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040			_aCR-TuBCO _cCR-TuBCO _beng
041			_aeng
082			_bE82bu
090			_aThesis _bE82bu
100			_965886 _aEstrada Carmona, Natalia
245			_aBuilding a bridge between food production and conservation _b: experiences from Latin America and the Caribbean _c /
260			_aTurrialba, Costa Rica _b: CATIE _c, 2014
270			_aSan José, C.R.
300			_a179 páginas _b: 19 ilustraciones, 6 tablas _c; 21.59 x 27.94 cm _e+
502			_aTesis (Ph.D. with a Major in Natural Resources) -- Universidad de Idaho, 2014.
504			_aContiene referencias bibliografías en las páginas 98-107
520			_aLatin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region is a place where innovation to manage natural resources is taking place. The region is and will keep contributing to the global food market. However, this poses a threat to the biodiversity hotspots and the key ecosystem service they provide at local, national and global scale. The Integrated landscape management (ILM) and the Ecosystem Services (ES) approach are being widely used in the region to mediate between food production and conservation. Still, we lack information in terms of how common is the ILM implemented as a participatory and integrative strategy that engages local and regional stakeholders to promote sustainable agricultural production, biodiversity conservation and improvement of community's livelihoods. In addition, we lack a quantified understanding of which practices guarantee ES provisioning at the site level and how site level implementations across a watershed improve larger scale services in agroecosystems. To assess if ILM is a promising approach to mediate between food production and conservation we surveyed 107 and interviewed 23 initiatives applying ILM in the region. We found that ILM is improving natural resources management, engaging farmers, empowering local leaders and increasing the ability of communities to self-organize while increasing their capacity to understand and implement landscape management. The progress and success of these initiatives is highly dependent on sufficient and sustainable sources of funding and support, on decreasing policies and laws that hinder integrated landscape management and, on developing strategies to actively involve key stakeholders, government and private sector entities. We also assessed site level efforts (such as implementing soil conservation practices) on watershed scale ES provisioning (such as reducing sediment yields in reservoirs for hydropower prodiction). We used a coupled economic and soil loss model to evaluate multiple strategies for reducing soil loss and compared these estimates to the costs of dredging three reservoirs in the upper and middle part of the iv Reventazon River, Costa Rica. Our results indicate that the cost of implementing ideal cropping systems (combination of at least two or three soil conservation practices) is potentially similar or cheaper than dredging, given our modeling assumptions. Our empirical-based and conservative methodology can be adapted and modeled iteratively to improve PES spatial planning in agroecosystems.
546			_aTesis escrita en inglés
650		0	_aSEGURIDAD ALIMENTARIA _92117
650			_9160236 _aPRODUCCION ALIMENTARIA
650			_9149231 _aGESTION INTEGRADA
650			_9157103 _aPAISAJE AGRICOLA
650			_95 _aECOSISTEMA
650			_96 _aBIODIVERSIDAD
650			_9154334 _aMEDIOS DE VIDA SOSTENIBLES
650			_9141831 _aCONSERVACION DE SUELOS
650			_9143009 _aCUENCAS HIDROGRAFICAS
650			_9155081 _aMODELIZACION DEL MEDIO AMBIENTE
650			_9141803 _aCONSERVACION
651			_921757 _aAMERICA LATINA
651			_922880 _aCARIBE
700			_956285 _aChain Guadarrama, Adina _c(autor/a) _eCATIE - Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza, Turrialba, Costa Rica
710			_920633 _aUniversity of Idaho, Idaho (Estados Unidos)
710			_aCATIE - Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza _cTurrialba, Costa Rica _93977
856			_uhttps://repositorio.catie.ac.cr/handle/11554/7114 _qpdf _yeng
942			_cTES _2ddc