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Environmental and Economic Impacts of Growing Certified Organic Coffee in Colombia
(2015-02)
According to advocates, eco-certification can improve developing country farmers’ environmental and economic performance. However, these notional benefits can be undercut by self-selection: the tendency of relatively wealthy ...
Qeco-Quantitative ecology software: A collaborative approach
(2010-01)
Qeco is a statistical software for analysis of ecological data. It has a simple and user-friendly interface that makes the difference in the experience of data analysis. It implements state-of-the-art statistical and ...
Belize Cattle Farms : potential to produce high value timber
(Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE), 2011)
It addresses both landowners and the country, which could obtain more environmental goods and services, since, by incorporating and managing more trees in livestock farms, farmers can improve the yields and productivity ...
ShadeMotion 2.2: simulation of tree shades in horizontal or tilted plots
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2010)
The use of Ecosystem-based Adaptation practices by smallholder farmers in Central America
(Elsevier, Ámsterdam (Países Bajos), 2017)
There is growing interest in promoting the use of Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) practices to help smallholder farmers adapt to climate change, however there is limited information on how commonly these practices are ...
The importance of agricultural land uses in the provision of ecosystem services. A gender perspective in Nicaragua
(CIRAD, Montpellier (France), 2019)
Poverty-environment dividends of rural community enterprises: insights from a cross-sectoral study in Latin America and the Caribbean
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2010-03)
Over the past years, the development of rural community enterprises (RCE) has been advocated as a means to achieve the dual goal of poverty reduction and environmental conservation. However, there is little scientific ...