REHABILITATING ABANDONED LANDS IN THE LATIN AMERICAN HUMID TROPICS A research programme to develop alternatives for rehabilitation and use of abandoned lands was conducted from 1987 to 1998 in three humid forest regions of Latin America ...

Latin American forestry research has concentrated on silviculture , reforestation , plantation management , and and tree characteristics , almost to the exclusion of the management of natural forests . This repetitive research should be ...

Centro Científico Tropical , San José , Costa Rica . 1991. Plan de Acción Forestal Tropical para Centroamérica . ... Plantation Forestry in the Tropics . ... Agricultura , Vida y futuro 120 Latin American Workshop on Research Priorities.

In the present chapter , examples are presented from experimental plantations with native trees that had been ... REHABILITATING ABANDONED LANDS IN THE LATIN AMERICAN HUMID TROPICS A research program to develop alternatives for the ...

of agroforestry , plantation forestry and natural forestry management , including pest identification , phytosanitary characterization ... This is one of the foremost activities according to institutional surveys in Latin America .

countries of the inter - american system , and the international community . ... in the interest promotion of the management of plantation forests takes in extension activities and research , validation and transfer of fast growing tree ...

Latin America different soils occur ( Ultisols and Oxisols ) which have different constraints . ... Brazil ( 39 , 40 ) to explore whether this system can be adapted to other humid tropical and subtropical forest regions .

CATIE'S AGROFORESTRY RESEARCH PRIORITIES * John Beer Head of the Agroforestry Dept. , CATIE During the last 25 years , CATIE has had an agroforestry research programme , based on the study of traditional agroforestry systems in Latin ...

Kenya Forestry Research Institute , Muguga , Kenya . December 6 , 1993. International Institute of Biological Control ( IIBC ) , Nairobi , Kenya . 82 pp . ARGUEDAS , M. 1997. Plagas de Semillas Forestales en America Central y el Caribe ...

The second objective is to provide pest - related research - based support services to internal and external users in the fields of agroforestry , plantation forestry and natural forest management , including pest identification and ...