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Bridging the Policy and Investment Gap for Payment for Ecosystem Services: Learning from Costa Rican Experience and Roads Ahead
(Global Green Growth Institute, Seúl (Corea del Sur), 2016-10)
Between 2000 to 2010, forests were lost at an average of 5.2 million hectares per year across the globe (FAO 2010). Though the drivers of deforestation and forest degradation vary, agricultural expansion is responsible for ...
Rapid participatory appraisal for the design and evaluation of payment for ecosystem services: An introduction to an assessment guide.
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2017-04)
Risk management in agriculture Ongoing studies with coffee farmers in Costa Rica affected by coffee leaf rust
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2015-09)
Simulation of potential banana photosynthesis in the Atlantic Zone of Costa Rica
(IICA, San José (Costa Rica), 1991-07)
Para hacer una evaluación cuantitativa de la aptitud de la tierra para el cultivo del banano, sería útil disponer de un modelo de simulación. Por lo tanto, como primer paso para su diseño, se desarrolló un modelo de ...
Forecast models of coffee leaf rust symptoms and signs based on identified microclimatic combinations in coffee-based agroforestry systems in Costa Rica
(2020)
Coffee leaf rust is a polycyclic disease that causes severe epidemics impacting yield over several years. For this reason, since the 1960s, more than 20 models have been developed to predict different indicators of the ...
Adaptive capacity, drought and the performance of community-based drinking water organizations in Costa Rica
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2015)
Community-based drinking water organizations (CBDWOs) are the most important providers of water in rural areas of the developing world. They are responsible for coping with future threats due to climate change, besides ...
Don't tell me what to do, tell me who to follow!: field experiment evidence on voluntary donations
(Environment for Development, 2010-06)
We conducted a field experiment in a protected area to explore the effects of conformity to a social reference versus a comparable, but imposed, suggested donation. As observed before, we see visitors conforming to the ...
Marine Protected Areas: Lessons from Costa Rica and Tanzania
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2015-07-22)
Both Tanzania’s and Costa Rica’s beaches provide important nesting sites for endangered sea turtles. Poaching of eggs by local people for food or for sale presents a major threat to these species, as do other predators. ...
Unintended Effects of Targeting an Environmental Rebate
(Springer, Berlín (Alemania), 2015)
When designing schemes such as conditional cash transfers or payments for ecosystem services, the choice of whom to select and whom to exclude is critical.We incentivize and measure actual contributions to an environmental ...
Marine protected areas in Costa Rica: How do artisanal fishers respond?
(2017)
Costa Rica is considering expanding their marine protected areas (MPAs) to conserve marine resources. Due to the importance of households’ responses to an MPA in defining the MPA’s ecological and economic outcomes, this ...