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Effects of Erythrina poeppigiana pruning residues on soil organic matter in organic coffee plantations
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica) University of Wales, Bangor (RU). School of Agricultural and Forest Sciences, 2005)
The effects of Erythrina poeppigiana pruning residue effects on soil organic matter were investigated with three different objectives. Firstly, to study the effects of proximity of this shade tree on soil characteristics ...
How does increased vegetable varietal choice influence coffee farmers’ on-farm diversification strategies in the face of changing climate conditions?
(Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE), 2016)
Crop diversification strategies are considered promising for Central American coffee farmers who are looking for solutions to confront rapidly changing climate conditions. Vegetable crops hold potential for diversification ...
Soil biogeochemical patterns in the Talamanca foothills, Costa Rica: local soil knowledge and implications for agroecosystemsTesis de maestría
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica) University of Idaho, Moscow, ID (EUA), 2008)
3) Quantify the base cation nutrient reserves in aboveground and belowground pools in a cacao agroforestry and a shifting cultivation system to make predications about longâ™\term sustainability and 4) Utilize a ...
Land use, hydrological processes and ecosystem services in the upper Reventazón watershed, Costa Rica
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2012)
Costa Rica experienced large scale deforestation between the 1940s and 1980s. Due to the rapid loss of forest, the Costa Rican government initiated the Pagos para Servicios Ambientales, or Environmental Service Payments ...
Participatory research for validation and dissemination of agroforestry technologies to small farmers
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2000)
El principal objetivo del proyecto es evaluar un acercamiento en la investigación participativa para el establecimiento de sistemas agroforestales en pequeñas parcelas en Rio Guayabo, Costa Rica. Esperando lograr un ...
Local knowledge regarding trade-offs among coffee productivity and other ecosystem services in a range of different agroforestry systems in Central America
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2012)
This thesis gathers and analyses the local knowledge regarding ecosystem services in coffee producing regions of Costa Rica, Guatemala and Nicaragua, and compares this knowledge across a range of farming conditions. The ...
Tropical bird assemblages in coffee agroforestry systems: exploring the relationships between landscape context, structural complexity and bird communities in the Turrialba - Jiménez Biological Corridor, Costa Rica
(Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE), 2005)
El objetivo de este estudio fue el de explorar las relaciones que existen entre el contexto paisajístico (cobertura de bosque aledaño), la complejidad estructural y las comunidades de aves presentes dentro de estos sistemas ...
The Neguev revisited: a study of the agricultural changes between 1987 and 1996 in the Neguev settlement, Costa Rica
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica). Atlantic Zone Programme Agricultural University Wageningen, Wageningen (Países Bajos) Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadería, San José (Costa Rica), 1997)
The main focus of REPOSA is "development of an interdisciplinary methodology for the analysis and evaluation of ecologically and economically sustainable land use" (Jansen et al., 1996:1). The research is based on a ...
The effects of local and landscape context on leafhopper (Hemiptera: cicadellinae) communities in coffeee agroforestry system of Costa Rica
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica)
University of Idaho, Moscow, ID (EUA), 2008-05)
This study examined the effects of local (shade composition, organic or conventional management, and weed management) and landscape (surrounding land uses) context on sharpshooter communities in coffee agroforestry systeMON ...
Soil biogeochemical patterns in the Talamanca foothills, Costa Rica: local soil knowledge and implications for agroecosystems
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica) |
University of Idaho, Moscow, ID (EUA), 2008)
Los objetivos de esta investigación están resumidos en cuatro puntos: 1) Entender como los agricultores indígenas Cabécares en sus tres comunidades expresan sus conocimientos locales de suelos mediante la ubicación de sus ...