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Cocoa roadmap summary. The road to sustainable cocoa growing [2022-2032]
(Centro de Cooperación Internacional en Investigación Agrícola para el Desarrollo (CIRAD), 2022)
The coming years will be crucial for the cocoa value chain. The main issue is not just whether we will still be able to eat chocolate,
but how we can support a sector on which between 40 and 50 million people depend ...
Strategic plan 2003-2012: a sustainable and competitive, rural sector for Tropical America
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2004)
Forest pests in Central America: handbook
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica). Programa de Producción y Desarrollo Agropecuario Sostenido, 1992)
Domestic demand for food in Costa Rica: a double-hurdle analysis
(Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE), 1997)
This paper analyzed the structure of domestic food demand in Costa Rica at the level of the household, given prices, income, location, and household size. Using data from the 1987/88 National Household Income and Expenditure ...
Linking plant strategies and ecosystem function: an assessment of the contribution of biodiversity to neotropical grassland productivity
(2015-11-03)
To understand the diversity of strategies of resource use at the species and community level of co-existing species in semi-natural grasslands, I used three differentapproaches: a) the comparison of above-ground net primary ...
Database management applications in forestry research
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 1988)
This book is product of a workshop that was designed to provide people interested and/or working in MPTS data bases with and overview of the MIRA data base. It also provided an opportunity to get updated information on ...
Technical guidelines for the design and management of participatory connectivity conservation and restoration projects at the landscape scale in Latin America
(2016)
This document recounts the authors’ experience in participatory conservation processes that seek terrestrial biodiversity connectivity. It synthesizes at least a decade of research and practice. Its documentation of this ...
A natural ecosystem analog approach to the design of a successional crop system for tropical forest environments
(Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE), Turrialba (Costa Rica), 1980)
A farm typology for the Atlantic Zone
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica). Atlantic Zone Programme Agricultural University Wageningen, Wageningen (Países Bajos) Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadería, San José (Costa Rica), 1997)
In land use analysis it is often necessary to generalize individual farMON into a number of farm types. In this research the farm typology is based on the physical production possibilities presented by farm size and soil ...