Resultados de búsqueda - "Latin"

Colombia: A public-private partnership por Beintema, Nienke M., Romano, Luis, Pardey, Philip G.

“…Despite efforts in many Latin American countries to diminish the government role in the funding and performing of agricultural research and development (R&D), general government revenues are still the predominant source of support for agricultural research, as in many less-developed countries (Pardey and Beintema 2001). …”
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Coping with the “coffee crisis” in Central America: the role of the Nicaraguan Red de Protección Social por Maluccio, John

“…The international and local Nicaraguan media have widely reported on the “coffee crisis” in Latin America and there is substantial evidence that there has been a downturn and that this has been more severe in the coffee-growing regions. …”
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Coping with the “coffee crisis” in Central America: the role of the Nicaraguan Red de Protección Social por Maluccio, John

“…The international and local Nicaraguan media have widely reported on the “coffee crisis” in Latin America and there is substantial evidence that there has been a downturn and that this has been more severe in the coffee-growing regions. …”
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The challenge of hunger: The 2008 Global Hunger Index [issue brief] por von Grebmer, Klaus, Fritschel, Heidi, Nestorova, Bella, Olofinbiyi, Tolulope, Pandya-Lorch, Rajul, Yohannes, Yisehac

“…Some regions—in particular South and Southeast Asia, the Near East and North Africa, and Latin America and the Caribbean—have made significant headway in combating hunger and malnutrition since 1990, but in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, the GHI remains high. …”
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South American wheat markets and MERCOSUR por Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio

“…It argues that wheat markets in South America have undergone significant changes over the last decade, driven by the world macroeconomic and agricultural cycle of the last quarter of the century, as well as specific economic and sectoral policies in the region. Latin America's economic environment is now characterized by fiscal constraints and greater price stability, market liberalization and trade openness. …”
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More food, but less land and water for nature: why agricultural productivity gains did not materialize por Seijger, C., Urfels, A., Christoforidou, M., Hellegers, P., Borghuis, G., Langan, Simon, van Halsema, G.

“…Instead of consolidating cereal production and trade in favourable regions like North America, Europe and Russia, their arable land declined by 35 million hectares, while arable land expanded by 74 million hectares in Africa, Latin America and Eastern Asia. Likewise, water productivity gains did not materialize, as photosynthesis breakthroughs did not occur. …”
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A typology analysis of agricultural empowerment profiles in rural Egypt with a particular focus on women por Najjar, Dina, Frija, Aymen, El Garhi, Aman

“…Research conducted in the past three decades in Latin America, India, and sub-Saharan Africa shows that land access empowers women in their ability to produce food, to participate in public life, as well as in household decision-making. …”
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Identifying governance challenges in ecosystem services management–Conceptual considerations and comparison of global forest cases por Falk, Thomas, Spangenberg, J.H., Siegmund-Schultze, M., Kobbe, S., Feike, T., Kuebler, D., Settele, J., Vorlaufer, T

“…The classification is applied to six forest cases in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Our results confirm that ecosystem management, which more strongly supports the provision of public goods and common pool resources, is often under strong pressure to be transformed into systems that mainly provide private goods. …”
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Improving nutrition through biofortification: Preharvest and postharvest technologies por Listman, G. Michael, Guzmán, Carlos, Palacios-Rojas, Natalia, Pfeiffer, Wolfgang H., San Vicente, Felix, Velu, Govindan

“…In work begun in the late 1990s, the CGIAR institutions HarvestPlus, the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), and the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), together with numerous national research organizations and scaling partners, have in recent years developed and released in 19 countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America more than 60 improved varieties of maize and wheat whose grains feature enhanced levels of the essential micronutrients zinc or provitamin A. …”
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Impacts of the joint adoption of improved varieties and chemical fertilizers on rice productivity in Bolivia: implications for Global Food Systems por Martinez, Jose Maria, Labarta, Ricardo A., González, Carolina

“…Rice research and technology development in Latin America has increased yields and offered the opportunity for several countries to contribute to global food security by becoming net exporters of this cereal. …”
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Agriculture, food security, nutrition and the Millenium Development Goals por von Braun, Joachim, Swaminathan Monkombu Sambasivan, Rosegrant, Mark W.

“…...Today, 1.1 billion people live on less than one US dollar per day (the internationally recognized poverty threshold)—430 million in South Asia, 325 million in Sub-Saharan Africa, 260 million in East Asia and the Pacific, and 55 million in Latin America. Too many children live lives characterized by hunger and illness, and all too often succumb to early death. …”
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Global Handbook of Rice Policies por Antonio, Ronald Jeremy, Valera, Harold Glenn, Durand-Morat, Alvaro, Hoang, Hoa, Diagne, Mandiaye, Malakhail, Fazal, Pede, Valerien

“…Similar to the United States and exporting countries in Asia, Latin America is also highly relevant for the world rice market since it houses some key rice exporters (i.e., Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay). …”
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Increasing farmer´s digital agency and cocreation: the Solis experience in Brazil por Laurens, Violaine

“…Presented by Violaine Laurens, Solidaridad Latin America, at the “Increasing farmer’s digital agency for agroecology” webinar on 8 May 2025, an event of the Transformative Partnership Platform (TPP) for Agroecology and Agroecological TRANSITIONS Project (ATDT). …”
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What do we know about the future of food demand, production, and food security based on IMPACT model projections? por Cenacchi, Nicola, Sulser, Timothy B., Mishra, Abhijeet

“…As a result, most of these regions, with the exception of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), are expected to increase their reliance on imports. …”
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Saint Vincent & Grenadines Agriculture and LULUCF Inventory needs assessment country profile por Vásquez, Daniela, Barrios, Julián, Haynes, Connor

“…The agriculture and land use, land-use change, and forestry (LULUCF) sectors are key determinants of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), both because of their importance in national economies and because of their weight in the climate commitments made under the Paris Agreement. …”
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The Bahamas Agriculture and LULUCF Inventory needs assessment country profile por Barrios, Julián, Vasquez, Daniela, Haynes, Connor

“…The agriculture and land use, land-use change, and forestry (LULUCF) sectors are key determinants of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), both because of their importance in national economies and because of their weight in the climate commitments made under the Paris Agreement. …”
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Realized genetic gain in spittlebugs (Hemiptera: Cercopidae) resistance and tolerance at CIAT's interspecific Urochloa breeding programme por Hernandez, Luis, Aparicio, Johan, Espitia Buitrago, Paula, Castiblanco, Valheria, Jauregui, Rosa

“…The Interspecific Urochloa recurrent selection breeding programme at CIAT aims to integrate desirable traits such as resistance and tolerance to spittlebugs (Hemiptera: Cercopidae), the main insect pest affecting these pastures in Latin America. Eleven successive cycles of selection were screened for antibiosis and tolerance to Aeneolamia varia nymphs, measured as insect survivorship and plant damage, respectively. …”
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The future of ABPU agriculture: The 2nd MERCUSUR outlook por Jorge, Nicolás, Kanadani Campos, Silvia, Fonseca da Pereira, Vanessa, Vicentin Masaro, Jimena, Gianatiempo, Juan Pablo, Piñeiro, Valeria, Rava, Catalina, Costa, Ramiro

“…While global projections from institutions such as the OECD-FAO and USDA provide valuable baselines, incorporating local perspectives is essential to capture the specific dynamics of emerging economies that are deeply integrated into international agrifood markets. Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is the world’s largest net food-exporting region, playing a central role in stabilizing supplies and reducing price volatility (IFPRI, 2025). …”
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Payments for environmental services: some nuts and bolts por Wunder, Sven

“…This assessment is based on a literature review, combined with field observations from research in Latin America and Asia. It concludes that service users will continue to drive PES, but their willingness to pay will only rise if schemes can demonstrate clear additionality vis-à-vis carefully established baselines, if trust-building processes with service providers are sustained, and PES recipients’ livelihood dynamics is better understood. …”
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Exclusion e inclusion en la foresteria latinoamericana: hacia donde va la descentralizacion? por Larson, A.M., Pacheco, P., Toni, F., Vallejo Larios, M.

“…The book has three principal goals: to propose a theoretical framework to conceptualize more effectively the relationship among decentralization, governance and livelihoods; to assess the current state of forestry decentralizations in Latin America, with particular attention to the role of sub-national governments and the effects on “marginalized” forest-dependent groups; and to identify research and actions that could increase the benefits of decentralization for these groups.…”
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