Search Results - "América"

Distribution, growth, and performance of microfinance institutions in Africa, Asia, and Latin America by Lapenu, Cecile, Zeller, Manfred

“…In 1999, an International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) team on microfinance conducted a survey on MFIs in Asia, Africa, and Latin America in order to offer a new in-depth analysis on the distribution and performances of MFIs at the international level. …”
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Distribution, growth, and performance of microfinance institutions in Africa, Asia, and Latin America by Lapenu, Cecile, Zeller, Manfred

“…In 1999, an International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) team on microfinance conducted a survey on MFIs in Asia, Africa, and Latin America in order to offer a new in-depth analysis on the distribution and performances of MFIs at the international level. …”
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From the rural heart of Latin America: farmers, agricultural research and livelihoods by Schioler, Ebbe

“…Latin America has given the world many of its key agricultural products. …”
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The impact of structural reforms on growth in Latin America and the Caribbean: an empirical estimation by Escaith, Hubert, Morley, Samuel

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Agriculture, technological change and the environment in Latin America: a 2020 perspective by Trigo, Eduardo J.

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Agriculture, technological change and the environment in Latin America: a 2020 perspective by Trigo, Eduardo J.

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The 2020 Vision for Food, Agriculture and the Environment in Latin America: a synthesis by Garrett, James L.

“…The workshop on Latin America, jointly sponsored by the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT), and IFPRI, was held in Cali, Colombia, March 20-22, 1995. …”
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Facing up to inequality and exclusion to end poverty and hunger in Latin America by Ferroni, Marco A.

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Development under conditions of inequality and distrust: Social cohesion in Latin America by Ferroni, Marco A., Mateo, Mercedes, Payne, Mark

“…Using data and literature on Latin America, the paper argues that low interpersonal trust and entrenched inequality interfere with cohesion. …”
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Challenges to the 2020 Vision for Latin America: food and agriculture since 1970 by Garrett, James L.

“…In recent years, the countries of Latin America have made radical changes in their development strategies, including decentralization of government, privatization, and deregulation of markets. …”
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Agricultural R&D in Central America: Policy, investments and institutional profile by Stads, Gert-Jan, Hartwich, Frank, Rodríguez, David, Enciso, Francisco

“…Drawing from comprehensive datasets derived from primary surveys, this report reviews the major institutional developments and investment and human resource trends in public agricultural research and development (R&D) in the seven countries that constitute Central America: Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama. …”
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Challenges to the 2020 vision for Latin America: food and agriculture since 1970 by Garrett, James L.

“…In recent years, the countries of Latin America have made radical changes in their development strategies, including decentralization of government, privatization, and deregulation of markets. …”
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Agricultura, medio ambiente y pobreza rural en América Latina by Reca, Lucio G., Echeverria, Ruben G.

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Seguridad nutricional en las zonas urbanas de América Latina by Sanchez-Grinan, Maria Ines

“…En la actualidad, la población de América Latina es urbana en su mayoría. Ya en 1990, 72% de la población de la región vivía en las ciudades (figura 1). …”
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Key trends in public agricultural research capacity and investments in Central America by Stads, Gert-Jan

“…This brief provides an overview of the major investment trends in agricultural research in Central America since the early 1980s, drawing on a new set of data developed through a comprehensive survey by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA).…”
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Public agricultural research in Latin America and the Caribbean: Investment and capacity trends by Stads, Gert-Jan, Beintema, Nienke M.

“…The countries of Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) represent a wealth of natural resources; the world’s greatest agrobiodiversity; and immense economic, social, and environmental diversity. …”
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First report of cassava witches’ broom disease and Ceratobasidium theobromae in the Americas by Pardo, J. M, Gil-Ordoñez, A., Leiva, A. M., Enjelvin, L., Chourrot, A., Kime, S. C. K., Demade‐Pellorce, L., Marchand, M., Wilson, V., Jeandel, C., Ioos, R., Cuellar, W. J.

“…Cassava (Manihot esculenta) is a primary source of carbohydrates for millions of people in the tropics. In the Americas, cassava also holds deep cultural and economic significance for indigenous peoples (Parmar et al., 2017). …”
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Biofactories: new models for production and access to agricultural inputs in Latin America by Goulet, Frédéric, Guerrero Poveda, Daniela, Odjo, Sylvanus

“…The production and access to alternatives to chemical agricultural inputs are key issues today. In Latin America, solutions to these challenges (see Perspectives 55, May 2021) are becoming available thanks to the rise of biological inputs – including biofertilizers, biocontrol agents and biostimulants - resulting from many years of public investment in research and development, and a significant industrial drive in developing technologies based on micro-organisms, macro-organisms or plant extracts. …”
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Single torradovirus infections explain the mysterious cassava frogskin disease in the Americas by Jimenez, Jenyfer, Caicedo, Sara, Pardo, Juan M., Gil-Ordóñez, Alejandra, Alvarez-Quinto, Robert, Mollov, Dimitre, Cuellar, Wilmer J.

“…Cassava frogskin disease (CFSD) emerged in the Americas in the 1970s, but its causal agent has to date remained a mystery. …”
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La biotecnología agropecuaria en América Latina: Una visión cuantitativa by Falck-Zepeda, José B., Sampaio-Amstalden, Maria José, Solleiro Rebolledo, José Luis, Trigo, Eduardo J., Verástegui, Javier, Falconi, César A.

“…La biotecnología agropecuaria ha demostrado tener amplio potencial para ayudar a mejorar la eficiencia de la agricultura, el crecimiento económico y las políticas dirigidas a combatir a la pobreza, tanto en América Latina como en el resto del mundo. La amplia y creciente difusión de biotecnologías que aplican métodos de transformación genética en América Latina y en el mundo, es una muestra visible de su potencial. …”
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