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1. Library Resource

   

   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.

2. Library Resource

   

   Guyana / Les Guyanes: ethnic/linguistic groups, land use, research projects (FTRP / APFT)

   January, 1999

   Guyana, Latin America and the Caribbean

   land

   land use

   research

   land tenure

   agriculture
3. Library Resource

   

   Rural women’s access to land in Latin America

   January, 1999

   Latin America and the Caribbean

   Land & Gender

   Land & Food Security

   land

   land tenure

   food security

   land access

   women

   Paper addresses the following concerns:rural women have limited access to and control of landmost agrarian reforms and legislation that directly or indirectly regulate access to land discriminate against womenthe establishment of legal frameworks with a gender perspective and the elimination of cultural and institutional factors that prevent the recognition of women as producers are essential to safeguard rural women’s access to land.Merely introducing principles of equality into constitutions and in certain norms is not sufficient.