Resultados de búsqueda - "Americanization"

Nonenzymatic β-Carotene Degradation in Provitamin A-Biofortified Crop Plants por Schaub, Patrick, Wüst, Florian, Koschmieder, Julian, Yu, Qiuju, Virk, Parminder Singh, Tohme, Joseph M., Beyer, Peter

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International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) por Pineda López, Benjamín, Huertas D., Carlos Alberto, Iwanaga, Masaru, Morales, Francisco José

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Unpacking Intra-Household Decision-Making on Smallholder Farms in Colombia and Nicaragua to Foster Climate Change Adaptation por Godek, Wendy, García, María Alejandra

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Alley cropping intercropped maize and cassava and sequentially cropped maize and cowpea in southern Nigeria por Palada, M.C., Gichuru, M., Kang, B.

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Desarrollo de Vínculos entre Pequeños Productores Centroamericanos con Mercados de Cafés Especiales

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Genome assembly of six polyploid potato genomes por Kyriakidou, M., Anglin, Noelle L., Ellis, David, Tai, H.H., Stromvik, M.V.

“…The need for conservation and enhanced understanding of genetic diversity of cultivated potato from South America is also crucial to North American and European cultivars. Here, we report draft genomes from six polyploid potato landraces representing five taxa, illustrating how Third Generation Sequencing can aid in assembling polyploid genomes.…”
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Improvement of smallholder farming systems in Africa por Wortmann, Charles S., Amede, Tilahun, Bekunda, Mateete A., Ndung’u-Magiroi, K., Masikati, Patricia, Snapp, Sieglinde S., Stewart, Zachary P., Westgate, M., Zida, Z., Kome, C.E.

“…These lessons were reported in a symposium hosted by the Agronomy in Africa community of the American Society of Agronomy. The lessons, listed in order of frequency of reporting, were the need to: have adequate infrastructure and services; enable spontaneous adoption; have multi‐disciplinary and institutional collaboration; build on previous adoption of good agronomic practices (GAP); have farmer participation in research; encourage and learn from smallholder adaptations; make GAP promotion demand‐driven; allow GAP choices; address challenges and trade‐offs to GAP adoption; enable GAP‐by‐GAP adoption; reconcile conflicting messages; offer adequate profit potential with acceptable risk; reduce labor needs, especially for women; and build capacity for farming system improvement along the chain from farmer to research. …”
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Presentations for Emerging Trends in the Global Soybean Complex por Yang, Di, Hitchner, Joanna, Cooper, Darren, Costa, Ramiro

“…This seminar will explore the market outlook for soybeans and vegetable oils, and examine the implications of the US biodiesel industry and recent developments in South American soybean production.…”
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Asset maintenance as hidden investment among the poor and rich: Application to housing por Hernandez, Manuel A., Trupkin, Danilo R.

“…We test our predictions using a panel of homeowners from the American Housing Survey for 1997-2011. We find that the income elasticity of maintenance is higher among low- versus high-income households and that the adjustment differences are more acute for permanent than for transitory income changes. …”
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The Emperor’s new NAFTA por Glauber, Joseph W.

“…On September 30, 2018, the United States and Canada announced they had reached an accord in their renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). That agreement followed the announcement in August that bilateral negotiations between Mexico and the United States had been concluded. …”
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Trade: The free flow of goods and food security and nutrition por Martin, Will, Laborde Debucquet, David

“…But in today’s climate of skepticism about globalization, with longstanding trade agreements such as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) under threat, the benefits of trade may be forgotten as negative impacts are emphasized by advocates of trade barriers and self-sufficiency. …”
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The emergence of microbiological inputs and the challenging laboratorisation of agriculture: lessons from Brazil and Mexico por Goulet, Frédéric, Fonteyne, Simon, Lopez-Ridaura, Santiago, Niederle, Paulo, Odjo, Sylvanus, Schneider, Sergio, Verhulst, Nele, Van Loon, Jelle

“…In this article, we analyse the tensions associated with the emergence of microorganism-based agricultural inputs in two Latin American countries, Brazil and Mexico. More specifically, we examine the ways in which these technologies, which are based on the use of living organisms, leave public microbiology research laboratories and are further developed by manufacturers or farmers. …”
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Cash transfer programs with income multipliers: PROCAMPO in Mexico por Sadoulet, Elisabeth, Davis, Benjamin, De Janvry, Alain

“…This paper analyzes the PROCAMPO program in Mexico, which was introduced to compensate farmers for the anticipated negative effect of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on the price of basic crops. …”
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Cash transfer programs with income multipliers: PROCAMPO in Mexico por Sadoulet, Elisabeth, Davis, Benjamin, De Janvry, Alain

“…This paper analyzes the PROCAMPO program in Mexico, which was introduced to compensate farmers for the anticipated negative effect of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on the price of basic crops. …”
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The role of agriculture in development: Implications for Sub-Saharan Africa por Diao, Xinshen, Hazell, Peter B. R., Resnick, Danielle, Thurlow, James

“…While the continent does face new and different challenges than those encountered by Asian and Latin American countries during their successful transformations, most African countries cannot significantly reduce poverty, increase per capita incomes, and transform into modern economies without focusing on agricultural development.…”
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The role of agriculture in development: Implications for Sub-Saharan Africa por Diao, Xinshen, Hazell, Peter B. R., Resnick, Danielle, Thurlow, James

“…While the continent does face new and different challenges than those encountered by Asian and Latin American countries during their successful transformations, most African countries cannot significantly reduce poverty, increase per capita incomes, and transform into modern economies without focusing on agricultural development.…”
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The role of agriculture in development: implications for Sub-Saharan Africa por Diao, Xinshen, Hazell, Peter B. R., Resnick, Danielle, Thurlow, James

“…While the continent does face new and different challenges than those encountered by Asian and Latin American countries during their successful transformations, most African countries cannot significantly reduce poverty, increase per capita incomes, and transform into modern economies without focusing on agricultural development.…”
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Policies affecting deforestation for cattle in Central America. por Kaimowitz, D.

“…This study uses the Central American experience to put forth some hypotheses about the factors influencing forest conversion to pasture, and about how effective policies have been or are likely to be in addressing the problems arising from conversion. …”
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New U.S. tariff policies: What’s at stake for sub-Saharan Africa? por Piñeiro, Valeria, Gianatiempo, Juan Pablo, Traoré, Fousseini, Glauber, Joseph W.

“…Current U.S. trade policies—though primarily focused on major global players including China, the European Union, and North American partners Canada and Mexico—also have economic consequences for smaller countries and regions around the world. …”
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First records of the sugar cane and forage grass pest, Prosapia simulans (Homoptera: Cercopidae), from South America por Peck, DC, Castro, U., López, F., Morales Rodriguez, A., Rodríguez Chalarca, Jairo

“…Evidence suggests that this Central American sugar cane and forage grass pest is a well-established new arrival, thereby representing a new threat to pasture production and potential threat to cane production in Colombia's Cauca Valley. …”
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