Who Harvests and Why? Characteristics of Guatemalan Households Harvesting Xaté (Chamaedorea ernesti-augusti)1;Quién cosecha y porque? Caracteristicas de los hogares Guatemaltecos que cosechan xaté (Chamaedorea ernesti-augusti)

Economic Botany

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 357-369

  Williams, Sophie J ^a,b   Gibbons, James M ^a   Clubbe, Colin ^b   Dibble, Amanda ^c   Marroquín, Adolfo ^c   Jones, Julia P G ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS   (United Kingdom)

^c Asociación Comunitaria para la Integración Humana a la Naturaleza   (Guatemala)

Author keywords

alternative livelihoods; Central America; conservation; cultivation; illegal resource extraction; Overexploitation; socioeconomics

Indexed keywords

CHAMAEDOREA ERNESTI-AUGUSTII;

EID: 84871720275     PISSN: 00130001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12231-012-9214-3     Document Type: Article

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