Resultados de búsqueda - "Amazon"

Assessment of the facilitation process of establishing a living lab for co-creating locally-led climate action in Caquetá/Colombia por Falk, Thomas, Rodríguez, Luz A., Vanegas, Martha, Nehring, Ryan, Calle, Johana, Lopez, Maria

“…In the Department of Caquetá, within the Colombian Amazon, the program supports a place-based and community-led living lab focused on inclusion, environmental justice, and peacebuilding—an initiative participants have termed the “Participatory Rural Innovation Lab: Towards a Sustainable Territory” (PRIL). …”
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Land use change and agriculture development in Santa Cruz, Bolivia por Pacheco, P., Mertens, B.

“…The department of Santa Cruz in Bolivia makes part of the Amazon basin, and it embraces a large portion of the Bolivian lowland forest, with most of its area covered by semideciduous forest. …”
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Criterios e indicadores para el monitoreo de operaciones forestales un caso en Brasil por Pokorny, B., Sabogal, C., Silva, J.N.M., Lima, J., Bernardo, P.

“…A test in two forest management units located in the Eastern Amazon region of Brazil confirmed the technical-financial viability of the systematic monitoring of sustainability by forest enterprises. …”
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Pobreza, descentralizacion y bosques en el norte amazonico boliviano por Fuentes, D., Haches, R., Maldonado, R., Albornoz, M.A., Cronkleton, P., Jong, W. de, Becker, M.

“…The first three chapters form the introduction to a detailed analysis of poverty in the Amazon region of northern Bolivia, a region that relies largely on forestry production, and where CIFOR has been conducting social research since the mid 1990s. …”
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The impact of climate changes during the Holocene on vegetation in northern French Guiana por Freycon, V., Krencker, M., Schwartz, D., Nasi, Robert, Bonal, D.

“…The impact of climatic changes that occurred during the last glacial maximum and the Holocene on vegetation changes in the Amazon Basin and the Guiana Shield are still widely debated. …”
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Early adoption of Arachis pintoi in the humid tropics: The case of dual-purpose livestock systems in Caquetá, Colombia por Rivas Ríos, Libardo, Holmann, Federico J.

“…The early adoption of the legume Arachis pintoi was studied in the State of Caquetá, located in Colombia’s Amazon region. Data came from 174 farmers randomly surveyed within the area of influence of Nestlé, a multinational milk-processing company. …”
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Tenure Security and Land Appropriation under Changing Environmental Governance in Lowland Bolivia and Pará por Pacheco, P., Benatti, J.H.

“…Appropriation of public lands associated with agricultural frontier expansion is a longstanding occurrence in the Amazon that has resulted in a highly skewed land-tenure structure in spite of recent state efforts to recognize tenure rights of indigenous people and smallholders living in or nearby forests. …”
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Biomass production of tropical trees across space and time: The shifting roles of diameter growth and wood density por Hornink, Bruna, Zuidema, Pieter A., van der Sleen, Peter, Zanne, Amy E., Assis Pereira, Gabriel, Ortega Rodriguez, Daigard Ricardo, Fontana, Claudia, Portal Cahuana, Leif Armando, Requena Rojas, Edilson Jimmy, Campos Barbosa, Ana Carolina Maioli, Granato-Souza, Daniela, Guimarães Pereira, Lucas, Lisi, Claudio Sergio, Nunes Menezes, Itallo Romany, Venegas Gonzalez, Alejandro, Jaén Barrios, Nelson, Roig, Fidel A., Tomazello Filho, Mario, Groenendijk, Peter

“…We examined both long-term (ontogenetic) and short-term (annual) variations in diameter growth and wood density, covering eighteen sites in the Amazon rainforest, Atlantic Forest, Cerrado savanna and Caatinga dry forest. 4. …”
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Avaliação de impactos econômicos, ambientais e de segurança alimentar em sistemas agroflorestais de agricultores familiares do Paraná, Brasil por Sellarin Alves, Amanda

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Land speculation and conservation policy leakage in Brazil por Miranda, J., Borner, J., Kalkuhl, M., Soares Filho, B.

“…The Brazilian Amazon and Cerrado biomes have been subject to strong pressure from agricultural expansion over the past two decades. …”
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Drivers of transgression: What pushes people to enter protected areas por Ponta, N., Cornioley, T., Waeber, Patrick O., Dray, A., Vliet, N. van, Quiceno Mesa, M.P., Garcia, C.A.

“…By using a role-playing game with Indigenous people in the Colombian Amazon we were able to openly discuss transgression. …”
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Strategies and priorities for African agriculture: Economywide perspectives from country studies por Diao, Xinshen, Thurlow, James, Benin, Samuel, Fan, Shenggen

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Building value chains for indigenous fruits: Lessons from camu-camu in Peru por Blare, Trent, Donovan, Jason

“…This paper examines experiences in Peru in building the value chain for camu-camu—a fruit native to the Amazon that is in the process of being domesticated. …”
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CIFOR’s strategy for collaborative forestry research por Center for International Forestry Research

“…Borneo); the uplands of mainland Southeast Asia; the tropical moist forests of the western Amazon; and the mixed forest systems of Central America.…”
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Some doubts about concessions in Brazil: should Brazil shelve its proposed system of forest concessions? por Merry, F., Amacher, G.S., Pokorny B., Lima, E., Scholz, I., Nepstad, D.C., Zweede, C.J.

“…The government of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil inherited, in its National Forest Program, a formidable proposal to increase the area designated to national forests (FLONAs) in the Amazon from eight to 50 million hectares by the year 2010. …”
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Forum sobre bosques, gestion y desarollo: opciones para la Amazonia por Pokorny, B., Sabogal, C., Kramer, F.

“…In order to present and discuss the various proposals and visions on the role of forests in the fight against poverty and to promote the sustainable development of the Amazon region, CIFOR, together with its partners - EMBRAPA, GTZ, PROMANEJO/IBAMA and IMAZON- held a forum under the title "Forest Management and Development: Options for Amazonia" The events gave an opportunity for researchers, experts on rural development initiatives and also politicians involved in the issue to present and discuss the various proposals on the theme. …”
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Forum sobre florestas, gestao e desenvolvimento: opcoes para a Amazonia por Pokorny, B., Sabogal, C., Kramer, F.

“…In order to present and discuss the various proposals and visions on the role of forests in the fight against poverty and to promote the sustainable development of the Amazon region, CIFOR, together with its partners - EMBRAPA, GTZ, PROMANEJO/IBAMA and IMAZON- held a forum under the title "Forest Management and Development: Options for Amazonia" The events gave an opportunity for researchers, experts on rural development initiatives and also politicians involved in the issue to present and discuss the various proposals on the theme. …”
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Constraints and opportunities for better silvicultural practice in tropical forestry: an interdisciplinary approach por Walter, B.B., Sabogal, C., Snook, Laura K., Almeida, E. de

“…To illustrate this approach, this paper presents three case studies of research on tropical silviculture practice from each of Philippines, Brazilian Amazon and Mexico. Findings from these studies indicate that a variety of factors may influence whether or not silvicultural practices are adopted. …”
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Diversity of the calabash tree (Crescentia cujete L.) in Colombia por Arango Ulloa, A.J., Bohórquez Cháux, Adriana, Duque E., Myriam Cristina, Maass, Brigitte L.

“…Germplasm of the calabash tree (Crescentia cujete L.) was collected in five major regions of Colombia, i.e. the Andes, Caribbean, Amazon, Orinoco, and Pacific regions. Collecting this multipurpose tree was guided by the indigenous knowledge of farmers and artisans in each region. …”
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Biodiversity, epidemiology and virulence of Colletotrichum gloeosporioides. I. Genetic and pathogenic diversity in Colletotrichum gloeosporioides isolates from Stylosanthes guianen... por Kelemu, Segenet, Badel, JL, Moreno, CX, Miles, John W., Chakraborty, S., Fernandes, C.D., Charchar, Maria José

“…Isolates from Carimagua, Colombia, a savanna ecosystem and a long-time Stylosanthes breeding and selection site, exhibited a relatively wider range of genetic diversity than those from a newly opened trial site in the Amazon basin of Colombia. No strict correlation existed between genetic diversity, as measured by RAPD, and differential virulence, as defined by the pathotype. …”
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