Search Results - "Latin"

Strategic planning of national or regional systems of biosphere reserves: a methodology and case study from Costa Rica by Cifuentes, M., MacFarland, C., Morales, R.

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Inducing resistance of spanish cedar Cedrela odorata L. and mahogany swietenia macrophylla King against y Hypsipyla grandella (Zeller) by grafting by Pérez Flores, Julián

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An Indicative Medium Term Plan for ILRI by International Livestock Research Institute, Rockefeller Foundation

“…The plan was considered "indicative" pending more interaction with other centers and national systems and consideration by the Director General and Board of ILRI following the formal opening of the new center in January 1995.The main headings were: animal health, animal genetics, integrated production systems, ecoregional research in mixed livestock production systems (in Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and West Asia and North Africa), socioeconomics and livestock policy, institution building and technology transfer, management, administration and operations.Agenda document at TAC 64 and CGIAR International Centers Week, October 1994.…”
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Pantropical CO2 emissions and removals for the AFOLU sector in the period 1990–2018 by Nyawira, Sylvia S, Herold, Martin, Mulatu, Kalkidan Ayele, Roman-Cuesta, Rosa Maria, Houghton, Richard A., Grassi, Giacomo, Pongratz, Julia, Gasser, Thomas, Verchot, Louis

“…Considering different time periods (1990–1999, 2000–2010, and 2011–2018), we analyse the trend of the fluxes with a key focus on the tropical regions (i.e., Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa, and South and Southeast Asia). …”
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Tropical forest tree mortality, recruitment and turnover rates: calculation, interpretation and comparison when census intervals vary by Lewis, S.L., Phillips, Oliver L., Sheil, Douglas, Vinceti, B., Baker, T.R., Brown, S., Graham, A.W., Higuchi, N., Hilbert, D.W., Laurance, W.F., Lejoly, J., Malhi, Y., Monteagudo, A., Núñez Vargas, P., Sonke, B., Terborgh, J.W., Martínez, R.V.

“…Stand-level mortality rates from 14 multicensus long-term forest plots from Africa, Latin America, Asia and Australia also showed that, on average, mortality rates decreased with increasing census interval length. …”
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Safe wastewater reuse: a call for sanitation safety plans. by Cissé, G., Drechsel, Pay

“…The implementation in the field will involve partner institutions from research to policy and concerned communities in Africa, Asia and Latin America.…”
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Cassava germplasm resource development by International Center for Tropical Agriculture

“…Main activities carried out regarding plant breeding in Latin America, Africa, and Asia are summarized. In the case of Latin America, activities involved germplasm management, gene pool development, a project for developing semiarid and subtropical germplasm, participatory research for var. selection, and true cassava seed. …”
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Mejoramiento del arroz de secano para América Latina by Chatel, Marc, Guimarães, Elcio Perpétuo, Ospina, Yolima, Martínez Racines, César Pompilio, Borrero Correa, Jaime C.

“…Improving upland rice for Latin America The ecosystems for upland rice in Latin America and the Caribbean and their limitations for rice cultivation are analyzed. …”
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Detection of mislabeled germplasm in cocoa collections using DNA fingerprinting with SSR markers by Zhang, D., Boccara, Michel, Mischke, S., Motilal, L., Kolesnikova-Allen, M., Cryer, N., Turnbull, C., Lanaud, C., Philips-Mora, W., Butler, D.

“…To date, a total of 4027 coca accessions maintained in the two international genebanks (ICG, T and CATIE), and in several other national collections in latin America, have been genotyped with a set of 15 standard microsatalite (SSR) loci.…”
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Inheritance of dwarfism in AAB plantains by Ortíz, R., Vuylsteke, D.R.

“…Plantain (Musa spp., AAB group) is a major food crop in the humid lowland tropics of Africa, the Caribbean and Latin America. Lodging, caused by strong winds occurs periodically in these areas. …”
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Annual report 2019: CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets by CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets

“…In 2019, research conducted under the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) informed policies and investments of governments, development agencies, non-governmental organizations and private companies in Africa, Asia and Latin America. PIM contributed to investment plans and policies in Afghanistan, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines and Rwanda; scaling up of digital advisory services in Ethiopia and of payments for agrobiodiversity conservation in Peru; biotechnology advances in Nigeria; renewal of community forest concessions in Guatemala; and improved rangeland governance in Ethiopia and Tanzania. …”
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Indicators for gender equality and the empowerment of women: from concept to practice by Chavarro, Mónica Juliana, Moreno, Manuel, Muriel, Juliana, Twyman, Jennifer

“…As part of the project “Developing Gender Indicators in Agriculture,” we conducted a literature review in order to understand how research and agricultural development projects in Latin America measure women’s empowerment and gender inequalities. …”
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Lessons learnt in CCAFS Flagship 4 Phase II by Born, Lorna

“…Flagship 4 focuses on Climate Services and Safety Nets in Latin America, Asia and Africa, encompassing climate services design and implementation, insurance and early warning systems. …”
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Frameworks Regulating Hunting for Meat in Tropical Countries Leave the Sector in the Limbo by Vliet, N. van, Antunes, A.P., Constantino, P.A.L., Gómez, J., Santos Fita, D., Sartoretto, E.

“…We use contemporary examples from Latin America and Africa described in detail in publications ranging from 2015 to 2018, to illustrate the need for legal reforms that clarify the rights to sell surplus of meat and align land tenure rights with wildlife use rights to suggest a new definition of subsistence hunting which accounts for the realities of communities from different cultural backgrounds.…”
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Community land formalization and company land acquisition procedures: A review of 33 procedures in 15 countries by Notess, L., Veit, P., Monterroso, I., Andiko, Sulle, E., Larson, A.M., Gindroz, A-S., Quaedvlieg, J., Williams, A.

“…This article reviews and maps 19 community land formalization and 14 company land acquisition procedures is 15 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Comparing community and company procedures identifies multiple sources of inequity.…”
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CCAFS science backs up a USD 45 million IADB loan for El Salvador for climate resilience through agriculture policy by CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

“…CCAFS research across Latin America has informed the CSA Strategy for the SICA region, which has served as a framework to formulate the National Policy of Agriculture of El Salvador and the National CSA policy. …”
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Implementing research-based climate action for better adaptation by Kinyua, Ivy Wambui

“…The Alliance works with local, national, and multinational partners across Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean, and with public and private sector players, to generate evidence and mainstream innovations in largescale programs to create food systems and landscapes that sustain the planet, drive prosperity, and nourish people. …”
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Global Launch Event For the CGIAR Initiative on National Policies And Strategies For Food, Land And Water Systems Transformation (NPS) by Kassim, Yumna

“…NPS is a new One CGIAR initiative that has been co-created with national and international partners with the main objectives of building policy coherence, responding to crises, and integrating policy tools at national and subnational levels in six countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. The initiative is expected to make substantial, research-based contributions to improve food and water security, nutrition and livelihoods; reduce poverty and support job creation, gender equality and social inclusion; and find solutions for climate change adaptation.…”
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EiA’s long-term experiments (LTEs) for assessing long-term sustainability and climate change adaptation by Saito, Kazuki, Casimero, Madonna, Rosenstock, Todd S., Six, J., Snapp, S., Chikowo, Regis, Vanlauwe, Bernard

“…These experiments that are on maize, rice, and wheat based cropping systems, are located in East and Southern Africa (15), Latin America (6) South Asia (4), and few in Central and West Asia and North Africa, Southeast Asia, and West and Central Africa. …”
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Operationalizing the soil health metaphor to create sustainable food systems, with a focus on smallholder farming in the Global South by Pulleman, Mirjam Margreet

“… - A flexible framework is proposed that can be used to target, monitor and adapt soil health interventions with relevant stakeholders - Development of biological soil health indicators and assessment methods require more research – given the key role of soil biology for soil health/functions - High fertilizer costs, attention for soil health have led to the promotion of “smallholder-friendly” “biofertilizers” especially in Latin America, but scientific evidence and mechanistic understanding is lacking…”
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