Resultados de búsqueda - "Latin"

Manejo sostenible y recuperación de bosques degradados: resultadas preliminares de experiencias de una red Internacional por Montagini, F., Eibl, B., McDonagh, P., Kobayashi, S.

“…These experiences are part of a CIFOR research network including Latin America and SE Asia…”
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Towards sustainable management and development of tropical secondary forests in Asia: the Samarinda proposal for action por Chokkalingam, U.

“…Interest in secondary forests, however, is emerging both at the national and the international levels starting with a 1997 workshop in Latin America and the subsequent formation of a regional coalition to coordinate research and other initiatives related to secondary forests. …”
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Metodologias para evaluar la aplicacion de criterios e indicadores en el manejo forestal de bosques tropicales en America Latina por Pokorny, B., Sabogal, C., Camino, Ronnie de

“…Based on a revision of C&I initiatives in Latin America, experiences made by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and consultations with experts, the paper identifies and discusses the demands and requirements related to the application of C&I and its practical implications.…”
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Pobreza y bosques en America Latina: una agenda de accion por Kaimowitz, D.

“…Approximately 25 millon people live in the main forested regions of Latin America. The forestry sector there directly provides two or three million jobs and perhaps another three or four million people work in related activities. …”
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Participatory action research on adaptive collaborative management of community forests: a multi-country model por McDougall, C., Prabhu, Ravi, Kusumanto, Y.

“…The project, which included activities in Asia, Africa and Latin America, explored the potential contribution of collaboration and social learning based forest management to enhancing human and forest ecosystem well-being. …”
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Municipalities and local participation in forest management in Bolivia por Pacheco, P.

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Making the ‘rules of the game’: constituting territory and authority in Nicaragua's indigenous communities por Larson, A.M.

“…Indigenous communities, particularly in Latin America, are increasingly winning recognition of rights to lands and forests that they have managed or used historically under customary institutions. …”
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Forest tenure reform in the age of climate change: lessons for REDD+ por Larson, A.M.

“…It draws on the findings of a study conducted by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) on forest tenure reforms in selected countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America from 2006 to 2008. The study underlines the numerous obstacles faced by communities after rights are won, in moving from statutory rights to their implementation and to access to benefits on the ground. …”
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Stylosanthes as a forage and fallow crop. Proceedings of a regional workshop on the use of Stylosanthes in West Africa por Leeuw, P.N. de, Mohamed-Saleem, M.A., Nyamu, A.M.

“…The first section deals with biology of Stylosanthes and its importance in West Africa and Latin America. The second section presents papers on the screening and evaluation of Stylosanthes germplasm. …”
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How cost-effective is biofortification in combating micronutrient malnutrition? an Ex ante assessment por Meenakshi, J.V., Johnson, Nancy L., Manyong, Victor M., DeGroote, H., Javelosa, J., Yanggen, D.R., Naher, F., González, C., García, J., Meng, E.

“…This paper estimates the costs and potential benefits of biofortification of globally important staple food crops with provitamin A, iron, and zinc for twelve countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Using a modification of the Disability-Adjusted Life Years framework we conclude that overall, the intervention can make a significant impact on the burden of micronutrient deficiencies in the developing world in a highly cost-effective manner. …”
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2013 Annual Report to CGIAR Consortium: CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) por CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

“…Most progress has been made in East Africa (EA), West Africa (WA) and South Asia (SA) – the regions established at the start of CCAFS; but there have been significant outcomes in the recently established region of Latin America (LAM), with less progress in South East Asia (SEA).…”
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Multiple-use water services: climbing the water ladder por van Koppen, Barbara, Smits, S.

“…This article presents findings of the action-research project on the what, why and how of 'multiple-use water services' or MUS, supported by the Challenge Program on Water and Food (active in 30 sites in 8 countries in Latin America, Africa and Asia). The consortium of partners from the domestic and productive water sectors pioneered the implementation of two models of MUS on the ground: homestead-scale MUS and community-scale MUS. …”
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Partial diallel analysis of agronomic characters in rice (Oryza sativa L.) por Torres Toro, E.A., Geraldi, IO

“…Rice (Oryza sativa L.) breeding seeking to combine high productivity and cold tolerance for the temperate Latin America region is an important challenge. We estimated some useful parameters which can be used to investigate the genetic control of agronomic characters in crosses combining cold tolerance and productivity. …”
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Colombia’s ‘Misión Rural’ and CIAT: allies to transform Colombian agriculture por International Center for Tropical Agriculture

“…As the third largest and one of the fastest growing economies in Latin America, Colombia has the capacity to influence the socioeconomic well-being of the entire region. …”
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Cassava por International Center for Tropical Agriculture

“…Personnel from national institutions in Latin America and Asia was also trained, in collaboration with scientists from CIAT`s Cassava Program and from research institutions in developed and developing countries. …”
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Linea de base para la toma de desiciones en bioseguridad: desarrollo de un modelo para la evaluación de flujo de genes en yuca III. Persistencia de plantas voluntarias en campos de... por Fory Sánchez, L.F., Velásquez, A.M., Nagles, C., Jarvis, Andy, Calle, F., Lenis Calderon, Jorge Iván, Pérez Velásquez, Juan Carlos, Ceballos, H.

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Socio-Economic Impact of the Mobile Phone based Agricultural Extension por Mittal, Surabhi, Mehar, Mamta

“…The content of the book comprises of country chapters on mobile phone applications for agricultural extension from Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe along with chapters on global review on m-agriculture initiatives, content generation process and socio-economic impact of mobile phone based agro-advisory services. …”
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Climate-Smart Agriculture in Sri Lanka por World Bank, International Center for Tropical Agriculture

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Methodology development for the planning and evaluation of integrated cassava development projects por Lynam, John K., Janssen, W.

“…An in-depth analysis is made of objectives and constraints in cassava development in Latin America. Integrated cassava development projects aim at promoting the organizational intervention by which small-scale cassava farmers are linked to high growth markets. …”
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Standard system for the evaluation of bean germplasm por Schoonhoven, Aart van, Pastor Corrales, Marcial A.

“…This system has been tested in Colombia and many countries in Latin America, Africa, and other regions. Such evaluation system considers the following measurements: general agronomic characteristics (seed color, size, and brilliance; growth habit; days to flowering and maturity; vegetative and reproductive adaptation; nodulation), damage caused by diseases (viral, fungal, and bacterial), nematodes, and arthropods (bean flies, aphids, red and white spider mites, leafhoppers and leaf feeders, bean pod weevils, and bruchids), and tolerance to soil and climatic factors (drought and acid soils). …”
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