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Are export promotion and trade liberalization good for Latin America's poor? by Morley, Samuel, Vos, Rob, Ganuza, Enrique, Robinson, Sherman

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Poverty and inequality in Latin America: the impact of adjustment and recovery in the 1980s by Morley, Samuel

“…[This book] uses recently available household surveys for the majority of Latin American countries to establish what happened to poverty and inequality over the decade and to isolate the main factors that determined the changes observed…”
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Are export promotion and trade liberalization good for Latin America's poor? by Ganuza, Enrique, Morley, Samuel, Robinson, Sherman, Piñeiro, Valeria, Vos, Rob

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Genomic prediction in upland rice for aluminum tolerance in Latin America by Grenier, Cecile, Bartholomé, Jerome Brice, Frouin, Julien

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Latin America: A Model for the Global Plant Cryopreservation Initiative by Ellis, David, Vollmer, R., Souza, F.V.D., Azevedo, V.C.R.

“…Latin America (Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central and South America) is a megadiverse region. …”
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Latin America: Where urbanization and poverty peak together with biodiversity? by Sanchez-Sarria, Camilo E., Bonilla-Moheno, Martha, Vázquez, Luis-Bernardo, MacGregor-Fors, Ian

“…Latin America is a region that houses many of the global biodiversity hotspots. …”
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The role of informal institutions in the use of forest resources in Latin America by Pacheco, P., Barry, D.M., Cronkleton, P., Larson, A.M.

“…This study adopts an institutional approach to analyze the way in which informal rules, in their interaction with formal rules, shape the use of forest resources by diverse types of smallholders and communities (i.e., indigenous people, agro-extractive and traditional communities) in Latin America. Attention is given to understanding the ‘working rules’, comprising both formal and informal rules, that individuals use in making their decisions for land and forest resources access and use, which in turn affect benefits generation and distribution from such resources use. …”
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Will livestock intensification help save Latin America's tropical forest? by Kaimowitz, D., Angelsen, A.

“…Researchers have long argued that improved livestock technologies and intensification will reduce the pressure on Latin America's forests. This article combines economic theory with insights from seven case studies to examine under what conditions technological change will reduce (or increase) forest clearing. …”
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Rights to forests and carbon under REDD+ initiatives in Latin America by Larson, A.M., Corbera, E., Cronkleton, P., Dam, C. van, Bray, D.B., Estrada, M., May, P., Medina, G., Navarro, G., Pacheco, P.

“…Rights to large areas of forest have been granted to communities and indigenous peoples in Latin America, offering these groups an opportunity to participate in REDD+ initiatives. …”
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Gender and sustainable forest management in East Africa and Latin America by Mwangi, E., Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S., Yan Sun

“…This paper presents a comparative study of forest management across four countries in East Africa and Latin America: Kenya, Uganda, Bolivia, and Mexico. …”
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Forests and climate change in Latin America: linking adaptation and mitigation by Locatelli, Bruno, Evans, V., Wardell, A., Andrade, A., Vignola, Raffaele

“…This paper presents examples of linkages between adaptation and mitigation in Latin American forests. Through case studies, we investigate the approaches and reasons for integrating adaptation into mitigation projects or mitigation into adaptation projects. …”
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Banana in Latin America and the Caribbean: current state, challenges and perspectives by Dita, M.A., Garming, H., Bergh, Inge van den, Staver, Charles, Lescot, T.

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Current development and application of plant cryopreservation in Latin America and the Caribbean by González Arnao, M.T., Engelmann, F.

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Land and forest degradation inside protected areas in Latin America by Leisher, C., Touval, Jerome L., Hess, SM, Boucher, TM, Reymondin, Louis

“…Using six years of remote sensing data, we estimated land and forest degradation inside 1788 protected areas across 19 countries in Latin America. From 2004–2009, the rate of land and forest degradation increased by 250% inside the protected areas, and the land and forest degradation totaled 1,097,618 hectares. …”
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Climate-smart agriculture country profiles: Latin America and the Caribbean by World Bank, Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza, International Center for Tropical Agriculture

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Cassava in Latin America and the Caribbean: resources for global development [on line] by Hershey, Clair H., Henry, Guy, Best, R., Iglesias, C.A.

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A comparison of the soil of tropical Latin America and tropical Australia by Sánchez, P.A., Isbell, R.F.

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Strategies for management of pests and diseases of snap beans in Latin America by Cardona, C., Pastor Corrales, Marcial A.

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Incorporating the gender dimension on the use of rice technologies in Latin America by González, C., Twyman, Jennifer, Labarta, Ricardo Antonio, Muriel, J, García, M.

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Gender and forest, trees and agroforestry value chains in Latin America by Gumucio, Tatiana, Hernández, María Camila

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