Abstract
The most important change in land use in Central America in the last 40 years has been the widespread conversion of forest to pasture. Between 1950 and 1990, the area in forest in the region fell from 29 million hectares to 17 million, and the majority of cleared lands became pastures (Utting, 1992).
The author is grateful for comments by Gerardo Budowski, Neil Byron, Ronnie de Camino, Jan de Groot, Marc Edelman, Sam Fujisaka, Alicia Grimes, Peter Hazel!, Federico Holmann, Elizabeth Katz, Manuel Paveri Anziani, Sara Scherr, Denise Stanley, William Sunderlin, Lori Ann Thrupp, and Steven Vosti. Support for the research was provided by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ), Inter-American Institute for Cooperation in Agriculture (IICA), International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and the World Bank. The author, however, is solely responsible for the material presented.
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Kaimowitz, D. (1997). Policies Affecting Deforestation for Cattle in Central America. In: de Groot, J.P., Ruben, R. (eds) Sustainable Agriculture in Central America. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230378087_4
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