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    • Andisol formation in a holocene beach ridge plain under the humid tropical climate of the Atlantic Coast of Costa Rica 

      Nieuwenhuyse, A.; Jongmans, A.G.; Breemen, N. van; CATIE – Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza, Turrialba, Costa Rica. Atlantic Zone Programme; Agricultural University Wageningen, Wageningen (Países Bajos); Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadería, San José (Costa Rica) [MAG] (CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica). Atlantic Zone Programme Agricultural University Wageningen, Wageningen (Países Bajos) Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadería, San José (Costa Rica), 1993)
      Soil formation has been studied in relation with time in a 5000-year old chronosequence on volcaniclastic beach ridges of the perhumid tropical Atlantic coast of Costa Rica. All soils are under tropical rainforest. Drainage ...
    • Intermediate trade in cattle, fruits, roots and tubers in the Atlantic Zone of Costa Rica 

      Logtestijn, M. van; CATIE – Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza, Turrialba, Costa Rica. Atlantic Zone Programme; Agricultural University Wageningen, Wageningen (Países Bajos); Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadería (MAG), San José (Costa Rica). (CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica). Atlantic Zone Programme Agricultural University Wageningen, Wageningen (Países Bajos) Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadería, San José (Costa Rica), 1993)
      The objective of the study was to collect concrete information about the actors and their performance in the different marketing channels of some agricultural products cultivated in the Atlantic Zone of Costa Rica. I ...
    • Intervenors intervened: organizational predicaments and institutional contradictions in the production of export plantains in the Atlantic Zone of Costa Rica: Field Report - Atlantic Zone Programme (CATIE-AUW-MAG) no. 88 

      Veerchoor, G.; CATIE – Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza, Turrialba, Costa Rica Atlantic Zone Programme; Agricultural University Wageningen, Wageningen (Países Bajos); Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadería (MAG), San José (Costa Rica) (CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica). Atlantic Zone Programme Agricultural University Wageningen, Wageningen (Países Bajos) Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadería, San José (Costa Rica), 1992)
      The aim of this paper is to cast some light onto the nature of intervention processes. In particular, the article wishes to counter the view -popular in much of the literature on rural development- that there exists a ...
    • Investigation about the farm activities of women and the importance of their activities for the family income in El Indio 

      Hooijschuur, K.; CATIE – Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza, Turrialba, Costa Rica. Atlantic Zone Programme; Agricultural University Wageningen, Wageningen (Países Bajos); Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadería, Turrialba (Costa Rica) (CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica). Atlantic Zone Programme Agricultural University Wageningen, Wageningen (Países Bajos) Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadería, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 1991)
      This is the report of an investigation, done in the period 25th June till 19th July 1991, to find out what the activities are of women in agriculture and animal husbandry and the importance of women activities for the total ...
    • Land use in rio Jiménez linked to soil types with the encuesta general and aerial photographs: Field Report - CATIE. Atlantic Zone Programme no. 91 

      Veltman, B.; CATIE - Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza, Turrialba, Costa Rica; Agricultural University Wageningen, Wageningen (Países Bajos); Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadería, San José (Costa Rica) [MAG] (CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica) Agricultural University Wageningen, Wageningen (Países Bajos) Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadería, San José (Costa Rica), 1993)
      The district of Rio Jiménez is located in the Atlantic Zone of Costa Rica. It is one of the three areas of study in the Atlantic Zone Progran. The other areas are Cocorí and the Neguev. These are all found in the northern ...
    • Plantation forestry in the northern atlantic zone of Costa Rica 

      Brouwershaven, A.S. van; CATIE – Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza, Turrialba, Costa Rica Atlantic Zone Programme; Agricultural University Wageningen, Wageningen (Países Bajos); Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadería, San José (Costa Rica) [MAG] (CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica). Atlantic Zone Programme Agricultural University Wageningen, Wageningen (Países Bajos) Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadería, San José (Costa Rica), 1993)
      In order to make a land use planning you have to know the functioning of current Land Use Types (LUT). Plantation forestry is a LUT in the northern Atlantic Zone of Costa Rica and this study describes the way it is currently ...
    • Soil physical properties of a fertile, poorly drained soil and their adequacy for use in quantified land evaluation 

      Mantell, S.; CATIE – Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza, Turrialba, Costa Rica. Atlantic Zone Programme; Agricultural University Wageningen, Wageningen (Países Bajos); Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadería (MAG), San José (Costa Rica). (CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica). Atlantic Zone Programme Agricultural University Wageningen, Wageningen (Países Bajos) Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadería, San José (Costa Rica), 1993)
      From June to September a study was carried out in the Atlantic Zone of Costa Rica. For modelling three broad categories of soil have been distinguished in the zone; the (1) fertile and (2) unfertile, well drained soils and ...
    • Soils, water and nutrients in a forest ecosystem in Suriname 

      Poels, R.L.H.; Agricultural University Wageningen, Wageningen (Países Bajos) (Agricultural University, Wageningen (Países Bajos), 1987)
      Water and nutrient flows were measured in catchments on strongly weathered loamy sediments of the Zanderij formation in Suriname under undisturbed forest and forest silviculturally treated whereby 40 % of the biomass was ...
    • The why of decisions taken by farmers in the Agrimaga settlement 

      Akkermans, J; Agricultural University Wageningen, Wageningen (Países Bajos); Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadería, San José (Costa Rica) (CATIE, 1993)
    • To borden or not to borden: developments in dairy farming in the Atlantic Zone of Costa Rica 

      Ottens, J.J; Agricultural University Wageningen, Wageningen (Países Bajos); Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadería, San José (Costa Rica). (CATIE, 1987)
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