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Grasslands, cattle and land use in the neotropics and subtropics by Vera, Raúl R., Rivas Ríos, Libardo

“…The paper reviews trends in land use change in the tropics and subtropics of Latin America and the Caribbean, and their relation to the evolution of the cattle industry in the region. …”
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Patologia by International Center for Tropical Agriculture

“…Similar studies to identify the causal agent of the Caribbean cassava mosaic, observed in the northern coast of Colombia, detected an UV absorption curve typical of a nucleoprotein although no virus-like particles were observed. …”
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International cooperation by International Center for Tropical Agriculture

“…Research activities carried out by CIAT in collaboration with national research institutions for the improvement of bean production in the Central American and Caribbean region are analyzed. In 1981, preliminary trials (EP) were planted in Costa Rica and Guatemala in an effort to identify promising materials in terms of tolerance to web blight (Thanatephorus cucumeris), BGMV, angular leaf spot (Isariopsis griseola), rust (Uromyces phaseoli), anthracnose (Colletotrichum lindemuthianum), and Ascochyta leaf spot (Ascochyta fabae). …”
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Climate-Smart Agriculture in Zimbabwe by World Bank, CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security, International Center for Tropical Agriculture

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Evaluación de cargas parasitarias en un rebaño ovino de pelo en pastoreo semi-extensivo en el Caribe seco colombiano by Perdomo Ayola, Sandra Carolina, Rúa Bustamante, Clara Viviana, Zambrano Ortiz, Juan Ricardo, Rios de Alvarez, Leyla

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Biodiversity conservation in cacao agroforestry: medium-sized project by Global Environmental Facility, Oficina San José (Costa Rica)

“…According to the 1996 GRUAS report (GEF/UNDP/MINAE) which delineates existing biological corridors in Costa Rica, the conservation of the Talamanca-Caribbean corridor is critical for protecting biodiversity along the Atlantic Coast of Costa Rica because it is an area of high biological diversity and serves as a continuation of the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor (MBC).…”
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CATIE's gender policy

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Distribución y caracterización molecular de los virus SCYLV, SCMV en Saccharum sp. y PRSV-P en Carica papaya en Cuba by Aday-Díaz, Osmany, Puchades Izaguirre, Yaquelin, Cabrera Mederos, Dariel, González Ramírez, José Efraín, Portal, Orelvis

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SARS-CoV-2 in eight municipalities of the Colombian tropics: high immunity, clinical and sociodemographic outcomes by Garay, Evelin, Serrano Coll, Hector, Rivero, Ricardo, Gastelbondo, Bertha, Faccini Martinez, Alvaro, Berrocal, Jose, Perez, Alejandra, Badillo, Maria, Martinez Bravo, Caty, Botero, Yesica, Arrieta, German, Calderon, Alfonso, Galeano, Ketty, Lopez, Yesica, Miranda, Jorge, Guzman, Camilo, Contreras, Veronica, Arosemena, Alejandra, Contreras, Hector, Brango Tarra, Eimi, Oviedo Pastrana, Misael Enrique, Mattar, Salim

“…The goal of this study was to determine the clinical and sociodemographic dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 infection in a region of the Colombian Caribbean.Between July and November 2020, a cross-sectional observational study was carried out in Córdoba, located in northeast Colombia in the Caribbean area. …”
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Comparison of the Tercile and Probability Distribution Formats of Seasonal Forecast Information for Climate Services Applications by Siebert, Asher

“…Greater Horn of Africa, West Africa, Southern Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Caribbean and Latin America) have had a tendency to present their central findings in the format of consensus based maps of tercile probabilities of rainfall and temperature for the coming season. …”
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Integral assessment of productive and environmental parameters of a forage-based silvopastoral system by Arango, Jacobo, Sotelo Cabrera, Mauricio Efren, Gutiérrez Solís, Jhon Freddy, Hincapie, Belisario, Vázquez, Eduardo, Teutscherova, Nikola, Gaviria, Xiomara, Molina Botero, Isabel Cristina, Barahona Rosales, Rolando, Pulleman, Mirjam Margreet, Chirinda, Ngonidzashe, Peters, Michael

“…Improved pastures with environmental benefits alongside with good management have vast potential to support region and country-level strategies to address relevant challenges related to the livestock sector in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) (Rao et al, 2015). The LivestockPlus project seeks to apply the concept of sustainable intensification of livestock systems in two countries of the LAC region such as Costa Rica and Colombia, to provide technical support, generate critical information and guidelines necessary for identifying options while contributing to planning and policies for scaling up of NAMAs.…”
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Molecular breeding for nutritionally enriched maize: status and prospects by Boddupalli, P.M., Palacios Rojas, Natalia, Hossain, F., Muthusamy, V., Menkir, A., Dhliwayo, T., Ndhlela, T., San Vicente, F., Nair, S.K., Vivek, B.S., Zhang, X., Olsen, M., Fan, X.

“…Maize is a major source of food security and economic development in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), Latin America, and the Caribbean, and is among the top three cereal crops in Asia. …”
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Commune-level institutional arrangements and monitoring framework for integrated tree-based landscape management by Vu, T.P., Nguyen, V.T., Do, T.H.

“…It is also considered critical to the successful implementation of land-based climate mitigation, such as under Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), because the Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) sector is included in the mitigation contributions of nearly 90 percent of countries in Sub-Saharan and Southern Asia countries and in the Latin American and Caribbean regions (FAO 2016).…”
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Prioritizing partners and products for the sustainability of the EU’s agri-food trade by Zinngrebe, Yves, Berger, Jurij, Bunn, Christian, Felipe-Lucia, María R., Graßnick, Nina, Kastner, Thomas, Pe’er, Guy, Schleyer, Christian, Lakner, Sebastian

“…High leverage values in imports from African-Caribbean-Pacific small sugar specialists and other small countries highlight the EU’s potential to establish sustainability criteria. …”
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WTO dispute settlement cases involving Latin American countries and the agreement on agriculture, 1995-2019 by Gonzalez, Anàbel, Glauber, Joseph W.

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New disciplines for domestic support by Glauber, Joseph W., Laborde Debucquet, David, Piñeiro, Valeria

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MIRAGRODEP, an analytical model adapted to economic and trade reforms by Bouët, Antoine, Laborde Debucquet, David, Piñeiro, Valeria

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Food products, the WTO dispute settlement system and trade remedies by Bianchi, Eduardo

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Regional developments [in 2020 Global Food Policy Report] by Badiane, Ousmane, Collins, Julia, Makombe, Tsitsi, Abdelaziz, Fatma, Breisinger, Clemens, Khouri, Nadim, Thurlow, James, Akramov, Kamiljon T., Romashkin, Roman, Park, Allen, Ilyasov, Jarilkasin, Rashid, Shahidur, Ahmed, Akhter, Rana, Abdul Wajid, Chen, Kevin Z., Timmer, Peter, Dawe, David, Li, Mengyao, Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio, Piñeiro, Valeria

“…This section discusses problems, policies, and prospects for regional and national food systems in 2020 and beyond across the major regions: Africa, the Middle East and North Africa, Central Asia, South Asia, East and Southeast Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean. The challenges and potential of inclusion to transform food systems for better well-being and nutrition are examined for each region, along with other current topics…”
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Regional developments [In 2018 Global food policy report] by Makombe, Tsitsi, Collins, Julia, Ulimwengu, John M., Badiane, Ousmane, Breisinger, Clemens, Abdelaziz, Fatma, Khouri, Nadim, Akramov, Kamiljon T., Ilyasov, Jarilkasin, Park, Allen, Kumar, Anjani, Ahmed, Akhter, Davies, Stephen, Joshi, Pramod Kumar, Chen, Kevin Z., Timmer, Peter, Dawe, David, Wang, Zimeiyi, Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio, Piñeiro, Valeria

“…This section offers perspectives on food policy developments across the major regions: Africa, the Middle East and North Africa, Central Asia, South Asia, East and Southeast Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean. Globalization and the impact of growing antiglobalization pressures on food security are examined for each region, along with many other current topics.…”
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