Sustainable development in Honduras: economic evaluation of soil conservation practices

Costs and benefits associated with erosion reduction and adoption of soil conservation practices for a representative farm in a watershed in Honduras are examined in a linear programming framework. Special attention is paid to income-soil loss tradeoffs, income-risk tradeoffs, and on the effect of...

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Main Author: Cárcamo, Julio Antonio
Other Authors: Agricultural Economics
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/42613
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05112010-020201/