Livelihoods, Land Rights and Sustainable Development in Nicaragua’s Bosawas Reserve

Sarah M. Howard

Chapter 8 in Sustainable Agriculture in Central America, 1997, pp 129-141 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The Bosawas National Natural Resource Reserve, designated in 1991, straddles the Department of Jinotega and the North Atlantic Autonomous Region (RAAN), extending from the central mountains to the foothills of the Caribbean lowlands (Figure 7.1) At 8000 square kilometres, it is the largest area of protected humid tropical forest in Central America (SIMAS-CICUTEC, 1995, p. 9). Bosawas is home to the majority of Nicaragua’s remaining Mayangna Indians (between 8000 and 10 000), around 4000 Miskitu Indians, and some 30 000 Mestizos (CEPAD, 1992, p. 1; 1993, p. 10; Valenzuela, 1993, p. 14). Mestizo numbers have been increasing since the end of the recent civil war in 1990, through in-migration from other parts of Nicaragua.

Keywords: Indigenous People; Cattle Pasture; Land Claim; Indigenous Land; Territorial Sovereignty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1997
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230378087_8

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