Los viveros comunales en El Salvador: un caso de éxito en la difusión de la tecnología forestal

CATIE promotes a silent revolution in Central America: changing the people's traditional culture of "extractive" forestry for a new one, based on the incorporation of tree cultivation within the production systems. Long years of silvicultural research by CATIE helped to identify speci...

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Autor principal: Heckadon Moreno, Stanley
Formato: Artículo
Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica). Proyecto Cultivo de Arboles de Uso Múltiple. 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://repositorio.catie.ac.cr/handle/11554/5718
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spelling RepoCATIE57182021-12-22T17:46:08Z Los viveros comunales en El Salvador: un caso de éxito en la difusión de la tecnología forestal Heckadon Moreno, Stanley VIVEROS EXTENSION PLANTACION PLANTACION PRODUCCION EL SALVADOR PLANT NURSERIES COMMUNAL FORESTS EXTENSION ACTIVITIES PLANTING PRODUCTION CATIE promotes a silent revolution in Central America: changing the people's traditional culture of "extractive" forestry for a new one, based on the incorporation of tree cultivation within the production systems. Long years of silvicultural research by CATIE helped to identify species and techniches well adapted to the natural conditions and forestry needs of small and medium sized peasant land holders, who form the bulk of the region's rural population. But delivering this technology confronted a harsh, reality: forestry projects aimed at the peasantry had failed or achieved limited success. El Salvador is the smallest, most densely inhabited and deforested Country in America. Although it's rural people faced and acute shortage of wood products, it had been reluctant to participate in forestry development projects promoted by the state since the 1950's. Today, however, a growing number of "campesinos" are planting multiple purpose trees on their farms. A factor behind this change are the "viveros comunales" or communal nurseries, succesfully promoted by the Ministry of Agriculture and CATIE, since 1984. An achievement accomplished in the midt of a civil war, an agrarian reform and a prolongued history of frustrated forestry efforts. The idea of producing trees with "campesinos" so they would them plant them in their farms rose by trial and error, and chance, in eastern El Salvador. There, extensionists and peasants, devised a simple, but functional organizational method for promoting forestry at the grass roots 2015-03-11T21:02:42Z 2015-03-11T21:02:42Z 1993-02 Artículo e-ISSN: 1021-0164 https://repositorio.catie.ac.cr/handle/11554/5718 es Revista Forestal Centroamericana Volumen 2 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess application/pdf CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica). Proyecto Cultivo de Arboles de Uso Múltiple.
institution Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza
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language Español
topic VIVEROS
EXTENSION
PLANTACION
PLANTACION
PRODUCCION
EL SALVADOR
PLANT NURSERIES
COMMUNAL FORESTS
EXTENSION ACTIVITIES
PLANTING
PRODUCTION
spellingShingle VIVEROS
EXTENSION
PLANTACION
PLANTACION
PRODUCCION
EL SALVADOR
PLANT NURSERIES
COMMUNAL FORESTS
EXTENSION ACTIVITIES
PLANTING
PRODUCTION
Heckadon Moreno, Stanley
Los viveros comunales en El Salvador: un caso de éxito en la difusión de la tecnología forestal
description CATIE promotes a silent revolution in Central America: changing the people's traditional culture of "extractive" forestry for a new one, based on the incorporation of tree cultivation within the production systems. Long years of silvicultural research by CATIE helped to identify species and techniches well adapted to the natural conditions and forestry needs of small and medium sized peasant land holders, who form the bulk of the region's rural population. But delivering this technology confronted a harsh, reality: forestry projects aimed at the peasantry had failed or achieved limited success. El Salvador is the smallest, most densely inhabited and deforested Country in America. Although it's rural people faced and acute shortage of wood products, it had been reluctant to participate in forestry development projects promoted by the state since the 1950's. Today, however, a growing number of "campesinos" are planting multiple purpose trees on their farms. A factor behind this change are the "viveros comunales" or communal nurseries, succesfully promoted by the Ministry of Agriculture and CATIE, since 1984. An achievement accomplished in the midt of a civil war, an agrarian reform and a prolongued history of frustrated forestry efforts. The idea of producing trees with "campesinos" so they would them plant them in their farms rose by trial and error, and chance, in eastern El Salvador. There, extensionists and peasants, devised a simple, but functional organizational method for promoting forestry at the grass roots
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author Heckadon Moreno, Stanley
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title Los viveros comunales en El Salvador: un caso de éxito en la difusión de la tecnología forestal
title_short Los viveros comunales en El Salvador: un caso de éxito en la difusión de la tecnología forestal
title_full Los viveros comunales en El Salvador: un caso de éxito en la difusión de la tecnología forestal
title_fullStr Los viveros comunales en El Salvador: un caso de éxito en la difusión de la tecnología forestal
title_full_unstemmed Los viveros comunales en El Salvador: un caso de éxito en la difusión de la tecnología forestal
title_sort los viveros comunales en el salvador: un caso de éxito en la difusión de la tecnología forestal
publisher CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica). Proyecto Cultivo de Arboles de Uso Múltiple.
publishDate 2015
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