Search Results - "Americanization"

Comparison of two growth charts in Lesotho: health workers' ability to understand and use them for action by Ruel, Marie T., Pelletier, David L., Habicht, Jean-Pierre, Mason, John B., Chobokoane, C. S., Maruping, Arapang P.

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Epidemiologic and clinical aspects of a Rift Valley Fever outbreak in humans in Tanzania, 2007 by Mohamed, M., Mosha, F., Mghamba, J., Zaki, S.R., Wun-Ju Shieh, W.J., Paweska, J., Omulo, S., Gikundi, S., Mmbuji, P., Bloland, P., Zeidner, N., Kalinga, R., Breiman, R.F., Njenga, M.K.

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Predicting External Fruit Color for Grapefruit As Affected By Drought Stress by Zhang, Congmu, Hoogenboom, Gerrit, Ritenour, Mark, Pérez-Pérez, Juan G., Alam-Eldein, Shamel, Boote, Kenneth, Munoz-Carpena, Rafael, Sargent, Steven A.

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Building food security and resilience through intraregional trade in Latin America and the Caribbean by Illescas, Nelson, McNamara, Brian, Piñeiro, Valeria, Rodriguez, Agustín Tejeda

“…About 60 percent of South American food imports come from regional suppliers, but only 20 percent of Mexican and Central American imports come from LAC suppliers. …”
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Lupin, Lupinus L. by Cowling, Wallace A., Buirchell, B.J., Tapia, M.E., Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research, International Plant Genetic Resources Institute

“…This monograph focuses on the Mediterranean lupin species and one South American species (L. mutabilis). These species have relatively large seeds and some of them have already been domesticated and have become established crops. …”
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Sustainable Territories Adapted to the Climate: Insights from a New University Course Designed and Delivered in Guatemala by Vernooy, Ronnie, Bouroncle, Claudia, Sandoval Roque, Víctor Augusto, García, José Ramiro

“…Since 2014, the CGIAR research program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security has collaborated with different stakeholders to implement climate change adaptation approaches and practices in critical locations in the Central American Dry Corridor. A new university course for professionals in the Dry Corridor aims to scale these approaches and practices. …”
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Annual report 2020: CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets by CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets

“…At the global level, PIM research was used to shape strategic decisions of organizations such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, GIZ, the Inter-American Development Bank, the UK Government's Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, the World Bank and the World Health Organization. …”
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Joint decision-making and women’s agency on small-scale farms in Colombia and Nicaragua by García, Maria Alejandra, Godek, Wendy, Twyman, Jennifer

“…This study focuses on rural communities in two Latin American countries, Nicaragua and Colombia. We begin with a brief discussion of the recent literature on household decision-making. …”
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Diploma Course on Digital Agriculture in Guatemala by Jiménez, Daniel, Martínez, Jesús David, Muñoz, Armando, García, Ramiro, Borrayo, Andrea, Ramírez Villegas, Julián Armando, Sandoval, Victor

“…CGIAR Research Initiatives on Digital Innovation and AgriLAC Resiliente have collaborated with different stakeholders to implement digital agriculture approaches for professionals in critical locations in the Central American Dry Corridor in 2022. The university diploma course aimed to strengthen the technical capacity of agricultural professionals in digital agriculture and allow them to make more informed, data-driven decisions in agrifood systems. …”
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Introducing the Ag-Incentives Consortium and Database by Tokgoz, Simla, Laborde Debucquet, David, Lallemant, Tess, Majeed, Fahd, Martin, Will

“…The objective of this initiative is to bring together information on agricultural incentives from five key institutions: FAO-MAFAP; the Inter-American Development Bank; IFPRI; the OECD and the World Bank. …”
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Likely effects of a trade war for US agriculture? Sad! by Glauber, Joseph W.

“…Yet, that support came despite promises made by President-elect Trump during the campaign to levy taxes against China exports to the United States, to renegotiate NAFTA, to withdraw from the Transpacific Partnership (TPP) agreement, and to pull the US out of the World Trade Organization if membership in the global trade body interferes with his plan to impose penalties on companies that move American production offshore. Early actions taken by President-elect such as the appointment of so-called trade hawks to key trade positions suggest the aggressive stance taken in the campaign will likely carry over to his new Administration.…”
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Reply to Storey et al.: More DNA and dating studies needed for ancient El Arenal-1 chickens by Gongora, J., Rawlence, N.J., Mobegi, V.A., Alcalde, J.A., Matus, J.T., Hanotte, Olivier H., Moran, C., Austin, J.J., Ulm, S., Larson, G., Cooper, A., Han Jianlin

“…In their letter, Storey et al. (1) concede that there is no direct genetic support for Polynesian–South American contact. However, they claim that linguistic, archaeological, and ethnohistoric evidence supports Polynesia as the most likely source of the El Arenal-1 chickens. …”
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Chapter 11 - Traditional uses, processing, and markets: the case of sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.) by Heider, B., Paredes, N.J., Sørensen, M.

“…As an ancient Latin American and major root crop, the sweetpotato has a long domestication history involving large areas in Central and South America. …”
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Eroding knowledge: an ethnobotanical inventory in Eastern Amazonia's logging frontier by Shanley, P., Rosa, N.A.

“…Differences between use-values reported in other South American inventories include: a higher degree of trade in timber; a lack of trade in non-timber products; the decreasing use of plants for technological purposes and the description of the use of many species in the past tense. …”
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Effect of hot air, solar and sun drying treatments on protavitamin A retention in orange-fleshed sweetpotato by Bechoff, Aurélie, Dufour, D.L., Dhuique-Mayer, Claudie, Marouzé, Claude, Reynes, M, Westby, Andrew

“…Different drying treatments, cross flow, greenhouse solar, and open-air sun, were applied to an American orange-fleshed sweetpotato variety. Trans-?…”
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Inheritance of anthracnose resistance in common bean accession G 2333 by Pastor Corrales, Marcial A., Erazo, OA, Estrada Salazar, EI

“…Common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) germ plasm accession G 2333 (Colorado de Teopisca) from Mexico was resistant to 380 isolates of the anthracnose pathogen (Colletotrichum lindemuthianum) from 11 Latin American countries. Six frequently used sources of resistance were susceptiblc to many isolates. …”
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Tracing the origin of Spanish common bean cultivars using biochemical and molecular markers by Ocampo Nahar, César H., Martin, J,P, Sánchez Yélamo, María Dolores, Ortíz, J.M., Toro Chica, Orlando

“…Fifty-four accessions of Phaseolus vulgaris cultivated in Spain and representing a broad variability for this country, were studied together with 30 samples of wild forms of American origin. Two reference cultivars (from the Andes and Mesoamerica) plus two outgroups (P. coccineus and Vigna unguiculata) were also included. …”
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Perfiles de la pobreza y la desigualdad en América Latina by Rivas Ríos, Libardo

“…The generation of employment is basic to any strategy that aims to reduce poverty. Many Latin American farmers own insufficient land, if any, a factor that prevents them from producing enough to leave poverty behind. …”
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Vivero Centroamericano de Adaptacion y Rendimiento, VICAR 1981 y 1982 by International Center for Tropical Agriculture

“…In the 2nd semester of 1981 and in 1982, VICAR (Central American bean yield and adaptation nursery) carried out field tests with red and black- grain materials, with the participation of national programs from Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Guatemala. …”
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Agroecology and Climate Change Resilience: In Smallholder Coffee Agroecosystems of Central America by Morris KS, Méndez, V.E., Zonneveld, M. van, Gerlicz A, Caswell, M.

“…Despite these synergies, the livelihoods of Central American smallholder coffee farmers are in a precarious state due to their exposure and sensitivity to common stressors and shocks, including the seasonality of incomes, volatile commodity prices and natural disasters (Jha et al., 2014). …”
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