Resultados de búsqueda - "Latin"

Commune-level institutional arrangements and monitoring framework for integrated tree-based landscape management por Vu, T.P., Nguyen, V.T., Do, T.H.

“…It is also considered critical to the successful implementation of land-based climate mitigation, such as under Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), because the Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) sector is included in the mitigation contributions of nearly 90 percent of countries in Sub-Saharan and Southern Asia countries and in the Latin American and Caribbean regions (FAO 2016).…”
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Joint adoption of rice technologies among Bolivian farmers por Martínez, Jose, Labarta, Ricardo Antonio, González, Carolina, Lopera, Diana Carolina

“…Bolivia has disseminated several improved technologies in the rice sector, but the average rice productivity in the country is far below the average trend in Latin America in recent years. Although the economic literature has highlighted the role of agricultural technology adoption in increasing agricultural productivity, gaps remain in understanding how rice growers are deciding to adopt and benefit from available improved rice technologies. …”
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Cadmium in cacao: what we know about mitigation practices: Second Clima-LoCa briefing note on cadmium in cacao por Vanderschueren, Ruth, Pulleman, Mirjam Margreet

“…Clima-LoCa is a regional project led by the Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), implemented with research partners from Latin America and Europe and funded by the European Commission. …”
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Nematode problems in tuber crops and their sustainable management por Kolombia, Y.A., Fabiyi, O.A.

“…These crops represent the second-largest global source of carbohydrates, after cereals, in the tropical world, with a projected two billion people in Asia, Africa, and Latin America relying on them for food, feed, and income. …”
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Building Capacity in Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation: Lessons from the Field por Horton, Douglas

“…This paper reports on the author's experiences as manager of a capacity-building project in Latin America. The project aimed to strengthen planning, monitoring and evaluation (PM&E) in agricultural research. …”
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Reimagining agri-value chains as sites of social and societal reproduction por Bindu, Chandana Rajasekharan

“…This presentation highlights a 2023 scoping review of literature of studies conducted in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Middle East and North Africa (MENA) focused on the way women’s labor and productivity is conceptualized in the value-chain approach in agri-food systems. …”
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What do we know about the future of maize value chains in a changing climate and agri-food system? por Tesfaye, Kindie, Sonder, Kai, Pequeno, Diego, Hartley, Faaiqa, Gbegbelegbe, Sika

“…. • The feed demand for maize is expected to grow faster in the coming few decades largely driven by rapid economic growth and diet shifts in highly populated regions in Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. • Meeting the growing demand for maize will require dramatic increases in production, marketing, utilization, and resilience of maize-based farming systems. • While the supply of maize over the coming decades will be constrained by climate change, and limited availability of land and water, technological and policy innovations will bring new opportunities. • The combined challenges of increasing food demand, persisting poverty and malnutrition, natural resource depletion, and climate change will require the world to double the productivity and boost the sustainability and resilience of maize-based farming systems within planetary boundaries.…”
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New disciplines for domestic support por Glauber, Joseph W., Laborde Debucquet, David, Piñeiro, Valeria

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MIRAGRODEP, an analytical model adapted to economic and trade reforms por Bouët, Antoine, Laborde Debucquet, David, Piñeiro, Valeria

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Food products, the WTO dispute settlement system and trade remedies por Bianchi, Eduardo

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“Pivoting” by food industry firms to cope with COVID‐19 in developing regions: E‐commerce and “copivoting” delivery intermediaries por Reardon, Thomas, Heiman, Amir, Lu, Liang, Nuthalapati, Chandra S. R., Vos, Rob, Zilberman, David

“…We focus on cases in Asia and Latin America. Enabling policy and infrastructural conditions allowed firms to pivot and copivot fluidly.…”
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Regional developments [in 2020 Global Food Policy Report] por Badiane, Ousmane, Collins, Julia, Makombe, Tsitsi, Abdelaziz, Fatma, Breisinger, Clemens, Khouri, Nadim, Thurlow, James, Akramov, Kamiljon T., Romashkin, Roman, Park, Allen, Ilyasov, Jarilkasin, Rashid, Shahidur, Ahmed, Akhter, Rana, Abdul Wajid, Chen, Kevin Z., Timmer, Peter, Dawe, David, Li, Mengyao, Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio, Piñeiro, Valeria

“…This section discusses problems, policies, and prospects for regional and national food systems in 2020 and beyond across the major regions: Africa, the Middle East and North Africa, Central Asia, South Asia, East and Southeast Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean. The challenges and potential of inclusion to transform food systems for better well-being and nutrition are examined for each region, along with other current topics…”
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Agro-MAPS (Mapping of Agricultural Production Systems) por International Food Policy Research Institute

“….; The Agro-MAPS database, which would eventually cover all regions of the world, is being prepared separately by FAO (for Africa and the Middle East), IFPRI (Latin America, Asia, Australia and New Zealand) and SAGE (the rest of the world).…”
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Regional developments [In 2018 Global food policy report] por Makombe, Tsitsi, Collins, Julia, Ulimwengu, John M., Badiane, Ousmane, Breisinger, Clemens, Abdelaziz, Fatma, Khouri, Nadim, Akramov, Kamiljon T., Ilyasov, Jarilkasin, Park, Allen, Kumar, Anjani, Ahmed, Akhter, Davies, Stephen, Joshi, Pramod Kumar, Chen, Kevin Z., Timmer, Peter, Dawe, David, Wang, Zimeiyi, Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio, Piñeiro, Valeria

“…This section offers perspectives on food policy developments across the major regions: Africa, the Middle East and North Africa, Central Asia, South Asia, East and Southeast Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean. Globalization and the impact of growing antiglobalization pressures on food security are examined for each region, along with many other current topics.…”
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Boserupian pressure and agricultural mechanization in modern Ghana por Cossar, Frances

“…The adoption of machinery in agricultural production in Africa south of the Sahara has been far behind the level of mechanization found in Asia and Latin America. However, recent survey data have revealed high levels of machinery use in localized areas of cereal production in northern Ghana. …”
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Cash transfers, polygamy, and intimate partner violence: Experimental evidence from Mali por Heath, Rachel, Hidrobo, Melissa, Roy, Shalini

“…Cash transfer programs primarily targeting women in Latin America and East Africa have been shown to reduce intimate partner violence (IPV), but knowledge gaps remain on how impacts differ by program features and context. …”
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Ghana [in Strategies and priorities for African agriculture] por Breisinger, Clemens, Diao, Xinshen, Thurlow, James, Benin, Samuel, Kolavalli, Shashidhara

“…Governance indicators have been steadily improving over the past years, and in 2007 Ghana ranked ahead of regional averages of Asia, Latin America, and Africa in most important governance indicators, including government effectiveness, regulatory quality, and control of corruption (Kaufmann, Kraay, and Mastruzzi 2009). …”
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The impact of oportunidades in Mexico: An integrated CGE-microsimulations modeling approach por Dorosh, Paul A., Debowicz, Dario, Golan, Jennifer

“…CCTs are now present in almost all parts of the developing world, especially in Latin America. As the name indicates, CCT programs transfer money to a targeted group conditional on the recipient's behavior, such as school attendance for children, vaccinations, health checks for infants and pregnant women, and attendance of workshops on hygiene and nutrition.Oportunidades (previously named Progresa) is a CCT program in Mexico that consists of three components: one related to education, one to health, and one to nutrition. …”
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Collective action in ant control por Ravnborg, Helle Munk, de la Cruz, Ana Milena, del Pilar Guerrero, Maria, Westermann, Olaf

“…Leaf-cutting ants (Atta. cephalotes) represents a serious problem to farmers in many parts of Latin America and accounts of ants eating up a whole cassava plot or destroying one or more fruit trees overnight are not uncommon. …”
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Does subsidized childcare help poor working women in urban areas? evaluation of a government-sponsored program in Guatemala City por Ruel, Marie T., de la Briere, Benedicte, Hallman, Kelly, Quisumbing, Agnes R., Coj de Salazar, Nora

“…High urbanization rates in Latin America are accompanied by an increase in women’s participation in the labor force and the number of households headed by single mothers. …”
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