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Ecología de las semillas y las plántulas e Carapa guianensis
(Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA), 1983-10)
Carapa guianensis (Meliaceae) es una especie arbórea sub-dominante del bosque superhúmedo maduro del noreste de Costa Rica. Los árboles florecen en setiembre y producen frutos maduros el siguiente mes de mayo. La libación ...
Incidencia y algunos aspectos ecológicos del virus del mosaico severo del frijol de costa en dos sistemas de cultivo en Costa Rica
(Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA), 1982-01)
La incidencia del virus del mosaico severo del frijol de costa (cowpea severe niosaic virus) es similar tanto en el cultivo individual de esta especie como en su asociación con maíz. En ambos sistemas de cultivo se registró ...
Colección internacional de café del CATIE
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica). Departamento de Agricultura y Agroforestería, 2021)
La colección de café del CATIE empezó en Turrialba, Costa Rica, a partir de los años cincuenta. Actualmente es la colección más grande de Coffea arabica en el continente Americano por su amplia diversidad genética, ...
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. ...
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 ...
Permanence of PES and the role of social context in the Regional Integrated Silvo-pastoral Ecosystem Management Project in Costa Rica
(Elsevier, Ámsterdam (Países Bajos), 2021-07)
We present rare, empirical evidence on the permanence of land use changes induced by a payments for ecosystem services (PES) program. A follow-up study was conducted a decade after the end of the Regional Integrated ...
Credit, Insurance, and Farmers’ Liability: Evidence from a Lab in the Field Experiment with Coffee Farmers in Costa Rica.
(2017-03)
To cope with losses from extreme hydro-meteorological events, governments typically implement disaster relief programs and offer debt relief to affected parties. Governments in developing countries have made extensive use ...
The Effect of Hydro-Meteorological Emergencies on Internal Migration
(Elsevier, Amsterdam (Paises Bajos), 2015-03)
We estimate the effect of hydro-meteorological emergencies on internal migration in Costa Rica during 1995–2000. We find that, on average, emergencies significantly increase average migration. However, we also find that ...
Heterogeneous Local Spillovers from Protected Areas in Costa Rica
(2017)
Spillovers can significantly reduce or enhance the net effects of land-use policies, yet there exists little rigorous evidence concerning their magnitudes. We examine how Costa Rica’s national parks affect deforestation ...