, and
Leonardo Garcia Centero for support with soil analyses at UNAManagua. This work was part of the project “Eco-efficient crop and
livestock production for the poor farmers in the sub-humid hillside areas of Nicaragua” coordinated by the International Center
for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) in collaboration with University of
Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences (BOKU – Austria), Instituto Nicaragüense de Tecnología Agropecuario (INTA – Nicaragua),
Universidad Nacional Agraria (UNA – Nicaragua), Consorcio para el
Manejo Integrado de Suelos (MIS – Nicaragua) and funded in part by
the Federal Ministry of Finance (BMF) of the Republic of Austria and
the Austrian Development Agency (ADA). Additional funding support was provided by the INDICS project from the French Fondation
pour la Recherche sur la Biodiversité