Resultados de búsqueda - "Caribbean"

Cassava Annual Report 2020 por Becerra-Lopez Lavalle, Luis Augusto, Newby, Jonathan Craig, Zhang, Xiaofei, Bohorquez-Chaux, Adriana, Malik, Imran, Cuéllar, Wilmer Jose, Delaquis, Erik, Slavchevska, Vanya, Tran, Thierry, Chavarriaga, Paul, Escobar Pérez, Roosevelt Humberto

“…The RSAs help integrate work on cassava with the Alliance’s strategy and lever structure, and also provide us with an overarching framework for prioritizing investments and delivering impacts in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC )and Southeast Asia (SEA), while supporting the work of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) in sub-Saharan Africa. …”
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Effects of adopting improved forages on poverty alleviation in cattle systems: Evidence from Colombia por Enciso, Karen, Bravo, Aura, Álvarez, Diego A., Burkart, Stefan

“…This study aims at measuring the impacts of adopting improved forages in cattle systems in three Colombian cattle regions: Caribbean coast, Orinoquia, and Amazon. We use Propensity Score Matching to assess the contribution of improved forages on producer welfare (Progress out of Poverty Index (PPI) and Household Dietary Diversity Score (HDDS)). …”
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Incident type 2 diabetes attributable to suboptimal diet in 184 countries por O’Hearn, Meghan, Lara-Castor, Laura, Cudhea, Frederick, Miller, Victoria, Reedy, Julia, Shi, Peilin, Zhang, Jianyi, Wong, John B., Economos, Christina D., Micha, Renata, Mozaffarian, Dariush, Global Dietary Database, de Brauw, Alan, Moursi, Mourad

“…Across regions, highest proportional burdens were in central and eastern Europe and central Asia (85.6% (83.4–87.7%)) and Latin America and the Caribbean (81.8% (80.1–83.4%)); and lowest proportional burdens were in South Asia (55.4% (52.1–60.7%)). …”
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The global burden of high fasting plasma glucose associated with zinc deficiency: Results of a systematic review and meta-analysis por Wirth, James P., Zeng, Wu, Petry, Nicolai, Rohner, Fabian, Glenn, Scott, Donkor, William, Wegmuller, Rita, Boy, Erick, Lividini, Keith

“…While the disease burden is highest among populous countries (e.g., China, India, USA), the population-standardized DALYs are highest among island nations, particularly island nations in the South Pacific and Caribbean. While ZD accounts for a small share of the high FPG disease burden, the total number of DALYs far surpasses other estimates of the disease burden attributable to ZD, which focus on diarrheal diseases in childhood. …”
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Food systems, obesity, and gender in Latin America por Biermayr-Jenzano, Patricia

“…Other themes to take into account are the effects of rural poverty and gender inequality on these populations across Latin America and the Caribbean. It is a matter of urgency to understand the underlying causes of some populations’ being more affected by overweight and obesity than others, as this will allow governments to design policies that tackle those problems at their root. …”
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Food security portal por International Food Policy Research Institute

“…The portal will contain relevant food crisis response information initially on its 20 partner countries (mostly in Sub-Sahara Africa, but also in Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean) and shall be expanded beyond these pre-selected countries in the context of the project. …”
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Stable isotope composition of long and short term carbon pools can screen drought tolerance in cassava por Van Laere, Jonas, Martinez Maya, Maria Alejandra, Selvaraj, Michael Gomez, Becerra-Lopez-Lavalle, Luis Augusto, Guzmann, Diego, Casas, Jorge Andres, Merckx, Roel, Hood-Nowotny, Rebecca, Dercon, Gerd

“…We compared the δ13C values at bulk root initiation stage of fourteen genotypes grown in the wet (1450 mm annual rainfall) and dry Caribbean (950 mm annual rainfall). We focused on both non-structural (soluble sugars) as well as structural (cellulose) carbohydrate pools across multiple leaf positions. …”
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Implementation of a tunnel system for scaling-out high-quality cassava planting material por Pérez-Pazos, Jazmín Vanessa, Fuentes-Cassiani, Deimer, Regino, Sol-Mara, García, Jorge-Luis, Osorio, Nilson, Espitia, Amaury, Araujo, Hernando, Escobar-Perez, Roosevelt, Rosero, Amparo

“…This study appraised the performance of four industrial cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) varieties—Corpoica Tai, Corpoica Belloti, Corpoica Ropain, and Corpoica Sinuana—under tunnel conditions at two locations on the Caribbean coast of Colombia. Planting material consisted of mini-cuttings (7–9 months old) with three buds. …”
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Indicators of soil quality: a South-South development of a methdological guide for linking local and technical knowledge por Barrios, E., Delve, Robert J., Bekunda, Mateete A., Mowo, J., Agunda, J, Ramisch, Joshua J., Trejo Tercero, M.T., Thomas, Richard J.

“…This methodological guide was initially developed and used in Latin America and the Caribbean-LAC (Honduras, Nicaragua, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, Dominican Republic), and was later improved during adaptation and use in eastern African (Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia) through a South–South exchange of expertise and experiences. …”
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Physicochemical, Functional, and Macromolecular Properties of Waxy Yam Starches Discovered from Mapuey (Dioscorea trifida) Genotypes in the Venezuelan Amazon por Pérez, E., Gibert, Olivier, Rolland Sabaté, Agnès, Jiménez, Y., Sánchez, T., Giraldo, A., Pontoire, B, Guilois, S, Lahon, MC, Reynes, M, Dufour, D.L.

“…Mapuey tubers in Venezuela are staple food for indigenous peoples from the Caribbean coast and Amazon regions. Noticeable differences between genotypes of yam starches were observed. …”
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Cassava program por International Center for Tropical Agriculture

“…CIAT's regional responsibilities in Latin America and the Caribbean, sub-Saharan Africa, and southern and eastern Asia are discussed. …”
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Capacitación científica y actividades de las redes por International Center for Tropical Agriculture

“…A summary of the network research activities in beans in Central America, the Caribbean, Brazil, Peru, and Eastern Africa is presented. …”
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Scientific training and network activities por International Center for Tropical Agriculture

“…A summary of the network research activities in beans in Central America, the Caribbean, Brazil, Peru, and Eastern Africa is presented. …”
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Fondo Latinoamericano para arroz de riego (FLAR): nueva asociación para el sector arrocero por Zorrilla de San Martín, Gonzalo

“…FLAR, currently formed by agricultural institutions of 15 countries of the region, strives to serve its partners in three areas: development of technology to achieve a competitive, profitable, efficient, and environmentally sustainable crop; reduction of unitary production costs to indirectly favor consumers; and strengthening of the national rice sectors of Latin America and the Caribbean.…”
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Carbon stocks of intact mangroves and carbon emissions arising from their conversion in the Dominican Republic por Kauffman, J.B., Heider, C., Norfolk, J., Payton, F.

“…In this study we quantified the ecosystem carbon stocks of three common mangrove types of the Caribbean as well as those of abandoned shrimp ponds in areas formerly occupied by mangrove—a common land‐use conversion of mangroves throughout the world. …”
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Evaluation of cocoa (Theobroma cacao) clones at the artificial inoculation of Moniliophthora roreri in Tingo María, Perú por Paredes Espinosa, Richard, Rios, R. A., Egoávil, G., Chia Wong, J. A.

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Obtención de suero anti-Rice stripe necrosis virus por expresión heteróloga de la capside proteica viral por Celli, Marcos Giovani, Bangratz, M., Pinel Galzi, A., Brizard, J.P., Hébrard, E., Brugidou, C.

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Variables climáticas que influyen en la ocurrencia del achaparramiento de la alfalfa por Trucco, Veronica Milagros, Piccardi, Mónica Belén, Suarez, Franco, Giolitti, Fabian

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Distribución espacial del carbón del maní en condiciones de baja, media y alta incidencia de la enfermedad por Monguillot, Joaquín Humberto, Paredes, Juan Andrés, Asinari, Florencia, Perez, Ignacio Agustin, Rago, Alejandro Mario

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Evaluación de cultivares comerciales de garbanzo frente a Ascochyta rabiei en Argentina por Pastor, Silvina Estela, Crociara, Clara Sonia, Valetti, Lucio, Pugliese, Bruno Daniel, Fekete, Ana Cecilia

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