Forests, cattle, pastures and crops; The different" logics" of livestock production. The role of
market forces in the cattle-forest relationship. Government subsidies for livestock and public …

PPROXIMATELY 550,000 kM2 of tropical dry forest covered the Pacific coast of
Mesoamerica at the time that the Spaniards arrived. Today less than 2 percent of this forest …

This study analyses seven factors used to explain the conversion of forest to pasture in
Central America between 1979 and 1994: 1) favorable markets for livestock products, 2) …

An ethnobotanical survey was carried out among a campesino community in a Costa Rican
montane cloud forest. Campesino families were interviewed about how they used …

This study focuses on agro-ecological zonation along an altitudinal gradient in the montane
oak forest belt of the Los Santos Forest Reserve in Costa Rica. Above 2,000 m three major …

A large number of studies on human impact on tropical mountains underline the vast
destructive and often irreversible effects that settlements and inappropriate land use …

This article discusses Costa Rica's policies and institutions created by the state to
redistribute land during the 1960s and 1970s, when Latin American was implementing …

Abstract In Costa Rica, as in much of the world, sustainable development has become the
dominant development paradigm. Sustainable development seeks to reconcile the …

El estilo predominante de agricultura en Centroamerica, la de laderas, encara una crisis
creciente como resultado de la deforestacion, la perdida de diversidad biologica, el …

Este artículo examina las relaciones establecidas entre el campesinado, la política de
tierras y de conservación de bosques en Costa Rica entre las décadas de 1960 y 1980. Su …