Resultados de búsqueda - "Amazons"

  1. Physicochemical, Functional, and Macromolecular Properties of Waxy Yam Starches Discovered from Mapuey (Dioscorea trifida) Genotypes in the Venezuelan Amazon por Pérez, E., Gibert, Olivier, Rolland Sabaté, Agnès, Jiménez, Y., Sánchez, T., Giraldo, A., Pontoire, B, Guilois, S, Lahon, MC, Reynes, M, Dufour, D.L.

    Publicado 2010
    “…Mapuey tubers in Venezuela are staple food for indigenous peoples from the Caribbean coast and Amazon regions. Noticeable differences between genotypes of yam starches were observed. …”
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  2. Climate change mitigation through intensified pasture management: Estimating greenhouse gas emissions on cattle farms in the Brazilian Amazon por Bogaerts, Meghan, Cirhigiri, Lora, Robinson, Ian, Rodkin, Mikaela, Hajjar, Reem, Costa, Ciniro, Newton, Peter

    Publicado 2016
    “…We surveyed 40 cattle ranchers located in the Brazilian Amazon biome to investigate how GHG emissions differed between farms participating in livestock sustainability programs with intensified production and farms not participating in these programs. …”
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  3. Climate change mitigation through intensified pasture management: Estimating greenhouse gas emissions on cattle farms in the Brazilian Amazon por Bogaerts, Meghan, Cirhigiri, Lora, Robinson, Ian, Rodkin, Mikaela, Hajjar, Reem, Costa, Ciniro, Newton, Peter

    Publicado 2017
    “…We surveyed 40 cattle ranchers located in the Brazilian Amazon biome to investigate how GHG emissions differed between farms participating in livestock sustainability programs with intensified production and farms not participating in these programs. …”
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  4. NTFP harvesters as citizen scientists: Validating traditional and crowdsourced knowledge on seed production of Brazil nut trees in the Peruvian Amazon por Thomas, E., Valdivia, J., Alcázar Caicedo, Carolina, Quaedvlieg, J., Wadt, Lucia Helena O., Corvera, R.

    Publicado 2017
    “…Brazil nut (Bertholletia excelsa, Lecythidaceae) seed harvesting from natural forests is one of the cornerstone NTFP economies in Amazonia. In the Peruvian Amazon it is organized in a concession system. Drawing on seed production estimates of >135,000 individual Brazil nut trees from >400 concessionsand ethno-ecological interviews with >80 concession holders, here we aimed to (i) assess the accuracy of seed production estimates by Brazil nut seed harvesters, and (ii) validate their traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) about the variables that influence Brazil nut production. …”
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  5. Management and Motivations to Manage “Wild” Food Plants. A Case Study in a Mestizo Village in the Amazon Deforestation Frontier por Cruz García, Gisella S.

    Publicado 2017
    “…This study was conducted in a mestizo village in the Peruvian Amazon deforestation frontier, with the objective of documenting the management practices, including the human-induced movement of wild food plant species across the forest-agriculture landscape, and the motivations that farmers have to manage them using a qualitative ethnobotanical approach. …”
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  6. Classifying the risk of forest loss in the Peruvian amazon rainforest: An alternative approach for sustainable forest management using artificial intelligence por Goycochea Casas, Gianmarco, Baselly Villanueva, Juan Rodrigo, Coimbra Limeira, Mathaus Messias, Eleto Torres, Carlos Moreira Miquelino, Garcia Leite, Hélio

    Publicado 2023
    “…In this study, we propose an alternative approach to decision-making for forest preservation, aiming to classify the risk of forest loss in districts within the Peruvian Amazon rainforest. This classification enables sustainable forest management. …”
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  7. Making the best of two worlds: rural and peri-urban livelihood options sustained by nontimber forest products from the Bolivian Amazon por Stoian, D.

    Publicado 2005
    “…In the northern Bolivian Amazon, however, NTFP-based benefits also accrue to peri-urban populations. …”
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  8. From fish and bushmeat to chicken nuggets: the nutrition transition in a continuum from rural to urban settings in the Colombian Amazon region por Vliet, N. van, Quiceno Mesa, M.P., Cruz Antia, D., Tellez, L., Martins, C., Haiden, E., Ribeiro Oliveira, M., Adams, C., Morsello, C., Valencia, L., Bonnila, T., Yagüe, B., Nasi, Robert

    Publicado 2015
    “…In this study we focus on wild sources of animal protein: wild fish and bushmeat, which have traditionally been important in people's diets in the Amazon. We compare the consumption of wild and non-wild (domestic, processed) sources of animal proteins in a rural to urban gradient in the Colombian Amazon. …”
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