Search Results - American frontier
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Forests, policies and people on the Central American agricultural frontier
Published 1999“…Forests cover between 17 and 19 million ha of the Central American isthmus. Most of this is broadleaved forest on the Atlantic side of the isthmus. …”
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Endogeneity corrected stochastic production frontier and technical efficiency
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Africa’s nomadic pastoralists and their animals are an invisible frontier in pandemic surveillance
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Eroding knowledge: an ethnobotanical inventory in Eastern Amazonia's logging frontier
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Agricultural expansion and the ecological marginalization of forest-dependent people
Published 2021“…Using high-resolution satellite images across the entire South American Gran Chaco, a global deforestation hotspot, we digitize individual forest-smallholder homesteads (n = 23,954) and track their dynamics between 1985 and 2015. …”
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Bosques secundarios y manejo integrado de recursos en la agricultura migratoria por colonos en Latinoamérica
Published 2002“…Econometric analysis identifies threats to the existence of SF at different stages of the frontier development process. Multi-resource forest inventories interpreted in the context of frontier development identify potential management strategies for increasing their contribution to incomes. …”
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Policies affecting deforestation for cattle in Central America.
Published 1997“…It is also recommended that livestock credit also be restricted in agricultural frontier regions with high rainfall.…”
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Agricultural expansion in the Semiarid Chaco: poorly selectivecontagious advance
Published 2018“…Clearance for agriculture or cattle ranching was the dominant land-cover change during the last two decades in the South American Dry Chaco. The Argentinean portion has been particularly affected, presenting greater deforestation rates than the continental and global averages. …”
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Productivity and efficiency in grassland-based livestock production in Latin America : The cases of Uruguay and Paraguay
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