Search Results - "Caribbean"

Natural disasters damage victims’ goals and ambitions — which is why disaster relief is so important by Mo, Cecilia Hyunjung, Kosec, Katrina

“…Virgin Islands and many Caribbean nations. Record rainfalls caused catastrophic damage.…”
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Livestock development strategies for low income countries. Proceedings of a roundtable by Wilson, R.T., Ehui, Simeon K., Mack, S.

“…The volume also contains reports of all the discussions and summarized reports of the working groups that were convened for subSaharan Africa and West Asia and North Africa, Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean. It is completed by a short report of the discussion at the final plenary session, the closing peroration and the recommendations of the Roundtable.…”
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CTA Annual Report 2015 - A year in review: Advancing agricultural transformation by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…The year also saw CTA securing new sources of funding, working to scale up ICTs to benefit large numbers of farmers and its involvement in many successful events. These included the Caribbean-Pacific Agri-Food Forum, which focused on promoting the engagement of the private sector and farmers’ organisations in transforming agriculture in the region, and numerous meetings on ‘open data’.…”
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Desarrollo de capacidades para un uso mas seguro y productivo de aguas residuales en agricultura en America Latina y el Caribe. In Spanish by Liebe, J., Mateo-Sagasta, Javier

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Aspectos economicos e institucionales en la reutilizacion de aguas y ejemplos en America Latina y el Caribe. In Spanish by Mateo-Sagasta, Javier, Qadir, Manzoor, Drechsel, Pay, Hanjra, Munir A.

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Briefing on CTA's key role in the ACP-EU partnership: Contributions to post-2020 discussions by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…The Technical Centre for Agriculture and Rural Cooperation (CTA) has been providing invaluable services to the agricultural and rural development community in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific (ACP) for over 30 years. …”
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Contribution of the EIARD Working Group on Restructuring of the CGIAR. by European Initiative for Agricultural Research for Development

“…The document proposes a vision for the future of the CGIAR with four main elements:1. strong national agricultural research systems and regional organizations;2. four regional CGIAR programs (for South and Southeast Asia, West Asia and North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America and the Caribbean);3. a single, centrally managed CGIAR research facility; and4. the use of task forces including IARCs, advanced research institutes, the private sector, NARS, NGOs and others to address specific research issues.…”
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Combining ability of tropical maize germplasm in West Africa. III. Tropical maize inbreds by Kim, S.K., Ajala, S., Brewbaker, J.L.

“…Dents and most flint lines were related to Caribbean germplasm. Grain yields of the 78 yellow hybrids were obtained from ten environments, whose averages ranged from 3.0 to 7.7 t/ha. …”
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Importancia del acceso a recursos genéticos de Musa en América Latina y el Caribe by Vézina, Anne

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Evaluación económica de materiales forrajeros en Colombia by Enciso, Karen, Burkart, Stefan

“…Savannah agrosavia for meat production in the Colombian humid Caribbean region. The methodology is based on a discounted free cash flow model, the estimation of financial feasibility indicators, and an analysis that is based on Monte Carlo simulation, to consider the risk level of critical variables of the model.…”
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Impact of micronutrients on upland rice yield, Nicaragua by Siles, Pablo, Tellez, Orlando, Peng, Yuan-Ching, Zeledón, Yasser

“…This dataset contains information of experiments carried out upland rice in two regions of Nicaragua (Caribbean and Pacific Region), as well as a compilation of soils data from different regions in Nicaragua collected from 2015 to 2019. …”
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Input Data for the IMPACT Model with Different Future Production Scenarios for Latin America by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…This input data set for the IMPACT model was specifically created for a study on the interdependencies between land and water resources, agricultural production and environmental outcomes in Latin America and the Caribbean. The data set contains baseline levels of land use, livestock production, water infrastructure, and trade parameters; as well as future scenarios of cultivated area growth, pasture area growth, and fertilizer intensity application.…”
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Trade and agroindustrialization in developing countries: trends and policy impacts by Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio, Reca, Lucio G.

“…In contrast, policies have had more mixed effects in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), and seem to have been just one component in a larger array of forces inhibiting economic development in Africa." -- from Abstract.…”
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Forests and the future: regional perspectives by Umeh, L.I., Omoluabi, C., Salleh, M.N., Prins, C., Tomaselli, I., Abdel Nour, H.O., Dombeck, M., Moad, A., Sayer, Jeffrey A.

“…Europe (Prins), Latin America and the Caribbean (Tomaselli), the Near East (Abdel Nour) and North America (Dombeck; Moad). …”
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Subunit vaccines for the control of Theileria parva by Musoke, A.J., Morzaria, S.P., Nene, Vishvanath M.

“…Heartwater is widespread in sub-Saharan Africa and has been introduced to the Caribbean Islands. All of the above tick-borne pathogens constitute a major impediment to the introduction of highly susceptible Bos Taurus cattle into endemic areas and are the cause of high morbidity and mortality. …”
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Economic impact assessment of Cowdria ruminantium infection and its control in Southern Africa by Minjauw, B., Kruska, Russell L., Odero, A., Randolph, Thomas F., McDermott, John J., Mahan, S.M., Perry, Brian D.

“…Heartwater is a tick-borne disease of cattle, sheep and goats and some wild ruminants prevalent in much of Africa and the Caribbean. It is caused by the rickettsial organism Cowdria ruminantium and transmitted by ticks of the genus Amblyomma. …”
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News releases by International Center for Tropical Agriculture

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Programa de mejoramiento 1981-1986 by Beebe, Stephen E.

“…A brief account of the bean breeding program for resistance to Thanatephorus cucumeris from 1981 to 1986 at CIAT and for Central America and the Caribbean is presented. Black and red bean parents used in the crossing programs are listed. …”
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Tropical forage-based systems for climate-smart livestock production in Latin America by Rao, Idupulapati M., Peters, Michael, Hoek, Rein van der, Castro, A., Subbaraoa, Guntur V., Cadisch, Georg, Rincón, A.

“…Tropical forage grasses and legumes as key components of sustainable crop-livestock systems in Latin America and the Caribbean have major implications for improving food security, alleviating poverty, restoring degraded lands and mitigating climate change. …”
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