Abstract
Honduras has a good deal of hillside agriculture which is thought to be unsustainable because it provokes soil degradation and erosion. Nevertheless producers continue to use slopes in many different ways and this raises the question of how Honduran producers have responded to the challenge of mountain ecology in the context of ecological, social and economic change in a particular region.
I am grateful to Sarah Howard, Esther Roquas, and Jan de Groot for their valuable comments, and to the European Commission and the Netherlands Foundation for the Advancement of Tropical Research (WOTRO) for their financial support.
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Jansen, K. (1997). Diversity and the Nature of Technological Change in Hillside Farming in Honduras. In: de Groot, J.P., Ruben, R. (eds) Sustainable Agriculture in Central America. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230378087_7
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