Search Results - "Caribbean"

Water efficiency: status and trends by Donoso, G., Aldaya, M. M., Sousa, C. de, Xueliang Cai, Chico, D., Miguel, A. de, Dumont, A., Gurovich, L., Lautze, Jonathan F., López Gunn, E., Pahlow, M., Palhares, J.C.P., Zarate, E.

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Bean program = Programa de fríjol by Beebe, Stephen E.

“…Our goals are to make bean production more profitable for small farmers in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and Africa; and to augment the nutritional value and supply of beans; targeting both resource-poor farmers and consumers, and specific groups such as people living with HIV/AIDS.…”
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Genomics for transforming yam breeding by Gedil, Melaku A, Bhattacharjee, Ranjana, López Montes, Antonio José

“…Yam (Dioscorea spp.), a multispecies, polyploidy, and vegetatively propagated crop, is an economically important staple food for more than 300 million people in West Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Caribbean. The five major yam-producing countries in West Africa (Bénin, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria, and Togo) account for 93% of worldwide production. …”
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Practical Handbook: For Managing Cassava Diseases, Pests, and Nutritional Disorders by Álvarez, Elizabeth, Bellotti, Anthony C., Calvert, Lee A., Arias V., Bernardo, Cadavid López, Luis Fernando, Pineda López, Benjamín, Llano Rodríguez, Germán Alberto, Cuervo Ibáñez, Maritza

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Algunas características físicas de la lluvia relacionadas con la erosión del suelo, en dos regímenes pluviométricos de Costa Rica by Jiménez, Amael, Jiménez Otárola, Francisco, Faustino, Jorge, Solís, Hernán

“…Rains' size, size distribution, and kinetic energy in two representative sites (Alajuela and Turrialba) of pluviometric rigemes predominant in Costa Rica (Caribbean and Pacific) were studied. Raindrops diameter ranged between 0,83 and 66 mm in Turrialba and between 0,75 and 7,1 mm in Alajuela. …”
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Plan of Action for Strengthening Global Agricultural Research: The NARS Perspective by CGIAR NARS Working Group

“…The document was prepared by a working group composed of representatives of regional fora held in Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, Sub Saharan Africa, and West Asia and North Africa. …”
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La yuca en la economia de America Latina by Cock, James H., Lynam, John K.

“…Data are presented for Brazil (the world's largest cassava producer), Paraguay (the Latin American country with the highest per capita cassava production), the Andean countries, Central America, and the Caribbean. An analysis of government policies in South America as a whole in the 1980s indicates reduced subsidies to products that compete with cassava, thus enhancing the competitive ability of the crop. …”
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The power of maps - Bringing the third dimension to the negotiation table by Pedrick, Clare

“…CTA has been in the forefront of activities to promote PGIS across African, Caribbean and Pacific countries. Impact assessments undertaken in all six ACP regions have documented how empowering PGIS can be for rural and at times marginalised communities. …”
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Preliminary results at IITA in breeding plantain for black sigatoka resistance in Africa by Swennen, Rony L., Vuylsteke, D.R.

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Impact of NPK fertilization 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 during 2019 in seed banks of rice and beans. …”
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Silvo-pastoral systems and public policies in Latin America: A comparative analysis by Moreno, Leonardo, Díaz, Manuel F., Burkart, Stefan

“…Latin America and the Caribbean play an essential role in the global cattle sector since they contribute more than 25% of the global beef and 10% of the global milk production. …”
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Spittlebugs (Hemiptera: Cercopidae): Integrated pest management on gramineous crops in the Neotropical Ecozone by Espitia, Paula A., Manzano, María R., Hernández, Luis Miguel

“…Mobilization toward sustainable crop and livestock systems to supply the growing demand of meat, milk, and sugar in Latin America and the Caribbean region implies developing sustainable and feasible strategies of integrated pest management to control spittlebugs. …”
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Herding cats: Facilitation in social learning processes by Hagmann, Jürgen, Chuma, E., Ramaru, J., Peter, H., Murwira, K., Ficarelli, P., Ngwenya, H., Krebs, K.

“…The chapter unpacks good process facilitation based on long-term experience over three decades in Eastern and Southern Africa, Asia and the Caribbean. It elaborates how such facilitation competences can be developed within institutions and communities. …”
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Optimizing legume seed production potential in the tropics: strategies for improving the distribution and replication of sustainable livestock by Sotelo, Mauricio E.

“…According to Gardi et.al., (2014) it is estimated that about 14% of degraded soils in the world are in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), so one of the current challenges is to recover the fertility of these so that the expansion of the agricultural frontier is gradually reduced.…”
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Evaluating Organizational Capacity Development by Mackay, Ronald, Horton, Douglas, Dupleich, Luis, Andersen, Anders

“…This article describes the conceptual frameworks and methods used to evaluate a multisite, regional capacity-development project in Latin America and the Caribbean undertaken to strengthen planning, monitoring, and evaluation in agricultural research organizations. …”
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Co-innovation and scaling: Local Technical Agroclimatic Committees by Castellanos, Andrea Estefania, Quintero, Diana Katherine, Lizarazo, Miguel, Martínez Barón, Deissy

“…This document is an integral part of a more extensive report that conducts a systematic review of various cases addressing participatory co-innovation models and approaches in the agri-food systems of Latin America and the Caribbean. The CGIAR's AgriLAC Resiliente initiative, especially its scaling component, aims to thoroughly analyze the co-innovation and scaling processes of these cases to identify and examine lessons learned, key enabling factors, and leverage points that trigger the scaling of agricultural innovations in specific contexts. …”
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Co-innovation and scaling: HarvestPlus by Quintero, Diana Katherine, Castellanos, Andrea Estefania, Lizarazo, Miguel, Martínez Barón, Deissy

“…This document is an integral part of a more extensive report that conducts a systematic review of various cases addressing participatory co-innovation models and approaches in the agri-food systems of Latin America and the Caribbean. The CGIAR's AgriLAC Resiliente initiative, especially its scaling component, aims to thoroughly analyze the co-innovation and scaling processes of these cases to identify and examine lessons learned, key enabling factors, and leverage points that trigger the scaling of agricultural innovations in specific contexts. …”
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Measures taken in the context of the Covid-19 and discussed at the WTO Committee on agriculture by Campos, Adriana

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Trade tensions in LAC: Modeling outcomes by Laborde Debucquet, David, Piñeiro, Valeria

“…In Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), trade tensions between the US and China and other US trade partners are expected to generate a mix of opportunities and threats for exporters of food products. …”
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Overcoming malnutrition: is there an ecoregional dimension? by Sharma, Manohar, Garcia, Marito, Qureshi, Aamir, Brown, Lynn R.

“…For example, much of Latin America and the Caribbean falls into ecoregions where children are prone to malnutrition, but the share of malnourished children is lower than would be expected because incomes are relatively high.…”
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