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Notes
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This hacienda or estate belonged to the Montealegre Lacayo family, which was part of an oligarchy of landowning families that had influence over the politics not only of Nicaragua, but also those of Guatemala and Costa Rica.
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Twenty open interviews, 31 semi-directive interviews and 75 rapid surveys, life stories of all members of 10 family subgroups, focus groups of 20 randomly selected individuals in the community.
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Our interviews show, however, that while the head of the family has the last word in public, his wife is the one who ensures reproduction and redistribution within the family, who guarantees social cohesion, and who, ultimately, is always consulted in her role as the chief adviser to the head of the family, as part of the intimacy of their relationship.
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We calculated the investment capacity by dividing the total income by the costs of the activity (sum of intermediate consumption and salaries).
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where: i is the different sources of income; n the number of income sources; p the share of each income source in total income.
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The colour of certain types of capital specifies how the subgroup contributes to the allocation of capital of the extended group.
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Fréguin-Gresh, S., Trousselle, A., Cortes, G. (2018). Multi-localized Diversified Family Farming in Nicaragua. In: Bosc, PM., Sourisseau, JM., Bonnal, P., Gasselin, P., Valette, É., Bélières, JF. (eds) Diversity of Family Farming Around the World. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1617-6_8
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