Search Results - "Americas"

Contribution à l`étude de l`acquisition du pouvoir de panification de l`amidon de manioc: rôles de l`acide lactique et du rayonnement solaire by Aste, M

“…Fermented and sun-dried cassava starch posesses bread-making properties that are exploited in the making of various traditional foodstuffs in Latin America. A kinetic fermentation study and the washing of different sour cassava starch samples enabled the study of the specific effect of fermentation and lactic acid on the acquisiton of bread-making capacity. …”
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Review of CCAFS Capacity Enhancement activities by Climate Futures

“…These activities are undertaken across much of the developing world, defined into the regions, East Africa, West Africa, Latin America, Southeast Asia and South Asia (and to a lesser extent the Middle East and North Africa, East Asia, Central Asia and Global). …”
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Developing country consumers’ acceptance of biofortified foods: a synthesis by Birol, Ekin, Meenakshi, J.V., Oparinde, Adewale, Pérez, Salomón, Tomlins, Keith I.

“…This paper brings together evidence on consumer acceptance of biofortified crops on 5 crops across 7 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. The results of these studies are expected to aid in the development of biofortified crops that consumers like, as well as in the development of appropriate marketing and consumer awareness or information campaigns to encourage the switch in consumption from traditional staples to biofortified ones.…”
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Mobilizing private sector partners for climate action in the cocoa value chain by CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

“…The project leverages existing smallholder value chain interventions to translate climate science into actionable strategies for farmers and supporting actors, including agricultural businesses, voluntary certification schemes, and investors, across a number of geographies using smallholder coffee and cocoa systems in Africa and Latin America as model cases. Initial outcomes include a clear demand from private sector partners for improved information on climate change and cocoa in Ghana expressed by the widespread use of exposure maps at the recent global World Cocoa Foundation partnership meeting. …”
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Agronomic and economic contrasts between monocrop maize and associated maize/bean systems by Francis, C.A., Flor Montoya, Carlos A., Prager Mosquera, Martín

“…A large proportion of the maize planted in the tropics and highlands of Latin America is associated with beans and other crops. …”
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Global cassava research and development: the cassava demand studies and implications for the strategies for the CIAT cassava program by International Center for Tropical Agriculture

“…On the other hand, traditional food markets continue to dominate the overall demand for cassava in Latin America; only in Brazil do traditional dried cassava products dominate in overall cassava demand. …”
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Assessing the impact of integrated natural resources management: CIAT challenges and experiences by Gottret, María Verónica, White, D.

“…Advances and travails of CIAT scientists as they develop and implement an impact assessment (IA) framework for three integrated natural resources management (INRM) sites in Latin America (hillsides, savannas and forest margins) is presented. …”
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A second new world hoverfly, toxomerus floralis (Fabricius) (Diptera: Syrphidae), recorded from the old world, with description of larval pollen-feeding ecology by Jordaens, K., Goergen, Georg E., Kirk-Spriggs, A.H., Vokaer, A., Backeljau, T., Meyer, M.D.

“…Corroboration of this identification was made by sequencing of the standard COI barcode region and a subsequent BLAST-IDS in BOLD that revealed a 100% sequence similarity with Toxomerus floralis from Suriname (South America). Species identification was further supported by sequencing parts of the nuclear 18S and 28S rRNA genes. …”
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Priority regions for research on dryland cereals and legumes by Hyman, Glenn G., Barona, Elizabeth, Biradar, Chandrashekhar M., Guevara, Edward D., Dixon, John A., Beebe, Stephen E., Castaño, Silvia Elena, Alabi, Tunrayo, Gumma, Murali K., Rivera, Ovidio, Espinosa, Herlin, Cardona, Jorge

“…These regions include the dryer areas of South Asia, West and East Africa, the Middle East and North Africa, Central America and other parts of Asia. These regions are prone to drought and heat stress, have limiting soil constraints, make up half of the global population and account for 60 percent of the global poor and malnourished. …”
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Molecular and cytological characterization of the global Musa germplasm collection provides insights into the treasure of banana diversity by Christelova, P., Langhe, E. de, Hribova, E., Cizkova, J., Sardos, J., Husakova, M., Houwe, Ines van den, Sutanto, A., Kepler, A.K., Swennen, Rony L., Roux, N., Doležel, Jaroslav

“…With the annual production reaching 144 million tons, their production represents an important contribution to the economies of many countries in Asia, Africa, Latin-America and Pacific Islands. Most importantly, bananas are a staple food for millions of people living in the tropics. …”
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Climate-Smart Village Approach in Nepal: Learning from Global, Regional and Local Knowledge by CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

“…Nearly 100 representatives from various CGIAR centers, development partners and CCAFS regions (Latin America, West Africa, East Africa, South Asia, and Southeast Asia) participated. …”
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First experiences with a novel farmer citizen science approach: crowdsourcing participatory variety selection through on-farm triadic comparisons of technologies (TRICOT) by Etten, Jacob van, Beza, E., Calderer, L., Duijvebdijk, K. van, Fadda, Carlo, Fantahun, B., Kidane, Yosef Gebrehawaryat, Gevel, Jeske M.J, van de, Gupta, A., Mengistu, D.K., Kiambi, D., Mathur, P.N., Mercado, L., Mittra, S., Mollel, M.J., Rosas, J.C., Steinke, J., Suchini, J.G., Zimmerer, Karl S.

“…A novel citizen science methodology, triadic comparisons of technologies or tricot, was implemented in pilot studies in India, East Africa, and Central America. The methodology involves distributing a pool of agricultural technologies in different combinations of three to individual farmers who observe these technologies under farm conditions and compare their performance. …”
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Ex-ante Assessment of Drought Tolerant Bean Technology. A case study in the series: Economic Foresight for Understanding the Role of Investments in Agriculture for the Global Food... by International Center for Tropical Agriculture

“…While the suite of models employed examines the global picture, our focus is on the Latin America and the Caribbean region (LAC) and Africa. …”
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Phenotyping Brachiaria genotypes to assess Rhizoctonia resistance by comparing three inoculum types by Hernández, Luis Miguel, Sotelo, Guillermo, Bonilla, Ximena P., Álvarez, Elizabeth, Miles, John W., Worthington, Margaret

“…Rhizoctonia foliar blight, caused by Rhizoctonia solani, is an important disease of Brachiaria spp. in tropical America. Host-plant resistance is an attractive option for disease management. …”
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Estudio de caso: Almacenamiento de yuca fresca by Wheatley, Christopher C., Izquierdo, D.

“…Experience is needed in novel nontechnology aspects of product development to ensure replicability of these projects in other countries of Latin America and elsewhere. (CIAT)…”
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Characterization of Thielaviopsis paradoxa isolates from oil palm in Colombia, Ecuador and Brazil by Álvarez, Elizabeth, Llano Rodríguez, Germán Alberto, Loke, John Bernard, Chacón Sánchez, María I.

“…The genetic diversity of the isolates from South America was intermediate, and therefore, T. paradoxa is likely to be predominantly clonal compared with Ceratocystis species. …”
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Conceptual toolboxes for twenty-first-century ecologists by Reiners, William A., Pappas, Gregory S., Lockwood, Jeffrey A., Reiners, Derek S., Prager, Steven D.

“…We collected “usefulness” ratings of 131 normative concepts (i.e., what an ecologist ought to know) through an Ecological Society of America-wide survey and analyzed results through cluster analysis. …”
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National contributions to climate change mitigation from agriculture: allocating a global target by Richards, Meryl B., Wollenberg, Eva Karoline, Vuuren, Detlef P. van

“…Allocating mitigation targets according to responsibility for total historical emissions or capability to mitigate assigned large targets for agricultural emission reductions to North America, Europe and China. Targets based on responsibility for historical agricultural emissions resulted in a relatively even distribution of targets among countries and regions. …”
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Unlocking Big Data’s Potential to Strengthen Farmers’ Resilience: The Platform for Big Data in Agriculture by Jiménez, Daniel, Ramírez Villegas, Julián Armando

“…Yet many rural households in Africa, Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean are still behind in the ICT revolution. …”
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Reducing spatial variability of soybean response to rhizobia inoculants in farms of variable soil fertility in Siaya County of western Kenya by Thuita, Moses N., Vanlauwe, Bernard, Mutegi, E., Masso, C.

“…Soybean grain yields in sub-Saharan Africa have remained at approximately 50% below those attained in South America despite numerous efforts. A study was conducted in Siaya County (western Kenya) involving 107 farms with soils of different fertility status. …”
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