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1. Library Resource

   

   Unlocking the Central America's Export Potential

   Volume 3. Unlocking Potential in Rural Areas - Geographic Analysis

   Reports & Research

   Policy Papers & Briefs

   October, 2012

   Nicaragua, Panama, Honduras, Central America, Latin America and the Caribbean

   agriculture

   land ownership

   land use

   rural areas

   rural development

   rural population

   transaction costs

   The Central America region is a small market. The region contains around 43 million inhabitants (0.6 percent of total world population) who generate around 0.25 percent of the world's Gross Domestic Product (GDP). While the region has successfully embarked on a regional integration agenda and has strong commercial links with the US, extra-regional trade-mainly with large fast-growing emerging economies-remains a challenge.

2. Library Resource

   

   Agriculture in Nicaragua : Promoting Competitiveness and Stimulating Broad-Based Growth

   August, 2013

   Nicaragua

   agriculture

   development agencies

   farmers

   food security

   forestry

   land use

   property rights

   rural areas

   rural development

   transaction costs

   The report reviews basic growth, as
   being one of four pillars for Nicaragua's poverty
   reduction strategy. The well-being of the rural poor will
   continue its dependence on - to a great extent -
   agriculture. The study analyzes main agricultural
   development aspects, and stipulates the broad basic growth
   may be enhanced by strengthening agricultural
   competitiveness. Yet, export growth is key to economic
   

3. Library Resource

   

   Nicaragua : Promoting Competitiveness and Stimulating Broad-based Growth in Agriculture

   August, 2013

   Nicaragua

   agriculture

   development agencies

   farmers

   food security

   forestry

   land use

   property rights

   rural areas

   rural development

   sustainable development

   transaction costs

   natural disasters

   The report argues that Nicaragua's
   best hope for sustained growth, and poverty reduction,
   probably lies with agricultural exports, which have the
   potential to gain from opportunities in world markets.
   Despite the small share of farmland devoted to the
   production of exports (25 percent of harvested area), the
   total trade of agricultural goods (including the value of
   both imports, and exports) accounted for almost eighty five
   

4. Library Resource

   

   Drivers of Sustainable Rural Growth and Poverty Reduction in Central America : Nicaragua Case Study, Volume 2. Background Papers and Technical Appendices

   July, 2013

   Central America, Nicaragua

   agriculture

   capacity development

   decentralization

   development agencies

   food security

   land use

   property rights

   rural areas

   rural development

   rural population

   sustainable development

   transaction costs

   urban areas

   This regional study encompasses three
   Central American countries: Nicaragua, Guatemala, and
   Honduras. The focus of this report is Nicaragua. The
   objective of the study is to understand how broad-based
   economic growth can be stimulated, and sustained in rural
   Central America. The study identifies "drivers" of
   sustainable rural growth and poverty reduction, where
   drivers are defined as the assets and combinations of assets
   

5. Library Resource

   

   Policy and Investment Priorities to Reduce Environmental Degradation of the lake Nicaragua Watershed (Cocibolca) : Addressing Key Environmental Challenges - Study 2

   March, 2013

   Nicaragua

   agriculture

   climate change

   encroachment

   fisheries

   land degradation

   land tenure

   land use

   protected areas

   Globally, an estimated 24 percent of the
   disease burden (healthy life years lost) and an estimated 23
   percent of all deaths (premature mortality) are attributable
   to environmental risks (World Health Organization, or WHO
   2006). The burden of disease is unequally shared, with the
   children and the poor being particularly affected. Among
   children between the ages 0 and 14, the proportion of deaths
   attributable to environmental risks, such as poor water and
   

6. Library Resource

   

   Nicaragua - Land Policy and Administration : Toward a More Secure Property Rights Regime

   July, 2013

   Nicaragua

   Land & Investments

   agrarian reform

   agriculture

   farmers

   Indigenous Peoples

   land reform

   land tenure

   land use

   land-use planning

   landowners

   property rights

   rural development

   sustainable development

   transaction costs

   land valuation

   land markets

   This report centers on the problems
   stemming from land issues in Nicaragua. The report's
   main recommendations deal with four priority actions:
   institutional reform; adjustments to the legal framework;
   systematic regularization of land rights; and, firmly
   addressing previous land invasions, and preventing future
   invasions. The issue of land distribution, and ownership is
   especially critical in Nicaragua; indeed, the country
   

7. Library Resource

   

   Investment and Income Effects of Land Regularization : The Case of Nicaragua

   September, 2013

   Nicaragua

   land tenure

   agriculture

   forestry

   land ownership

   land reform

   land rights

   land titling

   land use

   property rights

   transaction costs

   The authors use data from Nicaragua to
   examine the impact of the award of registered and
   nonregistered title on land values and on investments
   attached to land. They find that receipt of registered title
   increases land values by 30 percent and greatly increases
   the propensity to invest, bringing investment closer to the
   optimum. Consistent with descriptive statistics indicating
   great demand for regularization of land rights, especially