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  1. Library Resource
    January, 1999
    Nicaragua

    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
    Reports & Research
    January, 1999
    Honduras

    This paper reviews hypotheses about the impacts of rural population growth on agriculture and natural resource management in developing countries and the implications for productivity, poverty, and natural resource conditions. Impacts on household and collective decisions are considered, and it is argued that population growth is more likely to have negative impacts when there is no collective responses than when population growth induces infrastructure development, collective action, institutional or organizational development.

  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    January, 1999
    Honduras

    This study investigates the micro-determinants of land use change using community, household and plot histories, an ethnographic method that constructs panel data from systematic oral recalls. A 20-year historical timeline (1975-1995) is constructed for the village of La Lima in central Honduras, based on a random sample of 97 plots. Changes in land use are examined using transition analysis and multinomial logit analysis.

  4. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    January, 1999
    Honduras

    Based on a survey of 48 communities in central Honduras, this paper identifies the major pathways of development that have been occurring in central Honduras since the mid-1970s, their causes and implications for agricultural productivity, natural resource sustainability, and poverty.

  5. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    January, 1999
    Honduras

    The determinants of local organizational density and the impacts of local and external organizations on collective and private natural resource management decisions are investigated based on a survey of 48 villages in central Honduras. Factors positively associated with local organizational development include the presence of external organizations, population level, moderate population growth, lower population density, the presence of immigrants, distance from the urban market, literacy and coffee production.

  6. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 1999
    Chile

    Con el objeto de conocer las concentraciones sanguíneas de Triyodotironina (T3) y Tiroxina (T4) en vacas lecheras en el sur de Chile, se seleccionaron 110 muestras de sangre de vacas Frison Negro, 55 pertenecian a vacas al inicio de lactancia y 55 a vacas en el período final de gestación. Las muestras de sangre fueron obtenidas por punción yugular o coccígea en tubos heparinizados. El plasma obtenido por centrifugación fue mantenido a -20º C hasta el análisis.

  7. Library Resource
    January, 1999
    Latin America and the Caribbean

    The application of the incremental cost assessment to biodiversity has always been uncertain. This paper seeks to demonstrate that the concept is a workable one in biodiversity. This paper has a twofold aim:1. to make explicit the strategic and logical approach to incremental cost assessment- to demonstrate that it is replicable and applicable to all GEF projects2. to apply this strategic and logical approach to specific case examples (or paradigm cases)
    - these paradigms will provide operational guidance at the more practical level

  8. Library Resource
    January, 1999
    Latin America and the Caribbean

    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.

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