Overcoming the barriers to financial services for small-scale forestry: The case of the community forest enterprise of Petén, Guatemala

Unasylva

Volumn 58, Issue 228, 2007, Pages 38-43

  Junkin, Ruth ^a  

^a CATIE   (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY FORESTRY; FINANCIAL SERVICES; FOREST RESOURCE; REGULATORY FRAMEWORK; TIMBER INDUSTRY;

CENTRAL AMERICA; GUATEMALA [CENTRAL AMERICA]; PETEN;

EID: 36448968261     PISSN: 00416436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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