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This research aimed to assess the vulnerability and adaptive
capacity to climate change of coffee farms in Guatemala. The
study was carried out based on the application of the vulnerability
and adaptive capacity instrument of the Coffee cloud tool. Field
observations were made in the seven coffee growing regions of the
country, and a total of 53 pr...
Latent effects of climate variability on coffee development and
productivity have generated uncertainty in the coffee sector in Costa
Rica. Given this problem, COOCAFE consortium implemented an
evaluation and monitoring process for a group of associated farms,
located in the provinces of Guanacaste, San José, and Puntarenas.
This study applied the...
Climate change today represents the main challenge that
agriculture is facing, especially coffee growing, since thousands
of families survive thanks to this activity in Honduras. The main
objective of the research was to apply the methodology for
assessing vulnerability and adaptive capacity to climate change,
developed by Virginio Filho et al. (20...
The Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center
(CATIE), the Regional Climate Change Program (RCCP) and
the Central American Program for the Integrated Management
of Coffee Rust (Hemilia vastatrix) (PROCAGICA), developed
a rapid evaluation tool and reference manual to evaluate the
vulnerability and adaptive capacity of coffee plantat...
Often livestock activity is related to deforestation and loss of natural resources such as soil and water quality and quantity. The strategies that come from this perception seek the minimization of livestock effect of greenhouse gas emissions into the environment. Silvopastoral systems is been used as an alternative to increase tree cover on lives...
La región de Centroamérica cubre una superficie de 524.000 km2, de los cuales 181.000
km2 (el 35%) corresponden a lo que se denomina “Corredor Seco Centroamericano”. En la región viven aproximadamente 26 millones de personas, más de la mitad de ellas en el área rural, que se caracteriza por un alto índice de pobreza y una agricultura de subsistenci...
Silvopastoral systems—the management of trees within pastures from natural regeneration or planting—are a strategy to promote sustainable livestock systems and ecosystems services. Timber is one of the products from these systems with potential to increase family revenues. The management of natural regeneration and population dynamics of trees is a...
The importance of tropical timber is increasing worldwide. However, the timber supply of tropical forests has been greatly impacted by growing deforestation associated with complex and restrictive timber harvest laws. In Central America, as well as in other developing regions, reforestation programs have often fallen short of expectations. In these...
En este capítulo analizamos la producción de madera en sistemas agroforestales (SAF) con café, cacao y ganadería en América Central. Se compiló y sintetizó la información disponible para Centroamérica sobre árboles en potreros, plantaciones de café y de cacao, incluyendo las listas de las especies maderables más abundantes y representativas, de sus...
La diversidad de especies vegetales y animales que se encuentran en los diferentes sistemas productivos de las familias del sur de México ha contribuido a la seguridad alimentaria de los grupos étnicos. Los huertos familiares proveen, a lo largo del año, de múltiples productos para el consumo directo de la familia y en ocasiones estos productos se...
Agroforestry covers between 200 and 357 million hectares in Latin America, including 14–26 million hectares in Central America and 88–315 million hectares in South America. Commercial silvopastoral systems and shaded tree-crop systems (involving crops such as of coffee, Coffea spp., and cacao, Theobroma cacao L.) are the most prominent agroforestry...
El Proyecto Bosques y Manejo Forestal en América Central (Finnfor-CATIE/MAP) del Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE), trabaja con el apoyo del Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores de Finlandia. El propósito del proyecto es que familias productoras, organizaciones de productores, organizaciones no gubernamentales, empresas, i...
La presente investigación tiene como objetivo establecer la relación que existe entre los capitales de la comunidad y la intervención que han tenido a partir
del 2003 UNACH, REBISO, INIFAP, ECOSUR y CBM. Se encontró que los sistemas intervenidos son los sistemas ganaderos los cuales presentan cambio manejo de potreros, divisiones rotación y manejo...
Timber production in Belizean silvopasto
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ral systems.
The potential for timber production
was evaluated on 35 farms representative of the
silvopastoral systems of El Cayo District, Belize.
Also, the legal and political framework govern
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ing the forest sector was analyzed. Through an
inventory of saplings, taper and trees, a total
populatio...
Se presentan los pasos metodológicos y resultados prelimina¬res del estudio de las actividades de pastoreo bajo plantaciones de P. caribaea destinadas para producción de pulpa de papel. Los estudios se desarrollaron en la finca Buenavista, Pavones, Turrialba, Costa Rica, propiedad de la Empresa Celulosa Turrialba S.A. Los objetivos de estos estudio...
En muchos países latino¬americanos la actividad agrope¬cuaria y la producción forestal, ambas en franca expansión, con frecuencia compiten por disponibi¬lidad de tierras. Para evitar posibles conflictos futuros es necesario desarrollar tecnologías que integren racional y simultá¬neamente ambas actividades. El pastoreo bajo plantaciones fores¬tales...
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Finnfor II Project consolidated and generated some successful experiences with value chains for forest products in the intervened countries. Currently, this approach constitutes an innovative model beginning with forest management all through logging, transformation and commercialization. During this year, the Finnfor II team systematized the experiences in each country and analyzed the crosscutting points that characterize the value chains sponsored. This points are the ecologic integrity of ecosystems, organization and equity, access to finance and incentives, governance and legality, improvement of technological packages, competitiveness, strategic partnerships, and market access for commercialization.
