in pharmaceutical research. Often these activities are simply unprofitable. Even when they are profitable, the benefits tend not to accrue locally, but instead are captured by outside firms and individuals who can provide important services like safe and reliable transportation. The author contends that human capital formation and related productivity-enhancing investment is the only sure path to economic progress and habitat conservation.
