Production Systems in the Humid Tropics of Nicaragua: a Comparison of Two Colonization Areas

Jan P. Groot, Rosario Ambrogui and Mario Lópes Jiménez

Chapter 5 in Sustainable Agriculture in Central America, 1997, pp 67-88 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract One important mechanism that could be exploited to conserve the tropical rain forest in Central America is to try to influence the colonization process, by reducing the flow of migrants to the agrarian frontier. Policies to achieve this involve giving peasants in the regions of outmigration access to land, technology, investment funds and markets. However, the progress made in these areas is limited. The alternative approach is to make colonist land use systems more productive and more ecologically sustainable. This approach can only succeed if the more sustainable practices are appropriate for the technical and socio-economic conditions of the colonists. More needs to be known about production systems in colonization areas in order to be able to design, adapt and transfer such practices. It is just as important to know the farmer’s actual knowledge and perceptions relating to innovative practices.

Keywords: Soil Fertility; Capital Accumulation; Land Degradation; Home Garden; Colonization Area (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1997
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230378087_5

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