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Blue flags fly in the Caribbean by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…The Blue Flag International Jury has given 12 coastal sites in the Bahamas, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica and Puerto Rico th…”
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Workshop on climate change and future scenarios to guide local adaptation plans by CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

“…Farmers from different regions of Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama and Dominican Republic were trained on climate change and thinking in the future of their communities. …”
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Desarrollando un sistema de predicción de distribuciones diamétricas para Pinus occidentalis, Sw. en La Sierra, República Dominicana by Bueno López, Santiago W.

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Training of Central and South American ministries of Agriculture by CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

“…This event was organized by Bioversity International on behalf of CCAFS, the Economic Commission for Latin America (CEPAL), and the Central American Agricultural Council (CAC), Policy makers from eight Latin American countries were present: Panama, El Salvador, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Dominican Republic, Peru, and Colombia.…”
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Qualitative Impact Assessment of CSA regional policy in Central America on agricultural sector institutions, investments and farmers (with P771) by CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

“…This study focused on the Central American Integration System which is a region integrated by eight countries: Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Belize, Panama and Dominican Republic.…”
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Vivero Internacional de Mustia Hilachosa del Frijol (VIM): Resultados 1973-1985 by International Center for Tropical Agriculture

“…Results are summarized of the research on bean web blight conducted in Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Panama, Belize, Colombia, Mexico, Dominican Republic, and Peru, during 1973-85. A list of the bean lines resistant to T. …”
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La yuca en la economia de America Latina by Cock, James H., Lynam, John K.

“…In the Caribbean, with the exception of Cuba, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic, cassava is unlikely to have a significant role in the agricultural economy. …”
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Achieving climate smart cocoa at scale in Central America and the Caribbean by Bunn, Christian

“…The set of practices was developed through a series of participatory workshops in Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Dominican Republic, and El Salvador and validated through a review of scientific literature.…”
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Banana sector: Agritrade Executive Brief Update 2013 by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation, Eastern Africa Grain Council

“…Despite high production levels in Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi (mainly for local consumption) and a well established export market in Dominican Republic, Côte d’Ivoire and Cameroon (mainly to the EU market), the trade in dessert bananas is still dominated by Latin America. …”
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Relationships among bean-infecting geminiviruses by Gilbertson, R.L., Faria, J.C. de, Hanson, S.F., Hendrastuti, E., Ahlquist, P.G., Morales, Francisco José, Maxwell, D.P.

“…A report is presented on the cloning of the entire tripartite genomes of bean-infecting geminivirus: mechanically transmissible BGMV isolates from Guatemala (BGMV-GA) and the Dominican Republic (BGMV-DR) and an isolate of bean dwarf mosaic virus (BDMV) from Colombia. …”
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Needs and opportunities for measuring rural women’s empowerment in Guatemala: Possible applications of a Women’s Empowerment Metric for National Statistical Systems (WEMNS) by Valiente, Regina, Heckert, Jessica, Paz, Florencia, Cabnal, Edwin

“…As such, women’s economic empowerment is being prioritized at the national level in Guatemala, and also at the regional level across Central America and the Dominican Republic. La igualdad de género y el empoderamiento de las mujeres y niñas se ve reflejado en distintas prioridades de políticas a nivel global y local. …”
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Red rust thrips in smallholder organic export banana in Latin America and the Caribbean: pathways for control, compatible with organic certification by Arias de López, M., Corozo Ayovi, R.E., Delgado, R., Osorio, B., Moyón, D., Rengifo, D., Suárez, P., Paulino, A., Medrano, S., Sanchez, L., Rojas Llanque, Juan Carlos, Vegas, U., Alburqueque, D., Staver, C., van Tol, R., Clercx, L.

“…This approach minimizes losses due to both Chaetanaphothrips signipennis found in Peru and Ecuador and Chaetanaphothrips orchidii common in the Dominican Republic. Experiments to develop scouting methods and establish thresholds suggested three conclusions: C. signipennnis flies very little, complicating trapping even with pheromones; thresholds for economic damage are very low; and scouting is difficult, costly and not practical for decision making. …”
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All invited by Lindvall, Sari

“…Hidden away in the pristine landscape on the northeast shore of the Dominican Republic, the remote village of Miches is on the verge of shifting its economic resource base from traditional fishing into what could become an international model for sustainable tourism. …”
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Home-grown school feeding in Latin America and the Caribbean: a review of 12 countries by Food Environment and Consumer Behavior Team, Alliance Bioversity International & CIAT

“…The countries covered by this review include Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Peru.…”
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Distribution of fluorescent Pseudomonas spp. causing grain and sheath discoloration of rice in Latin America by Zeigler, Robert S., Aricapa, María Girlena, Hoyos, E.

“…Pathogenic fluorescent Pseudomonas spp. were isolated from discolored rice seed and flag-leaf sheath samples received from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Burundi, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Surinam, and Uruguay. …”
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Generation and characterization of three monoclonal antibodies useful in detecting and distinguishing bean golden mosaic virus isolates by Cancino, M, Abouzid, AM, Morales, Francisco José, Purcifull, DE, Polston, JE, Hiebert, E

“…Two monoclonal antibodies prepared to purified virions of bean golden mosaic virus (BGMV) isolates from Guatemala (GA) and the Dominican Republic (DR) and one monoclonal antibody prepared to the coat protein of a BGMV isolate from Brazil (BZ) expressed in Escherichia coli were useful serological probes for detection of whitefly-transmitted geminiviruses. …”
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International cooperation by International Center for Tropical Agriculture

“…In collaboration with the training office at the Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical, the cassava program in 1980 trained 38 professionals from 15 countries (Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Bolivia, USA, Thailand, Dominican Republic, S. Africa, Ecuador, Haiti, Honduras, W. …”
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Cooperación internacional by International Center for Tropical Agriculture

“…In collaboration with the training office at the Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical, the cassava program in 1980 trained 38 professionals from 15 countries (Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Bolivia, USA, Thailand, Dominican Republic, S. Africa, Ecuador, Haiti, Honduras, W. …”
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Aspectos financieros de las acciones nacionales de mitigación apropiada (NAMA) para los sistemas ganaderos en la región de América Latina y El Caribe by Otárola, M., Sepúlveda, Claudia J., Villanueva, C., Solano, C., Martínez Barón, Deissy, Arango, Jacobo, Román Cuesta, Rosa María

“…This document summarizes the results of the analysis on the financing issues related to business models proposed by existing NAMAs or emission reduction initiatives in nine LAC countries (Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, Colombia, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay), developed between November 2018 and February 2019 by reviewing and analyzing secondary information and consulting (remotely) with key informants from each country evaluated. …”
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Desempeño financiero y económico de alternativas de rehabilitación y renovación (R&R) de los cafetales agroforestales de la República Dominicana by Peguero, F., Sánchez, R.O., Peñaló, J.P., Mejía, E., Álvarez Varela, D., Somarriba, E.

“…The rehabilitation schemes include seven different scenarios, including: coffee plantations without pruning; pruning of recepa according to the traditional pruning from the Dominican Republic distributed in one year (here called complete recepa in which the entire plantation is pruned in one year); two, three, four and five years; and a new system pruning that emulates the one used in Honduras. …”
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