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Agriculture-driven deforestation in the tropics from 1990-2015: emissions, trends and uncertainties by Carter, S., Herold, Martin, Avitabile, Valerio, Bruin, S. de, Sy, Veronique de, Kooistra, L., Rufino, Mariana C.

“…Latin America had the highest emissions from agriculture-driven deforestation, and these peaked at 974 ± 148 Mt CO2 yr−1 in 2000–2005. …”
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Climate security observatory: Guatemala summary for policymakers by CGIAR FOCUS Climate Security

“…Guatemala is considered to be one of the most exposed and vulnerable countries in Latin America to climate variability and extreme weather events, as well as non-climatic natural events. …”
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New Technological Demands: The Methodological Framework for an INIAs/BID/ISNAR Project by International Service for National Agricultural Research

“…The document first analyzes the socioeconomic trends in Latin America and the likely effects of these on the agricultural sector and the technological development of the continent. …”
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Proposed pathways for moving forward by Piñeiro, Martin, Piñeiro, Valeria

“…The selection of these themes and the authors’ proposals to solve these themes are influenced by the needs and perspectives of Latin America, specifically the region’s food-exporting countries.…”
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Brazil: Maintaining the momentum by Beintema, Nienke M., Pardey, Philip G., Avila, Flavio

“…After a period of slow or no growth during the late 1970s and 1980s, public agricultural research investments in Latin America rebounded during the early 1990s.1 These regional trends were heavily influenced by developments in Brazil, which accounted for close to half of the region’s total agricultural research expenditures (Beintema and Pardey 2001). …”
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Pembelajaran sosial dalam pengelolaan hutan komunitas: social learning in community forests by Wollenberg, Eva Karoline, Edmunds, D., Buck, L., Fox, J., Brodt, S.

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Knowledge management strengthens decision making: The case of the "Knowledge Center for Assessing Vulnerability to and Impact of Climate Change on the Andes of Colombia, Ecuador, a... by Cunha, Flavia, Staiger Rivas, Simone, Valencia, B., Pérez Olmedillo, S.

“…Under the REGATTA Initiative (Regional Portal for Technology Transfer and Action against Climate Change in Latin America and Caribbean) this project seeks to develop actions towards vulnerability and adaptation to climate change assessment in agriculture and water resources in the Andes of Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. …”
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Recent advances in cassava pest management by Bellotti, Anthony C., Smith, L., Lapointe, Stephen L.

“…Africa accounts for 51.3% of the production; Asia, 29.4%; and Latin America, 19.3%. The area planted to cassava in Africa, Asia, and Latin America is 10.3, 3.7, and 2.6 million ha, respectively.…”
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Herramientas para la toma de decisiones en América Latina y el Caribe : Indicadores ambientales y sistemas de información geográfica by Winograd, Manuel, Fernández, R.N., Farrow, Andrew

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Perfiles de la pobreza y la desigualdad en América Latina by Rivas Ríos, Libardo

“…Income in Latin America is highly concentrated, more than in any other developing region of the world. …”
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Commentary by Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio

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Tercer Simposio Internacional sobre Investigación en Mejoramiento Genético en Plantas Medicinales y Aromáticas y II Simposio Latinoamericanno en Producción de Plantas Medinales y A...

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South-South Collaboration in CCAFS for developing capacity on weather index insurance by Vyas, Shalika, Shirsath, Paresh Bhaskar, Aggarwal, Pramod K.

“…Global south (including Latin America, Africa, South and South-east Asia) is a major hotspot for climatic risk challenges due to high exposure to climate extremes when compared to temperate regions, high incidences of poverty, poor enabling environments and low regulatory support. …”
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Joint decision-making and women’s agency on small-scale farms in Colombia and Nicaragua by García, Maria Alejandra, Godek, Wendy, Twyman, Jennifer

“…This study focuses on rural communities in two Latin American countries, Nicaragua and Colombia. …”
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CultivateNext: Sowing innovation, harvesting impact by Pasic, Hana, Pallares, Catalina, Gardeazabal Monsalve, Andrea

“…CultivateNext is a Seedstars, TechnoServe and CGIAR-Digital Innovation initiative designed to accelerate agrifoodtech innovations in Latin America, focusing on sustainable practices and technological advancements. …”
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Gender roles among small-scale livestock producers in Costa Rica by Arora, Diksha, Twyman, Jennifer

“…In case of livestock activities, the evidence on the roles and responsibilities of men and women is lim-ited, particularly in Latin America. As more attention is tar-geted to increasing productivity in the livestock sector in Latin America, there is a greater need to increase the evi-dence on gender roles and intra-household decision-making process among livestock producers in this region.…”
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Control integrado de plagas en tomate, pimentón y habichuela by Castaño Parra, Oscar

“…Aquellas personas que no entienden los nombres en latín deberán consultar con un ingeniero Agrónomo.…”
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Carencias minerales en el animal que vive del pastoreo by Alba, Jorge de

“…These deficiencies have already been identified in Latin America and are rather serious in Brazil and Peru respectively. …”
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Second External Program and Management Review of ICRAF, 1998 by CGIAR Technical Advisory Committee, CGIAR Secretariat

“…ICRAF's evolution from a information agency/advocacy council into a full fledged IARC with a field presence in Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia. Organization of ICRAF research into five global programs: Natural Resources Strategy & Policy, Domestication of Agroforestry Trees, Ecosystem Rehabilitation, Systems Evaluation & Dissemination, and Capacity and Institutional Strengthening; and six regional programs in Southern Africa, Eastern & Central Africa, Humid West Africa, the Sahel, Southeast Asia, and Latin America. …”
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The impact of COVID-19 on the sustainable intensification of forage-based beef and dairy value chains in Colombia: A blessing and a curse by Burkart, Stefan, Díaz, Manuel Francisco, Enciso, Karen, Charry, Andrés, Triana Ángel, Natalia, Mena, Martín, Urrea Benítez, José Luis, Gallo Caro, Irieleth, Hoek, Rein van der

“…The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the difficulties associated with the need to transition the cattle sector in Latin America towards achieving sustainability and created a “double crisis” of pandemic and climate change. …”
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