Search Results - "Caribbean"
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The importance of women’s status for child nutrition in developing countries
Published 2003“…This study explores the relationship between women’s status and children’s nutrition in three developing regions: South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC)." -- from text…”
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The importance of women’s status for child nutrition in developing countries
Published 2003“…This study explores the relationship between women’s status and children’s nutrition in three developing regions: South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC)." -- from text…”
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Searching for an alternative to economic partnership agreements
Published 2007“…On January 1, 2008, Economic Partnerships Agreements (EPAs), currently being negotiated between the European Union (EU) and nearly 80 African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) countries, are expected to replace the Cotonou Agreement, which has governed trade relations between these countries since 2000. …”
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Agrilac: Integración mitigación del cambio climático y desarrollo sostenible
Published 2024“…The AgriLAC Resilient project drives strategies that integrate climate change mitigation with sustainable development objectives in agroecosystems and value chains across Latin America and the Caribbean. This video highlights key achievements, including the implementation of Sustainable Land Use Systems (SLUS), the creation of enabling conditions for sustainable practices, the strengthening of value chains, and the mobilization of resources through innovative mechanisms. …”
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Strengthening capacities for the scaling of Local Technical Agroclimatic Committees through collaborative action
Published 2025“…The Climate Action Platform in Agriculture for Latin America and the Caribbean (PLACA) prioritized Local Technical Agroclimatic Committees (LTACs, MTAs in Spanish) in their 2024 action plan as a strategic mechanism to enhance climate resilience and sustainability in agriculture. …”
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Breeding black sigatoka resistant plantains with a wild banana.
Published 1993“…Plantain (Musa spp., AAB group), an important staple food crop in the lowland humid tropics of Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean, is threatened by a fungal leaf spot disease called black Sigatoka. …”
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Global climate change and food supply chains: policies for collective adaptation
Published 2013“…According to climate model predictions, most parts of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) will see significant temperature increases and changes in precipitation by 2050. …”
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Taller de Mustia Hilachosa (Thanatephorus cucumeris) (2, 1986, San José, Costa Rica). Conferencias
Published 1987“…The 11 conferences given at the 2nd Web Blight (Thanatephorus cucumeris) workshop held in San Jose, Costa Rica, in Nov. 3-7, 1986, as part of CIAT`s Bean Regional Project for Central America and the Caribbean, are presented. Research progress in bean breeding for resistance to T. cucumeris and disease control in Costa Rica, Guatemala, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, and Panama are presented. …”
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Cracking patterns in big data saves Colombian rice farmers’ huge losses
Published 2016“…The team then fed patterns in climate and yields into a computer model and predicted a drought in the Caribbean department of Córdoba, which led it to conclude that farmers in some regions could save themselves from crop failure by not planting at all.…”
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Beef sector: Agritrade Executive Brief Update 2013
Published 2013“…Although a number of ACP countries are seeking to develop beef production for national, regional and international markets, big challenges exist in terms of compliance with sanitary and phytosanitary standards, reliability of the traceability systems, intense competition (such as from the US and UK in Africa and from Brazil in the Caribbean) and high feed costs. After the EU banning of Botswana’s beef export on SPS grounds, Namibia remained the only ACP consistent beef exporter to the EU, and most ACP countries are limiting international ambitions and focusing mainly on national and regional beef markets as the key to future growth. …”
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Why Invest in ICTs for agriculture?
Published 2018“…Through case studies and examples of ICT4Ag initiatives from across Asia, the Caribbean and sub-Saharan Africa, the first chapter looks at how ICT4Ag actually works to drive economic development across developing economies.…”
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Enhancing next-generation ACP agribusiness through digitalisation
Published 2019“…Do innovative digital solutions improve the performance, competitiveness and profitability of farmer-oriented agribusinesses in African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries? Thirty practitioners attending a recent CTA workshop zoomed in on real cases to test this question, assessing what works, how and why and drawing out insights and lessons – actionable knowledge – for wider application. …”
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An Indicative Medium Term Plan for ILRI
Published 1994“…The plan was considered "indicative" pending more interaction with other centers and national systems and consideration by the Director General and Board of ILRI following the formal opening of the new center in January 1995.The main headings were: animal health, animal genetics, integrated production systems, ecoregional research in mixed livestock production systems (in Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and West Asia and North Africa), socioeconomics and livestock policy, institution building and technology transfer, management, administration and operations.Agenda document at TAC 64 and CGIAR International Centers Week, October 1994.…”
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Multiscale interactions of climate variability and rainfall in the Sogamoso River Basin: Implications for the 1998–2000 and 2010–2012 multiyear La Niña events
Published 2022“…Therefore, during this event, the quasi-biennial (interannual) scale promoted wet conditions in the Caribbean, the Andes, and the Colombian Pacific from June–August (JJA) 1998 to JJA 1999 (during 1999–2000). …”
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