Extensive land use and the logic of the latifundio: A case study in Guanacaste Province,Costa Rica |
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Authors: | Marc Edelman |
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Institution: | (1) North American Congress on Latin America, 151 West 19th Street, 10011 New York, New York |
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Abstract: | Traditional explanations of extensive land use on large unproductive estates in Latin American have failed to understand important aspects of the economic and political logic behind such enterprises. This article examines the reasons for the low productivity of cattle ranches over a period which spans the consolidation of haciendas in a frontier zone and their subsequent integration into the international beef market. The persistence of extensive land use in a modern export economy is explained as resulting from characteristics of the world beef market, local ecology, the Costa Rican credit and tax systems, and the social composition and political power of the landowning class. |
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Keywords: | land use land tenure cattle Costa Rica |
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