Resultados de búsqueda - "Latin"

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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Importancia de la situación de la mujer para la nutrición infantil en los países en desarrollo por Smith, Lisa C., Ramakrishnan, Usha, Ndiaye, Aida, Haddad, Lawrence J., Martorell, Reynaldo

“…This study explores the relationship between women’s status and children’s nutrition in three developing regions: South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).... This research shows unequivocally that making a decision at the policy level to improve women’s status produces significant benefits. …”
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Effects of covering structures and gibberellic acid in promoting seed germination of Urochloa por Salazar, Daniel E., Santos-M, Luis Guillermo, Guzzon, Filippo, Wenzl, Peter

“…Forage grass species of the genus Urochloa play a crucial role in tropical and subtropical ecosystems, particularly in Latin America, where they are important for livestock production due to their adaptability and productivity. …”
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The Rural Household Multiple Indicator Survey (RHoMIS) data of 54,873 farm households in 35 countries por Gorman, Léo, Hammond, James, Frelat, Romain, Caulfield, Mark, Wijk, Mark T. van

“…This release harmonizes 54,873 household observations spanning 35 countries in Latin America, Africa, and Asia into a single dataset, collected between 2015 and 2023. …”
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Food, gender, and diet quality: Regional experiences, evidence, and reflections por Lizarazo, Miguel, Ramos, Gresia, Jimenez, Daniel, Arce, Daniela

“…Overall, the webinar series provided a platform for knowledge exchange among regional partners, highlighting the importance of integrating gender perspectives, context-specific data, and innovative monitoring tools to inform policies and interventions aimed at improving diet quality and food systems resilience in Latin America.…”
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Secondary forest dynamics in the Amazon floodplain in Peru por Jong, W. de

“…Studies in secondary forest in Latin America have largely been confined to terra firme lands. …”
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Riquezas da floresta: frutas, plantas medicinais e artesanato na América Latina por López, C., Shanley, P., Fantini, A.C.

“…This book compiles traditional and specialized knowledge about 26 plants used by rural and urban people in Latin America. The pages tell real-life stories about a wide range of forest products and the people who use and manage them. …”
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Beyond the biophysical: knowledge, culture, and power in agriculture and natural resource management por German, L., Ramisch, Joshua J., Verma, R.

“…The original case studies and conceptual syntheses (from Africa, Asia, and Latin America) analyze some of the challenges and “misadventures” associated with past and current development approaches and practice. …”
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Enhancing financiers’ accountability for the social and environmental impacts of biofuels por Gelder, J.W. van, Kouwenhoven, D.

“…This report summarises 20 case studies on investments in the production of biofuel and the feedstocks used for biofuel (palm oil, soybeans, sugarcane and jatropha) in forest-rich countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. The investments were financed by private entrepreneurs, public financing and private financial institutions. …”
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Local social and environmental impacts of biofuels: Global comparative assessment and implications for governance por German, L., Schoneveld, George C., Pacheco, P.

“…We shed light on this debate through a synthesis of findings from case studies in six biofuel producer countries of Asia, Africa, and Latin America, and a seventh paper exploring the implications of the land-use changes observed in these case studies for the climate mitigation potential of biofuels. …”
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The substitution of barley by other carbohydrates in grass silage based diets to dairy cows por Murphy, M., Khalili, H., Huhtanen, P.

“…Four rumen and duodenal cannulated lactating cows were fed grass silage based diets supplemented with either barley (B), or barley and beet molasses (M), or barley and wood molasses (W) or barley and beet pulp (BP) in a 4x4 latin square design. Dry matter consumption was 15 kg day and roughages comprised 57 percent of the diet. …”
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Phenotyping cassava for adaptation to drought por Okogbenin, Emmanuel, Setter, Tim L., Ferguson M, Mutegi R, Alves, A.C., Ceballos, H., Fregene, Martin A.

“…Cassava (manioc, yuca, or mandioca; Manihot esculenta Crantz, Euphorbiaceae) is an important cash crop and food crop of resource-limited farmers in Africa, Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean. The storage roots are utilised either fresh, as in the case of sweet cultivars low in cyanogenic glycosides, or after processing into dry products such as fl our, starch and animal feed in the case of bitter cultivars high in cyanogenic glycosides (Balagopalan, 2002; Dufour,1988; Essers, 1995; Westby, 2002). …”
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Terra-i: an eye on habitat change por International Center for Tropical Agriculture, Nature Conservancy, Haute Ecole d'Ingénierie et de Gestion du Canton de Vaud, University of London, CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry

“…It currently runs for the whole of Latin America and is being expanded over the next year to cover the entire tropics. …”
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Base genética de los cultivares de arroz de riego liberados en Venezuela por Acevedo, M.A., Torres Castro, Edgar Alonso, Moreno, O, Álvarez, R., Torres, O., Castrillo, W., Torrealba N., G.T., Reyes, E, Salazar, M., Navas, M

“…The results allow to infer that the genetic base of rice in Venezuela is more stretch than that of Latin America and similar to that of irrigate rice in Brazil. …”
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Climate-Smart Agriculture in El Salvador por Halliday, Andrew, Nowak, Andreea C., Lizarazo, Miguel, Imbach, Pablo, Zavariz-Romero, Beatriz, Prasodjo, Rauf, Baca, María, Medellín, Claudia, Argote, Karolina, Cervantes, C, Zamora, Juan Carlos, Louman, Bastian, Jarvis, Andy, Corner-Dolloff, Caitlin

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Climate-Smart Agriculture in Sinaloa, Mexico por Zavariz-Romero, Beatriz, Cervantes, C, Nowak, Andreea C., Lizarazo, Miguel, Imbach, Pablo, Halliday, Andrew, Prasodjo, Rauf, Baca, María, Medellín, Claudia, Argote, Karolina, Zamora, Juan Carlos, Louman, Bastian, Jarvis, Andy, Corner-Dolloff, Caitlin, Bouroncle, Claudia, Edmeades, Svetlana

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Climate-Smart Agriculture in Mexico por Zavariz-Romero, Beatriz, Cervantes De Blois, Chelsea, Nowak, Andreea C., Lizarazo, Miguel, Imbach, Pablo, Halliday, Andrew, Prasodjo, Rauf, Baca, María, Medellín, Claudia, Argote, Karolina, Zamora, Juan Carlos, Louman, Bastian, Jarvis, Andy, Corner-Dolloff, Caitlin, Bouroncle, Claudia

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Climate-Smart Agriculture in Chiapas, Mexico por Zavariz-Romero, Beatriz, Cervantes De Blois, Chelsea, Nowak, Andreea C., Lizarazo, Miguel, Imbach, Pablo, Halliday, Andrew, Prasodjo, Rauf, Baca, María, Medellín, Claudia, Argote, Karolina, Zamora, Juan Carlos, Louman, Bastian, Jarvis, Andy, Corner-Dolloff, Caitlin, Bouroncle, Claudia, Edmeades, Svetlana, Bucher, Ana

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Climate-Smart Agriculture in Argentina por Nowak, Andreea C., Lizarazo, Miguel, Imbach, Pablo, Halliday, Andrew, Zavariz-Romero, Beatriz, Prasodjo, Rauf, Baca, María, Medellín, Claudia, Argote, Karolina, Cervantes De Blois, Chelsea, Zamora, Juan Carlos, Louman, Bastian, Jarvis, Andy, Corner-Dolloff, Caitlin, Bouroncle, Claudia, Edmeades, Svetlana, Bucher, Ana

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Climate-Smart Agriculture in Colombia por Argote, Karolina, Jarvis, Andy, Nowak, Andreea C., Lizarazo, Miguel, Imbach, Pablo, Halliday, Andrew, Zavariz-Romero, Beatriz, Prasodjo, Rauf, Baca, María, Cervantes De Blois, Chelsea, Zamora, Juan Carlos, Louman, Bastian, Corner-Dolloff, Caitlin, Edmeades, Svetlana, Bucher, Ana

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