Resultados de búsqueda - "Amazons"

Transitioning to more sustainable, low-emissions agriculture in Brazil por Pinto LFG, Hajjar, Reem, Newton, Peter, Agrawal, A., Adshead D, Bini, Denici, Bogaerts, Meghan, Cirhigiri, Lora, Maguire-Rajpaul, Victoria Alice, Gonzáles Chaves, A., McDermott C, Milder, Jeffrey C., Pinho P, Robinson, I., Rodkin M, Wollenberg, Eva Karoline

Materias: “…amazon…”
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Connecting Space to Village Geospatial information for improved environmental decision making in the Amazon por International Center for Tropical Agriculture, Spatial Informatics Group, Conservación Amazónica, Institute of Agricultural and Forest Management and Certification

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Rural livelihood diversification decreases vulnerability to climate change in the Andean-Amazon foothills por Beltrán, Lucila Marcela, Cruz García, Gisella S., Pradhan, Prajal, Quintero, Marcela

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Action needed for staple crops in the Andean-Amazon foothills because of climate change por Beltrán Tolosa, Lucila Marcela, Navarro Racines, Carlos Eduardo, Pradhan, Prajal, Cruz García, Gisella S., Solis, Reynaldo, Quintero, Marcela

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Major shifts in Amazon wildlife populations from recent intensification of floods and drought por Bodmer, R., Mayor, P., Antunez, M., Chota, K., Fang, T., Puertas, P., Pittet, M., Kirkland, M., Walkey, M., Ríos, C., Pérez Peña, P., Henderson, P., Bodmer, W., Bicerra, A., Zegarra, J., Docherty, E.

“…In the western Amazon Basin, recent intensification of river‐level cycles has increased flooding during the wet seasons and decreased precipitation during the dry season. …”
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Strengthening social inclusion within oil palm contract farming in the Brazilian Amazon por Brandão, F., Schoneveld, George C., Pacheco, P.

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Gender relations and inequalities in the Amazon: The potential of geospatial systems to address gender inequalities por Twyman, Jennifer, Acosta, Mariola, Irigoyen, Marina

“…These actions can improve local capacity in the use and exploitation of satellite data and geospatial information to facilitate, strengthen, and promote sustainable natural resource management throughout the Amazon.…”
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Spatio-temporal dynamics of the dual-purpose cattle value chain in the Colombian Amazon por Lienert, Anja, Burkart, Stefan

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Information exchange patterns and technology adoption behavior of cattle farmers in the Colombian Amazon por Lienert, Anja, Lippert, Christian, Burkart, Stefan

“…This is particularly true in the Caquetá Department, located in the Colombian Amazon, which has the country's fifth largest cattle herd and the highest deforestation rate. …”
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Declining Amazon biomass due to deforestation and subsequent degradation losses exceeding gains por Fawcett, D., Sitch, S., Ciais, Philippe, Wigneron, J.P., Silva Junior, C.H.L., Heinrich, V., Vancutsem, C., Achard, F., Bastos, A., Yang, H., Li, X., Albergel, C., Friedlingstein, P., Aragão, Luiz E.O.C

“…In the Amazon, deforestation and climate change lead to increased vulnerability to forest degradation, threatening its existing carbon stocks and its capacity as a carbon sink. …”
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Living-lab for people in the Colombian Amazon: a pact for a sustainable territory por Rodriguez, Luz Angela, Vanegas, Martha

“…The department of Caquetá, within the Colombian Amazon, is one of the main contributors to land change and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the country due to the functioning of its food systems. …”
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Spatio-temporal dynamics of the dual-purpose cattle value chain in the Colombian Amazon por Lienert, Anja, Burkart, Stefan

“…The cattle sector plays an important role in the economy of the Caquetá department, located in the Colombian Amazon. However, the predominantly extensive production system is associated with low productivity and negative environmental impacts, such as land degradation, greenhouse gas emissions, and deforestation. …”
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Sociotechnical innovations for low emissions food systems: A state of the art for the Amazon por Clavijo Ponce, Neidy Lorena

“…Fighting Amazon deforestation and adopting low-emission agriculture presents a double win: strengthening local food systems' resilience to climate change while contributing to global climate mitigation efforts. …”
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Impacts of climate change and the end of deforestation on land use in the Brazilian legal amazon por Lapola, David Montenegro, Schaldach, Ruediger, Alcamo, Joseph, Bondeau, Alberte, Msangi, Siwa, Priess, Joerg A., Silvestrini, Rafaella, Soares-Filho, Britaldo Silveira

“…Climate change scenarios vary considerably over the Amazon region, with an extreme scenario projecting a dangerous (from the human perspective) increase of 3.8°C in temperature and 30% reduction in precipitation by 2050. …”
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Dynamics of the agricultural frontier in the Amazon and savannas of Brazil: analyzing the impact of policy and technology por Smith, J., Winograd, Manuel, Gallopin, G., Pachico, Douglas H.

“…While many goverment policies stimulating deforestation have been reserved, private sector lobbies for uncontrolled logging and soybean export corridors threaten the Amazon. Under a favorable scenario (macroeconomic stabilization, controlled logging and road building, sustainable technologies, global environmental markets) reconversion of natural habitat could be 30% lower than under unfavorable policies and technologies, without sacrificing production…”
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Favouring local development in the Amazon: lessons from community forest management initiatives por Medina, G., Pokorny, B., Campbell, Bruce M.

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Paying for avoided deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon: from cost assessment to scheme design por Borner, J., Wunder, Sven

“…Forest loss in the Brazilian Amazon has traditionally been highest in the world and, thus, represents a likely target for future REDD initiatives. …”
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Social geomatics: participatory forest mapping to mediate resource conflict in the Bolivian Amazon por Cronkleton, P., Albornoz, M.A., Barnes, G., Evans, K., Jong, W. de

“…This paper describes a participatory mapping method field tested with agro-extractive settlements in the Bolivian Amazon. A regional transition from customary to formal property rights resulting from sweeping 1996 land tenure reforms has led to confusion and conflicts over resource rights, a problem compounded by recent high market prices for Brazil nuts. …”
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Grounding the REDD+ debate: preliminary evidence from pilot initiatives in the Brazilian Amazon por Center for International Forestry Research

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Deforestation and the social impacts of soy for biodiesel: Perspectives of farmers in the South Brazilian Amazon por Lima, M., Skutsch, M., Medeiros Costa, G. de

“…Soy occupies large parts of the Cerrado biome and has now reached the Amazon, and concerns have been raised about both the environmental and social impacts of this. …”
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