Sustainable Agriculture & Natural Resource Management (SANREM)

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Traversing a landscape of memory

This sixth chapter describes a number of the spiritual stories and native tales associated with the Cotacachi indigenous culture. These include trickster tales, creation myths, and […]

  • Date of Publication: 2006
  • Author(s): V. Nazarea; R. Guitarra; R.E. Rhoades
  • Type of Document: Scholarly Article

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Recipes for Life: Counsel, customs, and cuisine from the Andean hearth

Daily sustenance tends to be overlooked as we focus our attention on big, important issues such as development, conservation, and globalization. And yet what sustains people […]

  • Date of Publication: 2006
  • Author(s): V.D. Nazarea; J. Camacho; N. Parra
  • Type of Document: Scholarly Article

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Money for nothing? A call for empirical evaluation of biodiversity conservation investments

Excerpt: For far too long, conservation scientists and practitioners have depended on intuition and anecdote to guide the design of conservation investments. If we want to […]

  • Date of Publication: 2006
  • Author(s): P.J. Ferraro; S.K. Pattanayak
  • Type of Document: Scholarly Article

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AVRDC- The World Vegetable Center’s research & development on good agricultural practices for safe vegetable production

There are rising global challenges with respect to vegetable production: -Rising populations, especially in urban areas -Land degradation and water scarcity -Pesticide abuse -Widespread malnutrition This […]

  • Date of Publication: 2006
  • Author(s): M.C. Palada
  • Type of Document: Media

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Biological diversity in Cotacachi’s Andean forests

Recognizing an absence of scientific literature regarding biodiversity in the Andean highlands, this seventh chapter discusses flora and fauna and the biological processes through which different […]

  • Date of Publication: 2006
  • Author(s): M. Penafiel; M. Tipan; L. Nolivos; K. Vasquez
  • Type of Document: Scholarly Article

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La experiencia Venezolana en esquemas de pagos por servicios ambientales: Informe para el proyecto CI-CIFOR sobre la factibilidad de PSA en el Corredor Norandino

EXTRACTO (de la introduccion): Este informe, hace una breve descripcion del contexto legal, politico y organizacional donde se pueden enmarcar los esquemas de Pagos por Servicios […]

  • Date of Publication: 2006
  • Author(s): J. Perez Roas
  • Type of Document: Research Report

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The Vittel payments for ecosystem services: A “perfect” PES case?

This paper describes and analyses the PES programme developed and implemented by Vittel (Nestle Waters) in north-eastern France. In order to address the risk of nitrate […]

  • Date of Publication: 2006
  • Author(s): D. Perrot-Maitre
  • Type of Document: Research Report

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Women and homegardens of Cotacachi

Chapter 10 examines the role of women as the primary cultivators of homegardens in Cotacachi. Homegardens serve an important purpose in family life as they supplement […]

  • Date of Publication: 2006
  • Author(s): M.C. Piniero
  • Type of Document: Scholarly Article

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Manejo de recursos naturales basado en cuencas en agricultura de pequena escala: areas de ladera de la Region Andina

Summary: A Powerpoint presentation by PROINPA to local government participants in project.

  • Date of Publication: 2006
  • Author(s): PROINPA
  • Type of Document: Media

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Rural income program

Summary: An explanation of mission, objectives, components, strategies, products, geographic area of action and partners of the Rural Income Program of the USAID Titulo II, ADRA-Bolivia.

  • Date of Publication: 2006
  • Author(s): R. Cortez
  • Type of Document: Media

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