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Land Tenure, Investment, and Agricultural Production in Nicaragua

January, 2000
Nicaragua
Forest Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Urban Tenure
Land & Investments
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Deforestation and Land Use on the Evolving Frontier: An Empirical Assessment [in Nicaragua]

January, 1999
Nicaragua, Latin America and the Caribbean
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
forestry
land
land use
land tenure
environment
deforestation
assessment
The advance of the agricultural frontier constitutes the biggest source of deforestation in Central America today. This conversion of tropical forests into agricultural land and pasture is the direct result of individual land use decisions. This paper presents a simple analytical model of household land use, followed by an econometric analysis of household survey data from the Río San Juan region of Nicaragua in order to test for consistency with the model.
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Land tenure, investment, and agricultural production in Nicaragua

January, 2000
Nicaragua, Latin America and the Caribbean
land
land tenure
While there is a consensus in Nicaragua that the security of property rights is a fundamental constraint to the long run development of the agricultural sector, there has been little empirical analysis to date of the relationship between land rights and rural economic activity.Using household level data collected between December, 1997– April, 1998 within the regions of Leon and Chinandega (known administratively as Region II), this paper investigates the relationship between rural land rights and agricultural credit, investment, and rural incomes (on farm and off farm).Results indicate tot
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The contribution of RADARSAT-1 SAR imagery to monitor land use in coastal areas of Costa Rica and Nicaragua

Reports & Research
December, 1999
Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Central America, South America
land use
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Developing local organization processes for natural resources management

Journal Articles & Books
December, 1999
Colombia, Honduras, Nicaragua, Central America, South America
natural resources management
land use
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Community Management of Hillside Resources: Project PE-3 October 1999

Reports & Research
December, 1999
Colombia, Nicaragua, Honduras, South America, Central America
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FAO Meeting on Public Policies Affecting Forest Fires

Journal Articles & Books
December, 1999
Honduras, United States of America, Zambia, Argentina, Ukraine, China, Belarus, Indonesia, Australia, Mexico, Thailand, Philippines, South Africa, Singapore, Malaysia, Italy, Poland, Nicaragua, India, Turkey, Brazil
forestry
land cover mapping
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Deforestation and Land Use on the Evolving Frontier: An Empirical Assessment [in Nicaragua]

January, 1999
Nicaragua
deforestation
The advance of the agricultural frontier constitutes the biggest source of deforestation in Central America today. This conversion of tropical forests into agricultural land and pasture is the direct result of individual land use decisions. This paper presents a simple analytical model of household land use, followed by an econometric analysis of household survey data from the Río San Juan region of Nicaragua in order to test for consistency with the model.