Resultados de búsqueda - "Amazons"

Catalyzing and learning from private sector engagement: monitoring to generate evidence and learning por Caldas de Oliveira, Bernardo, Francesconi, Wendy, Rodríguez Sánchez, Beatriz, Deboni, Fabio

“…The program aims to transform the way we address biodiversity conservation in the Brazilian Legal Amazon, while improving the wellbeing of local communities. …”
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Co-creating a vision for the production system of La Montañita 20 years from now: A territory of food, biodiversity and hope por Lopez, María Claudia, Rodríguez, Luz A., Correal, Antonia

“…The development of bioeconomy alternatives in Caquetá offers the possibility to transform a territory currently dominated by pastures into places where forests used to stand and demonstrate the value of local identities and “campesino” livelihoods in the Amazon. Developing bioeconomies in this Colombian region implies reducing or eliminating deforestation, recovering soils and degraded ecosystems, diversifying products and adding value to Amazonian products, implementing sustainable practices in productive systems, strengthening of traditional Amazonian practices and equitable sharing benefits, and promoting women’s empowerment and integrating the youth into decision-making. …”
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Potencial productivo de los bosques secundarios de aitura de la zona de Pucalipa, Region Ucayali, Amazonia peruana por Galvan Gildemeister, O., Sabogal, C., Colan, V.

“…Twenty nine secondary forest stands with ages over four years were studied near Pucalipa in the Peruvian Amazon. Altogether 102 plant species 10 + cm dbh were recorded in the forest inventories. …”
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Agricultura familiar no nordeste paraense: informacoes preliminares como contribucao ao manejo sustentavel da capoeira por Carvalheiro, K. de O., Gonçalves, D. de A., Mattos, M.M., Ferreira, M. do S.G.

“…This extension booklet presents, in a simple language and aided by tables and illustrations, the initial results of a collaborative research project being carried out in the Bragantina and Guama regions, State of Para, in the Eastern Brazilian Amazon. The project aims to develop ways to increase the economic value of secondary forests growing in smallholder farms, and is coordinated by the Brazilian Enterprise for Agricultural Research (EMBRAPA), the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences of the State of Para (FCAP), the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and the Tropical Agricultural Centre for Research and Higher Education (CATIE). …”
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Conflicts and communal forest management in northern Bolivia por Jong, W. de, Ruíz, S., Becker, M.

“…Forest exploitation has been the main economic driver in the northern Bolivian Amazon. The country enacted changes in legislation and policies affecting natural resource governance. …”
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Overview of the WEB-GIS interface. por Fradi, Fajr, Le, Quang Bao, Bonaiuti, Enrico, Thomas, Richard, Lala-Pritchard, Tana, Holmes, Holly Anne

“…To check the GeOC tool, please follow this link: http://geoc.mel.cgiar.org To learn more about the project under which the GeOC tool is developed, please follow this link: https://mel.cgiar.org/projects/geoxc Acknowledgments: 'GeOC is the result of the synergic efforts by CGIAR Research Program on Dryland Systems (CRP-DS), the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) and its Geoinformatics Unit (GU), and is powered by iMMAP, Codeobia, D-Space and Amazon Web Services.'…”
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Effect of depth of placement on uptake of radioactive superphosphate by cacao (Theobroma cacao L.) por Oyejola, B.O.

“…Dos variedades de cacao, "Amazon F3" y "Amelonado" fueron tratadas con superfosfato radiactivo. …”
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Contenido y formas de fósforo de algunos suelos de la región amazónica del Estado de Maranhao, Brasil por FASSBENDER, H.W., Díaz, N.

“…These soils derived from cretaceous and quaternary sediments of the Amazonic Region showed a low content of total P. The organic P. contributed with a 73 and 70 per cent of total P for soils and subsoils respectively. …”
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Influence of simultaneous intercropping of maize-bean with input of inorganic or organic fertilizer on growth, development, and dry matter partitioning to yield components of two l... por Suárez, Juan Carlos, Anzola, José Alexander, Contreras, Amara Tatiana, Salas, Dina Luz, Vanegas, José Iván, Urban, Milan Oldřich, Beebe, Stephen E., Rao, Idupulapati M.

“…The field experiment was conducted in two seasons under conditions of acid soils and high temperatures in the western Amazon region of Colombia. Simultaneous intercropping patterns 1 and 2 had a negative effect on growth dynamics of maize compared to maize monoculture. …”
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Estimating use-values and relative importance of Amazonian flood plain trees and forests to local inhabitants por Kvist, L.P., Andersen, M., Hesselsoe, M., Vanclay, J.K.

“…We estimated use-values in three forest types (upper restinga, lower restinga, tahuampa) on the Amazon flood plain south of Iquitos (Peru), compared two methodologies, identified the most valuable species, and contrasted these valuations with the actual use of forest resources in local villages. …”
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Soybean technology and the loss of natural vegetation in Brazil and Bolivia por Kaimowitz, D., Smith, J.

“…This led to the displacement of many small farmers that moved to the Brazilian Amazon and clearing forests for agriculture. It may have also encouraged deforestation in southern Brasil itself. …”
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Empirical determination of political cultures as a basis for effective coordination of forest management systems por Pokorny, B., Schanz, H.

“…The authors conducted a pilot study in the eastern Amazon region to explore the possibility of characterizing individuals according to the four types of political culture defined by Thompson et al. …”
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Local stakeholders' participation in developing criteria and indicators for sustainable forest management por Pokorny, B., Prabhu, Ravi, McDougall, C., Bauch, R.

“…We asked four stakeholder groups to apply a set of C&I to a forest management unit in the eastern Amazon basin. The study confirmed the importance of involving stakeholders and demonstrated that effective efforts begin with well-defined and clearly understandable C&I. …”
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Land speculation and intensification at the frontier: a seeming paradox in the Colombian savanna por Smith, J., Cadavid Herrera, JV, Rincón Castillo, A., Vera, Raúl R.

“…Intensification occurred because the production gains offered by improved pastures over native grasses were large enough to overcome the negative effect of land speculation on intensification. By contrast, in the Amazon, improved technologies have to overcome the high fertility of newly deforested land. …”
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How forests attract rain: an examination of a new hypothesis por Sheil, Douglas, Murdiyarso, Daniel

“…Under this hypothesis, high rainfall occurs in continental interiors such as the Amazon and Congo river basins only because of near-continuous forest cover from interior to coast. …”
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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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Rethinking Fuelwood: People, Policy and the Anatomy of a Charcoal Supply Chain in a Decentralizing Peru por Bennett, A., Cronkleton, P., Menton, M., Malhi, Y.

“…We examine the commercial charcoal commodity chain from its production in Ucayali, in the Peruvian Amazon, to its sale in the national market. Using a mixed-methods approach, we look at the actors involved in the commodity chain and their relationships, including the distribution of benefits along the chain. …”
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Oil Palm Contract Farming in Brazil: Labour Constraints and Inclusivity Challenges por Brandão, F., Schoneveld, George C.

“…The Government of Brazil established their Sustainable Palm Oil Production Programme (SPOPP) in 2010, which sought to enhance the sustainability and inclusiveness of oil palm development in the Amazon. This paper evaluates how well oil palm contract farming promoted by SPOPP has delivered on its inclusive development objectives. …”
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Blind spots obscure understanding of how forests affect human health por Rosenstock, T.S., Rowland, D., Liew, Z., Hickson, K., Zeitler, L., McMullin, S., Jamnadass, R., Ickowitz, A.

“…For example, outbreaks of Ebola virus and hypotheses about the origins of SARS-CoV-2 have highlighted the risk of zoonotic spillover events from forest-dwelling animals.1, 2 Likewise, forest fires in Australia (2019–20), the Amazon rainforest (2019), and southeast Asia (2015) have drawn attention to the respiratory health effects on populations exposed to smoke and haze.3 Other links between forests and health, such as the role of forests in mitigating natural disasters4 and regulating infectious disease vectors,5 are well established but less well known outside the scientific community. …”
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Justicia energética desde el territorio: Lecciones desde la Amazonía brasileña por Castro-Diaz, Laura, Urbani, Ilaria, Howland, Fanny Cecile

“…Using the case of Vila Nova in the Brazilian Amazon, it shows how participatory methods reveal hidden impacts and support more just, sustainable solutions. …”
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