Sustainable Agriculture & Natural Resource Management (SANREM)

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Pacheco, Diego

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Pasture preferences: The ecology and economics of Andean farmers’ decisions

The brief addresses the questions: What drives farmers’ resource management decisions in fragile marginal environments? Are the subsistence activities of small farmers in tropical regions a […]

  • Date of Publication: 2002
  • Author(s): B. Diamond
  • Type of Document: Research Brief

Typologies of production and power: Household livelihood strategies and gender roles in an Andean frontier economy

This brief illustrates an application of production strategy analysis in the SANREM CRSP Ecuadorian site. Production strategy analysis is an interdisciplinary research approach that elucidates how […]

  • Date of Publication: 2002
  • Author(s): C. Flora
  • Type of Document: Research Brief

The discourse of advocacy coalitions: Desired futures and natural resource issues

Using discourse analysis, this paper synthesizes, characterizes, and summarizes information gathered from in-depth interviews and focus groups with key representatives of civil society, state, and market-oriented […]

  • Date of Publication: 2002
  • Author(s): F. Campana; M. Bravo
  • Type of Document: Research Report

Capital, community and collective action: Social foundations of sustainability in an Andean buffer zone (Ecuador)

Development approaches have traditionally emphasized material resources, ignoring the less tangible forms of capital. But sustainable development, especially in relation to land use and production systems, […]

  • Date of Publication: 2002
  • Author(s): J. Flora
  • Type of Document: Research Brief

Program of payments for forest environmental services in Costa Rica

Abstract: The Payments for Environmental Services Program (PESP) implemented in Costa Rica is an alternative approach to halt environmental degradation derived from deforestation in low income […]

  • Date of Publication: 2002
  • Author(s): E. Ortiz Malavasi
  • Type of Document: Media

Program of Payments for Ecological Services in Costa Rica

Summary: The paper explores one example of a system for valuation of forest goods and services, assessing its advantages/disadvantages, lessons learnt and its application to large […]

  • Date of Publication: 2002
  • Author(s): E. Ortiz Malavasi; J. Kellenberg
  • Type of Document: Conference Proceeding or Document

Biodiversity and marginality: Dilemma of economic development

Abstract: This study investigates the impact of economic development on women and biodiversity in two rural communities in Ecuador. The level of womens integration into the […]

  • Date of Publication: 2002
  • Author(s): M. Piniero
  • Type of Document: Scholarly Article

Scenarios of sustainability: Scientific and local visions of development in a biodiversity hotspot (Ecuador)

Sustainability has been a core concept in development approaches in the 1990s. Even so, it has been largely defined in biophysical terms, such as rates of […]

  • Date of Publication: 2002
  • Author(s): R. Rhoades; V. Nazarea-Rhoades
  • Type of Document: Research Brief

Conservation Concessions: A new tool for biodiversity conservation in the tropics

Abstract: Conservation of biodiversity-rich habitats presents a challenge to nations wishing to develop their natural resources for economic ends. Logging, mining and other resource-development activities offer […]

  • Date of Publication: 2002
  • Author(s): R. Rice
  • Type of Document: Conference Proceeding or Document