Resultados de búsqueda - Protected areas Mexico
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Paper park performance: Mexico’s natural protected areas in the 1990s
Publicado 2020“…We examine the effect of Mexico’s natural protected areas (NPAs) on deforestation from 1993 to 2000, a period when forest clearing was rampant and the vast majority of protected areas had negligible resources or management. …”
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Tropical Deforestation, Community Forests, and Protected Areas in the Maya Forest
Publicado 2008“…We evaluated the community-forestry hypothesis and the protected-area hypothesis in community forests with commercial timber production and strict protected areas in the Maya Forest of Guatemala and Mexico. …”
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New records of Phaseolus microcarpus (Leguminosae: Phaseoleae) for Costa Rica
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The impact of conditional cash transfer programs on indigenous households in Latin America: Evidence from PROGRESA in Mexico
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Silvopastoral systems and remnant forests enhance carbon storage in livestock‑dominated landscapes in Mexico
Publicado 2022“…Furthermore, our findings also have important implications to help better manage livestock-dominated landscapes and minimize pressures on natural protected areas and biodiversity in the hotspots of deforestation for grassland expansion.…”
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Esquema de pago por servicios ambientales de la Comisión Nacional Forestal, México
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Human pressure on water quality and water yield in the upper Grijalva river basin in the Mexico-Guatemala border
Publicado 2016“…To better understand the relations between human population, forest area and water quality and yield, at a regional level, we studied six catchments located in the upper Grijalva river basin in the border between Guatemala and Mexico. …”
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The existence value of the Antillean manatee in the unprotected Hondo River (Mexico) as a fundamental component for its conservation
Publicado 2022“…The Hondo River is the natural border between Mexico and Belize, and it is part of the distribution area of the Endangered Antillean manatee Trichechus manatus manatus. …”
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Towards a climate change adaptation strategy for coffee communities and ecosystems in the Sierra Madre de Chiapas, Mexico
Publicado 2009“…The mountain chain of the Sierra Madre de Chiapas in southern Mexico is globally significant for its biodiversity and is one of the most important coffee production areas of Mexico. …”
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When formal and market-based conservation mechanisms disrupt food sovereignty: Impacts of community conservation and payments for environmental services on an indigenous community...
Publicado 2011“…The impacts of Payments for Environmental Services (PES) and creation of formal Voluntary Conserved Areas (VCAs) on local diets, agricultural practices, subsistence hunting and livelihoods, were assessed in a Chinantec community of southern Mexico. …”
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Composición florística, estructura y biomasa de los bosques de pino-encino en la reserva Santa Rosa, Tisey, Estelí, Nicaragua
Publicado 2017“…In Nicaragua, several protected areas were established for the preservation of this ecosystem, such as the natural reserve Tisey-Estanzuela; however, this forest is considered susceptible to degradation, due to increasing deforestation and agricultural activities, besides being a narrow ecological niche (700 to 1 500 masl). …”
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Challenges and initiatives in reducing food losses and waste: Latin America and the Caribbean
Publicado 2020“…Production systems range from intensive monocultural systems to family agriculture, agroforestry and ancestral production systems, surrounded by forest and protected areas. LAC accounts for 14% of the global production and 23% of exports of agricultural and fisheries commodities. …”
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Physic nut, Jatropha curcas L.
Publicado 1996“…It has become of interest to various development agencies because it adapts well to semiarid marginal sites, its oil can be processed for use as a diesel fuel and it can be used for erosion control.This monograph has chapters covering the following aspects of J. curcas: names of the species and taxonomy; botanical description; origin and centre of diversity; properties (toxicology); uses (whole plant and food/fodder, medicine, plant protectant and molluscicide, technical uses, diesel fuel and other uses); genetic resources (existing genetic variation, conservation); breeding (objectives, method and selection based on provenance trials); production areas; ecology; agronomy (growth and development, propagation methods and pests and diseases); limitations of the crop; prospects; and research needs.There are appendices listing (I) research contacts, centres of crop research, breeding and plant genetic resources of physic nut and (II) publications of Proyecto Biomasa, DINOT/UNI, Nicaragua. …”
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