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The isabela fire: galapagos islands
(IICA, San José (Costa Rica), 1987-01)Entre los meses de marzo y mayo de 1985 varios incendios ocurrieron en la lsla Isabela, la mayor de las islas del Archipiélago de las Galápagos. El primero de estos incendios comenzó en una zona agrícola el 28 de febrero ... -
The long-run relationship between CO2 emissions and economic activity in a small open economy: Uruguay 1882 - 2010
(Instituto de Economía, Montevideo (Uruguay), 2015-09)The long-run relationship between carbon dioxide emissions from energy use and economic activity level is estimated for Uruguay between 1882 and 2010. We apply cointegration techniques and estimate a Vector Error Correction ... -
The Motivation for Organic Grain Farming in the United States: Profits, Lifestyle, or the Environment?
(2012)The objective of this research is to identify and quantify the motivations for organic grain farming in the United States. Survey data of US organic grain producers were used in regression models to find the statistical ... -
The nature of self-incompatibility
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The Neguev revisited: a study of the agricultural changes between 1987 and 1996 in the Neguev settlement, Costa Rica
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica). Atlantic Zone Programme Agricultural University Wageningen, Wageningen (Países Bajos) Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadería, San José (Costa Rica), 1997)The main focus of REPOSA is "development of an interdisciplinary methodology for the analysis and evaluation of ecologically and economically sustainable land use" (Jansen et al., 1996:1). The research is based on a ... -
The operational plan: a useful tool for improving management of protected wildlands
(CATIE, 1982)También en microficha *IICA, San José (Costa Rica). -
The performance of female calves fed limited milk and four rations at moblissa, Guyana
(IICA, San José (Costa Rica), 1991-01)En un ensayo con un diseño de bloques completos al azar se comparó el desempeño de terneras, criadas durante 21 semanas con cuatro raciones distintas pero isocalóricas. Las cuatro raciones se prepararon con afrecho de ... -
The pineapple in the atlantic zone of Costa Rica: a study on the sustainability of the cropping system of pineapple in the Atlantic Zone of Costa Rica
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The place of agro-forestry in managing tropical forests
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The Plant Genetics Resources Project at CATIE, Turrialba, Costa Rica
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The plant protection policy situation in Central America
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The political economy of private transport regulation in Costa Rica
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2010)Esta tesis caracteriza la economía política de la regulación del sector transporte costarricense mediante el análisis de un conjunto de cinco políticas: una revisión técnica vehicular, impuestos de importación de vehículos, ... -
The positive association between natural vegetation, native coccinellids and functional diversity of aphidophagous coccinellid communities in alfalfa
(2021-01)1. A greater taxonomic and functional diversity of natural enemies in agroecosystems is frequently positively associated with more effective pest control, due to the complementarity of species or traits. But this diversity ... -
The role of middlemen in potato production in Cochabamba, Bolivia: financial aspects of sharecropping
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 1980)Overgeneralizing with regard to social and economic structures can cause serious problems in the understanding of peasant production systems and lead to the prescription of inappropiate alternative strategies. The financial ... -
The role of payments for environmental services in Costa Rica’s policymix
(2013-10-15)Payments for Environmental Services (PES) and conservation policies. A PES is an economic instrument that addresses an environmental externality through a variable payment, cash or in-kind. In here, providers or sellers ... -
The Rural Household Multiple Indicator Survey, data from 13,310 farm households in 21 countries
(2020-02)The Rural Household Multiple Indicator Survey (RHoMIS) is a standardized farm household survey approach which collects information on 758 variables covering household demographics, farm area, crops grown and their ... -
The sad story of the rejected bananas used as cattle feed: a study in the Atlantic Zone of Costa Rica
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica). Atlantic Zone Programme | Agricultural University Wageningen, Wageningen (Países Bajos) | Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadería, San José (Costa Rica), 1995-01)Costa Rica produces about a million tons of bananas for export. Changing from year to year, 20 to 30% is rejected for export. These bananas could be used as a supplement for cattle feeding. The purpose of this study was ... -
The shape and size of cocoa beans
(Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA), 1976-04)Se presenta una definición cuantitativa de la forma y tamaño de almendras de cacao, al estado húmedo, basada en su longitud, ancho, profundidad y las superficies planas y transversales, la última obtenida mediante un corte ...
