Fed by demand for beef within Brazil and in global markets, the Brazilian herd grew from
147 million head of cattle in 1990 to≈ 200 million in 2007. Eighty-three percent of this …

From 1975 to 2000, the water buffalo population in the Brazilian Amazon increased at nearly
13% per year, making it one of the fastest growing herds in the world. On the floodplains of …

While the organizational dynamics of collective management systems have received much
attention, relatively little work has focused on how households adapt their economic …

Significant effort is being devoted to the expansion of payments for watershed services
(PWS) programs at national, regional, and local scales. This expansion faces logistical …

The floodplain forests in the Amazon basin suffer from the continued exploitation of natural
resources and, after being disturbed, show slow and sometimes irreversible recovery. Our …

Contract farming has been increasingly found to benefit smallholders in develo**
countries, yet much less is known about its role in the poultry industry where economies of …

Estuaries hold major economic potential due their strategic location, close to seas and
inland waterways, thereby supporting intense economic activity. The increasing pace of …

Livestock systems across the world are transformed by capitalist forces. Understanding
these social, economic, and cultural transformations is important because it has major …

We study the incentives of households in the floodplain of the Amazon River (várzea) to
comply with community fisheries management efforts. The local manifestation of fisheries …

The páramos of Boyacá in Colombia are earmarked for delimitation to prevent the
expansion of the agricultural frontier and protect endemic flora that contribute to water …