Agriculture in Monteverde: Moving toward Sustainability
 
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Bibliographic citations on the Agriculture in Monteverde

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  • Annis, S. 1990. Debt and wrong-way resource flows in Costa Rica. Ethics and International Affairs 4:107-121.
  • Boucher, D. H. 1983. Coffee. Pages 86-88 in D. H. Janzen, editor. Costa Rican natural history. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
  • Bradley, J. E. 1994. The Silencio site: an Early to Middle Polychrome Period cemetery in the Arenal region. Pages 106-121 in P. D. Sheets and B. R. McKee. Archaeology, volcanism, and remote sensing in the Arenal Region, Costa Rica. University of Texas Press, Austin, Texas, USA.
  • Bunderson, W. T., and D. Frye. 1986. Adaptive strategies for successful pastoral development. Pages 37-45 in Proceedings of the 1986 International Rangeland Development Symposium. International Affairs Committee of the Society for Range Management and Winrock International Institute for Agricultural Development, Orlando, Florida, USA.
  • Byers, R. A., and H. D. Wells. 1966. Phytotoxemia of coastal bermudagrass caused by the two lined spittlebug, Prosapia bicincta (Homoptera: Cercopidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 59:1067-1071.
  • Centro Agronomico Tropical de Investigación y Ensenanza (CATIE). 1983. Investigación aplicada en sistemas de producción de leche: Informe Técnico Final del Proyector CATIE-BID 1979-1983. CATIE, Turrialba, Costa Rica.
  • Donefer, E. 1976. Beef cattle production from processed sugar cane. Pages 258-264 in A. J. Smith, editor. Beef cattle production in developing countries. University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
  • Ellis, P. R., and M. E. Hugh Jones. 1976. Disease as a limiting factor to beef production in developing countries. Pages 105-116 in A. J. Smith, editor. Beef cattle production in developing countries. University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
  • Fagan, E. B., and O. V. Picado. 1971. The influence of adult Prosapia distanti feeding on the forage quality of kikuyu grass in Costa Rica. Turrialba 21:181-183.
  • Ferrufino, A., and S. L. Lapointe. 1989. Host plant resistance in Brachiaria grasses to the Spittlebug Zulia colombiana. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 51:155-162.
  • Friedman, I., and J. Gleason. 1984. C13 analysis of bone samples from Site G-150, El Silencio. Vínculos 10:113-114.
  • Guzman Zamorra, J. F. 1989. Evaluación técnico-económica en una muestra de quince fincas lecheras ubicadas en la zona de Monteverde de Puntarenas. Practicum report for B.S. in Farm Administration, Instituto Technológico de Costa Rica.
  • Hartshorn, G, L. Hartshorn, A. Atmetlla, L.D. Gómez, A. Mata, L. Mata, R. Morales, R. Ocampo, D. Pool, C. Quesada, C. Solera, R. Solórzano, G. Stiles, J. Tosi Jr., A. Umaña, C. Villalobos, and R. Wells. 1982. Costa Rica Country Environmental Profile: A Field Study. Agency for International Development contract No. 000-C-00-1004-00. Centro Cientifico Tropical, San José, Costa Rica.
  • Hilje, L., L. Castillo, L. A. Thrupp, and I. Wesseling. 1987. El uso de los plaguicidas en Costa Rica. Editorial Universidad Estatal a Distancia, San José, Costa Rica.
  • Hill, D. S. 1983. Agricultural insect pests of the tropics and their control. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
  • Hoopes, J. W., and M. L. Chenault. 1994. Excavations at Sitio Bolívar: a late Formative village in the Arenal Basin. Pages 87-105 in P. D. Sheets and B. R. McKee. Archaeology, volcanism, and remote sensing in the Arenal Region, Costa Rica. University of Texas Press, Austin, Texas, USA.
  • Humphreys, L. R. 1987. Tropical pastures and fodder crops. Longman Scientific and Technical and John Wiley and Sons, New York, New York, USA.
  • Janzen, D. 1988. Buy Costa Rican beef. Oikos 51:257-258.
  • Jarvis, L. S. 1986. Livestock development in Latin America. The World Bank, Washington D.C., USA.
  • Lapointe, S. L., M. S. Serrano, G. L. Arango, G. Sotelo, and F. Cordoba. 1992. Antibiosis to spittlebugs (Homoptera: Cercopidae) in accessions of Brachiaria spp. Journal of Economic Entomology 85:1485-1490.
  • Leonard, J. K. 1987. Natural resources and economic development in Central America: a regional environmental profile. Transaction Books, New Brunswick and Oxford, UK.
  • Madrigal Chavarria, G. 1988a. Informe final sobre la investigación en los forrajes leguminosos: La Alfalfa, Medicago sativa. CoopeSanta Elena R. L., Proyecto DISE, Monteverde, Puntarenas, Costa Rica.
  • _____. 1988b. Informe final sobre la investigación los forrajes gramineos. CoopeSanta Elena R. L., Proyecto DISE, Monteverde, Puntarenas, Costa Rica.
  • McDowell, L. R. 1976. Mineral deficiencies and toxicities and their effect on beef production in developing countries. Pages 217-241 in A. J. Smith, editor. Beef cattle production in developing countries. University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
  • McDowell, L. R., J. H. Conrad, and G. L. Ellis. 1986. Mineral deficiencies and toxicities of tropical forages for grazing livestock. Pages 139-146 in Proceedings of the 1986 International Rangeland Development Symposium. International Affairs Committee of the Society for Range Management and Winrock International Institute for Agricultural Development, Orlando, Florida, USA.
  • Melson, W.G. 1984. Prehistoric eruptions of Arenal Volcano, Costa Rica. Vínculos 10:35-59.
  • _____. 1994. The eruption of 1968 and tephra stratigraphy of Arenal Volcano. Pages 24-47 in P. D. Sheets and B. R. McKee. Archaeology, volcanism, and remote sensing in the Arenal region, Costa Rica. University of Texas Press, Austin, Texas, USA.
  • Mendoza, P. E., L. Torres, and H. Llanos. 1986. Evaluation of two different weed control systems under grazing conditions for beef production in the tropics. Pages 111-114 in Proceedings of the 1986 International Rangeland Development Symposium. International Affairs Committee of the Society for Range Management and Winrock International Institute for Agricultural Development, Orlando, Florida, USA.
  • Mueller, M. 1994. Archaeological survey in the Arenal Basin. Pages 48-72 in P. D. Sheets and B. R. McKee. Archaeology, volcanism, and remote sensing in the Arenal region, Costa Rica. University of Texas Press, Austin, Texas, USA.
  • Myers, N. 1981. The hamburger connection: how Central America's forests become North America's hamburgers. Ambio 10:2-8.
  • Mott, G. O. 1974. Nutrient recycling in pastures. Pages 323-340 in D. A. Mays, editor. Forage fertilization. American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, and Soil Science Society of America, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
  • National Research Council. (NRC)1989. Alternative agriculture. National Academy Press, Washington D.C., USA.
  • _____. 1993. Sustainable agriculture and the environment in the humid tropics. National Academy Press, Washington D.C., USA.
  • Parsons, J. J. 1983. Beef cattle (Ganado). Pages 77-79 in D. Janzen, editor. Costa Rican natural history. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
  • Peck, D. C. 1996. The association of spittlebugs with grasslands: ecology of Prosapia in upland dairy pastures of Costa Rica. Ph.D. Dissertation. Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA.
  • Piperno, D. R. 1994. Phytolith records from the Proyecto Prehistórico Arenal. Pages 286-292 in P. D. Sheets and B. R. McKee. Archaeology, volcanism, and remote sensing in the Arenal Region, Costa Rica. University of Texas Press, Austin, Texas, USA.
  • Plasse, D. N. 1976. The possibility of genetic improvement of beef cattle in developing countries with particular reference to Latin America. Pages 308-331 in A. J. Smith, editor. Beef cattle production in developing countries, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
  • Preston, T. R. 1976. Prospects for the intensification of cattle production in developing countries. Pages 242-257 in A. J. Smith, editor. Beef cattle production in developing countries. University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
  • Rifkin, J. 1992. Beyond beef: the rise and fall of the cattle culture. Dutton, New York, New York, USA.
  • Russell, D., A. W. Joe Free, and D. L. McCune. 1974. Potential for fertilizer use on tropical forages. Pages 39-65 in D. A. Mays, editor. Forage fertilization. American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, and Soil Science Society of America, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
  • Saborio, R. 1981. Programa de reactivación de ganaderia bovina de carne en Costa Rica. IICA (Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura) and SEPSA (Secretaría Ejecutiva de Planificación Sectorial de Desarrollo Agropecuario y de Recursos Naturales) San José, Costa Rica.
  • Sanchez, P. 1982. Legume-based pasture production strategy for acid infertile soils in tropical America. Pages 97-120 in D. M. Kral, editor. Soil erosion and conservation in the tropics. American Society of Agronomy and the Soil Science Society of America, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
  • _____. 1987. Management of acid soils in the humid tropics of Latin America. Pages 63-107 in P. A Sanchez, E. R. Stoner, and E. Pushparajah, editors. Management of acid tropical soils for sustainable agriculture: Proceedings of the International Board for Soil Research and Management (IBSRAM) Inaugural Workshop held in Yurimaguas, Peru, Brasilia, Brazil, and Bangkok, Thailand.
  • Sheets, P. D. 1994. Summary and conclusions. Pages 312-325 in P. D. Sheets and B. R. McKee. Archaeology, volcanism, and remote sensing in the Arenal region, Costa Rica. University of Texas Press, Austin, Texas, USA.
  • Sheets, P., J. Hoopes, W. Melson, B. McKee, T. Sever, M. Mueller, M. Chenault, and J. Bradley. 1991. Prehistory and volcanism in the Arenal area, Costa Rica. Journal of Field Archaeology 18:445-465.
  • Sheets, P. D., and B. R. McKee, editors. 1994. Archaeology, volcanism, and remote sensing in the Arenal region, Costa Rica. University of Texas Press, Austin, Texas, USA.
  • Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center. 1994. Why migratory birds are crazy for coffee. SMBC Fact Sheet No. 1.
  • Stobbs, T. H. 1976. Beef production from sown and planted pastures in the tropics. Pages 164-183 in A. J. Smith, editor. Beef cattle production in developing countries. University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
  • Stuckey, J. 1989. Kicking the subsidized habit: viewing rural development as a function of local savings mobilization - the Santa Elena case: modifications for the 1990s. MBA Thesis. National University, San José, Costa Rica.
  • Taliafero, C. M., R. A. Byers, and G. W. Burton. 1967. Effects of spittlebug on root production and sod reserves of coastal bermudagrass. Agronomy Journal 50:530-532.
  • Ter K., and B. T. Kang. 1986. Farming systems principles for improved food production and the control of soil degradation in the arid, semi-arid and humid tropics. ICRISAT (International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics) and UNEP (United Nations Environment Program). ICRISAT Center, India.
  • Thrupp, L. A. 1988. Pesticides and policies: approaches to pest-control dilemmas in Nicaragua and Costa Rica. Latin American Perspectives 15:37-70.
  • Vasquez, J. D. 1988. Estudio de prefactibilidad para el establecimiento de un beneficio de café en la zona de Monteverde. CoopeSanta Elena R. L., Proyecto DISE, Santa Elena, Costa Rica.
  • Vicente-Chandler, J. 1974. Fertilization of humid tropical grasslands. Pages 277-301 in D. A. Mays, editor. Forage fertilization. American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, and Soil Science Society of America, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
  • Voisin, A., and A. Lecomte. 1962. Rotational grazing: the meeting of cow and grass. A manual of grass productivity. Crosby Lockwood and Son Ltd, London, UK.
  • Warnick, A. C. 1976. Management factors affecting reproductive efficiency of beef cattle in developing countries. Pages 132-137 in A. J. Smith, editor. Beef cattle production in developing countries. University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
  • Whitman, P. C. 1980. Tropical pasture science. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.
  • Williams, R. C. 1986. Export agriculture and the crisis in Central America. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
  • Wrigley, G. 1988. Coffee. Longman Scientific and Technical, Essex, UK.
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