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Caracterización de variedades cultivadas de café (Coffea arabica L.) conservadas en el Banco de Germoplasma del CATIE by Astorga Domian, Carlos G.

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Sistemas de información sanitario productivo de Canadá : Proyecto mejoramiento de la salud de los rebaños lecheros de Quebec

“…En la década de los años 80, en varios países de América la capacidad de respuesta de los servicios públicos disminuye bruscamente, hasta ese momento los productores siempre fueron agentes pasivos en Ia formulación de políticas de Salud Animal y solicitaban de un constante apoyo estatal, en esa época se produce un cambio en la aplicación del modelo económico vigente a la fecha , a esto se suma una excesiva centralización, situaciones que producen una disminución en la capacidad de los servicios de atención veterinaria. …”
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Desarrollo de la Oferta de "Sabor Chilote M.R.", en base a Materias Primas Campesinas de Chiloé, Procesadas y Conservadas en Vidrio Orientadas al Nicho de Productos Gourmet de Expo...

“…Punta Chilén y la Marca Sabor Chilote, en los últimos 3 anos, han desarrollado avances importantes y talvez sin precedentes para la agricultura campesina de Chiloé y de la décima región, con avances tales como: mejorar la infraestructura de planta y contar con ares de proceso con altos estándares sanitarios, adquirir equipamiento de última generación en algunas etapas de proceso, mejorar el producto, desarrollar la imagen del mismo y desarrollar avances comerciales con ventas en Bélgica, con 30.000 unidades vendidas, y misiones comerciales a América del Norte, México, EEUU y Canadá. No obstante, esos importantes avances junto con representar altas expectativas para el sector, también representan un nuevo escenario para la empresa y para la Marca Sabor Chilote, y un nuevo desafío, cual es la necesaria consolidación de producto y de marca, para completar el ciclo de competitividad de su oferta y posicionarla en forma sustentable en los nichos de mercado convocados.…”
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Impacto del cambio climático en la producción de cacao para Centroamérica y El Caribe. Atlas by Bunn, Christian, Lundy, Mark M., Wiegel, Jennifer Rebecca, Castro-Llanos, Fabio Alexander

“…El presente documento es un atlas de Centro América y El Caribe que proporciona información general sobre los diferentes grados de esfuerzo de adaptación necesarios para mitigar los impactos del cambio climático en la producción de cacao. …”
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A Review of Angular Leaf Spot Resistance in Common Bean by Nay, Michelle M., Souza, Thiago L. P. O., Raatz, Bodo, Mukankusi, Clare Mugisha, Gonçalves-Vidigal, Maria C., Abreu, Angela F.B., Melo, Leonardo C., Pastor-Corrales, Marcial A.

“…Furthermore, we are reporting three case studies of ALS resistance breeding in Latin America and Africa. This review will serve as a reference for future resistance mapping studies and as a guide for the selection of resistance loci in breeding programs aiming to develop common bean cultivars with durable ALS resistance.…”
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CCAFS Site Portfolio: Core Sites in the CCAFS Regions: East Africa, West Africa and South Asia by Förch, Wiebke, Kristjanson, Patricia M., Thornton, Philip K., Kiplimo, Joyce, Sijmons, Koert, Mutie, Ianetta, Cramer, Laura K., Radeny, Maren A.O., Moussa, Abdoulaye S., Bhatta, Gopal Datt

“…Two additional target regions (Southeast Asia and Latin America) were added in late 2012. This report outlines the site selection process of current and future sites and provides a brief overview of the initially selected CCAFS sites.…”
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Managing Fertilizer Recommendations in Rice-Based Cropping Systems Challenges and Strategic Approaches by Bado, V.B., Djaman, K., Valère, M.C.

“…Fertilizer is a powerful productivity-enhancing input, but farmers of SSA use only 5 to 9 kg ha−1 of fertilizer, ten time less than Latin America and Asia (50 and 80 kg ha−1, respectively). …”
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Single and Multi-trait GWAS Identify Genetic Factors Associated with Production Traits in Common Bean Under Abiotic Stress Environments by Oladzad, Atena, Porch, Timothy G., Rosas, Juan Carlos, Moghaddam, Samira Mafi, Beaver, James S., Beebe, Stephen E., Burridge, Jimmy, Jochua, Celestina Nhagupana, Miguel, Magalhaes Amade, Miklas, Phillip N., Raatz, Bodo, White, Jeffrey W., Lynch, Jonathan P., McClean, Phillip E.

“…Moderately sized Bean Abiotic Stress Evaluation (BASE) panels, consisting of genotypes appropriate for production in Central America and Africa, were assembled. Phylogenetic analyses demonstrated the BASE populations represented broad genetic diversity for the appropriate races within the two gene pools. …”
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Impacto del cambio climático en la producción de café en México y Centroamérica by Bunn, Christian, Lundy, Mark M., Castro-Llanos, Fabio Alexander

“…El presente documento es un atlas de Centro América y El Caribe que proporciona información general sobre los diferentes grados de esfuerzo de adaptación necesarios para mitigar los impactos del cambio climático en la producción de café. …”
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Bibliography on underutilized roots and tubers crops by Libreros, D., International Plant Genetic Resources Institute

“…There are also several species of roots and tubers which originated from South America and which are still of importance to Andean people, such as yacon, white carrot, mauka, maca, achira, oca, mashua and ulluco. …”
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Dairy science and health in the tropics: Challenges and opportunities for the next decades by Hernández Castellano, L.E., Nally, J.E., Lindahl, Johanna F., Wanapat, M., Alhidary, I.A., Fangueiro, D., Grace, Delia, Ratto, M., Bambou, J.C., Almeida, A.M. de

“…In the next two decades, the world population will increase significantly; the majority in the developing countries located in the tropics of Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean. To feed such a population, it is necessary to increase the availability of food, particularly high-value animal protein foods produced locally, namely meat and dairy products. …”
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Modelled distributions and conservation priorities of wild sorghums (Sorghum Moench) by Myrans, Harry, Diaz, Maria V., Khoury, Colin K., Carver, Daniel, Henry, Robert J., Gleadow, Roslyn

“…Location: The study covered the potential native ranges of wild Sorghum taxa worldwide, including Australia, New Guinea, Asia, Africa and Central America. Methods: We modelled the distributions of 23 wild Sorghum taxa, characterized their ecogeographic niches, assessed their conservation status both ex situ and in situ and performed preliminary threat assessments. …”
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Comprehensive genomic resources related to domestication and crop improvement traits in Lima bean by García, Tatiana, Duitama, Jorge, Smolenski-Zullo, Stephanie, Gil, Juanita, Ariani, Andrea, Dohle, Sarah, Palkovic, Antonia, Skeen, Paola, Bermudez-Santana, Clara Isabel, Debouck, Daniel G., Martínez Castillo, Jaime, Gepts, Paul L., Chacón-Sánchez, Maria Isabel

“…These adaptations make it a promising crop for improving food security under predicted scenarios of climate change in Latin America and elsewhere. In this work, we combine long and short read sequencing technologies with a dense genetic map from a biparental population to obtain the chromosome-level genome assembly for Lima bean. …”
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Boletín Centroamericano, Clima y Agricultura No.1 by Comité Regional de Recursos Hidráulicos, Sistema de la Integración Centroamericana, Consejo Agropecuario Centroamericano, Alianza Bioversity Internacional y el CIAT, CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

“…El comportamiento esperado para el trimestre es producto del LXI Foro del Clima de América Central, realizado del 15 al 17, en el mismo participaron expertos de México, Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panamá y República Dominicana. …”
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Rice Observatory: Monitoring survey and open access data for the rice sector version 1.0 by Andrade, Robert Santiago, Urioste, Sergio, Lourido, Derlyn, Vergara, Jose Daniel, Marín, Diego, Loaiza, Katerine, Moná, Andrea, García, Carolina, Graterol Matute, Eduardo Jose, Labarta, Ricardo Antonio

“…El Observatorio del Arroz es una iniciativa liderada por el Laboratorio de Economía Aplicada de la Alianza de Bioversity International y el Centro de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT) , con apoyo del Fondo Latinoamericano para Arroz de Riego (FLAR), para establecer un sistema de información que provea indicadores relacionados al contexto productivo del arroz en América Latina. Incluye datos relacionados al contexto del arroz en cada país, información del sistema de producción, información de comercio y competitividad, datos de consumo de arroz, políticas e incentivos en el sector, inventario de tecnologías relacionadas con el arroz, noticias recientes sobre el arroz, inventario de requerimientos de calidad del cultivo del arroz e indicadores agronómicos de la región. …”
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Incentive-based conservation in Peru: Assessing the state of six ongoing PES and REDD+ initiatives by Montoya Zumaeta, J.G., Wunder, Sven, Tacconi, L.

“…Incentive-based conservation has gained ample notoriety over recent decades, particularly across Latin America where targeted incentives feature prominently in environmental services initiatives, such as for carbon storage or watershed regulation. …”
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Flow cytometry-based determination of ploidy from dried leaf specimens in genomically complex collections of the tropical forage grass Urochloa by Tomaszewska, Paulina, Pellny, Till K., Hernández, Luis Miguel, Mitchell, Rowan A. C., Castiblanco, Valheria, Vega, Jose J. de, Schwarzacher, Trude, Heslop-Harrison, J.S.

“…Urochloa (including Brachiaria, Megathyrus and some Panicum) tropical grasses are native to Africa and are now, after selection and breeding, planted worldwide, particularly in South America, as important forages with huge potential for further sustainable improvement and conservation of grasslands. …”
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Local to continent-scale variation in fitness and heritability in common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) cultivars by MacQueen, Alice H., Khoury, Colin K., Miklas, Phillip N., McClean, Phillip E., Osorno, Juan M., Runck, Bryan C., White, Jeffrey W., Kantar, Michael, Ewing, Patrick M.

“…Three‐hundred and twenty‐seven common bean genotypes had seed yield measured at subsets of 70 sites across North America between 1981 and 2015, as part of the Cooperative Dry Bean Nursery (CDBN). …”
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Sustainable management of transboundary pests requires holistic and inclusive solutions by Boddupalli, P.M., Carvajal-Yepes, Mónica, Kumar, P. Lava, Kawarazuka, Nozomi, Liu, Yanyan, Mulema, Annet A., McCutcheon, S., Ibabao, Xenina

“…Most of the low- and middle-income countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America are not fully prepared in terms of surveillance, diagnostics, and deployment of plant health solutions due to several factors: adequate investment is lacking; knowledge is inadequate; and connections from the local to global, and global to local are insufficient. …”
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Mapping Climate-Agriculture-Gender Inequity Hotspots to Build Resilience by Mishra, Avni, Lecoutere, Els, Puskur, Ranjitha, Koo, Jawoo, Azzarri, Carlo

“…To this end, we studied 87 low- to middle-income countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America to understand different climate change risks as well as impacts on women engaged in agriculture. …”
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