Resultados de búsqueda - "Latin Americans"

Evidence and Lessons from Latin America (ELLA) por Harvey, Blane, Ensor, Jonathan, Garside, Ben, Woodend, John, Naess, Lars Otto, Carlile, Liz

“…The climate change agenda was a key demand topic. Latin American partners consisted of regional centres of expertise across three broad areas of economic (growth) learning, governance, and environmental issues. …”
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Establishment and management of leucaena in Latin America por Pachas, Anibal Nahuel, Radrizzani Bonadeo, Alejandro, Murgueitio, Enrique, Uribe, Fernando, Zapata Cadavid, Álvaro, Chará, Julián, Ruiz, Tomás E., Escalante, Eduardo, Mauricio, Rogerio M., Ramírez-Avilés, Luis

“…Leucaena leucocephala (leucaena) is native to Mexico and Central America and is currently naturalized in the majority of Latin American countries. Over the last 2 decades, considerable research and promotion of leucaena have been carried out in Colombia, Mexico, Cuba, Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina. …”
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Pasture diversification affects soil macrofauna and soil biophysical properties in tropical (silvo)pastoral systems por Vázquez, Eduardo, Teutscherova, Nikola, Lojka, Bohdan, Arango, Jacobo, Pulleman, Mirjam Margreet

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Joint decision-making and women’s agency on small-scale farms in Colombia and Nicaragua por García, Maria Alejandra, Godek, Wendy, Twyman, Jennifer

“…This study focuses on rural communities in two Latin American countries, Nicaragua and Colombia. We begin with a brief discussion of the recent literature on household decision-making. …”
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Chapter 11 - Traditional uses, processing, and markets: the case of sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.) por Heider, B., Paredes, N.J., Sørensen, M.

“…As an ancient Latin American and major root crop, the sweetpotato has a long domestication history involving large areas in Central and South America. …”
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Inheritance of anthracnose resistance in common bean accession G 2333 por Pastor Corrales, Marcial A., Erazo, OA, Estrada Salazar, EI

“…Common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) germ plasm accession G 2333 (Colorado de Teopisca) from Mexico was resistant to 380 isolates of the anthracnose pathogen (Colletotrichum lindemuthianum) from 11 Latin American countries. Six frequently used sources of resistance were susceptiblc to many isolates. …”
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Perfiles de la pobreza y la desigualdad en América Latina por Rivas Ríos, Libardo

“…The generation of employment is basic to any strategy that aims to reduce poverty. Many Latin American farmers own insufficient land, if any, a factor that prevents them from producing enough to leave poverty behind. …”
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Mejoramiento genético y actividades relacionadas. Mejoramiento de características individuales. Resistencia a enfermedades virosas por International Center for Tropical Agriculture

“…During 1986, research emphasis was shifted to BGMV while BCMV research focused on the incorporation of blackroot resistance in African germplasm and the backcrossing of I gene into Latin American var. The identification of alternate host plant species for BGMV is critical in the understanding of the endemic and epidemic characteristics of this virus. …”
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Genetic improvement and related activities. Improvement of individual characters. Resistance to viral diseases por International Center for Tropical Agriculture

“…During 1986, research emphasis was shifted to BGMV while BCMV research focused on the incorporation of blackroot resistance in African germplasm and the backcrossing of I gene into Latin American var. The identification of alternate host plant species for BGMV is critical in the understanding of the endemic and epidemic characteristics of this virus. …”
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Physicochemical Properties of Fresh Floury Corn Kernels Affected by Refrigeration and Packaging por Arenas Ochoa, Evelyn Gisela, Herrera Arevalo, Aníbal Orlando, Ligarreto Moreno, Gustavo Adolfo

“…Fresh corn, or tender kernels, is one of the more commonly used traditional foods for human consumption in Latin American countries. Still, it is perishable, and there are few studies of conservation techniques to improve product use. …”
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Integrating nature-based solutions for resilient watershed management a comparative study in urban and semi-urban watersheds of Panama and Honduras por Benegas Negri, Laura A, Ríos Ramírez, José Ney, Fino Rodríguez, Líber Ilyá, Mosquera Ballejos, Carlina Felicia, Ibáñez López, Ovidio

“…This study explores the operationalization of nature-based solutions (NbS) for watershed resilience in two contrasting Latin American contexts: the Caimito watershed in Panama and the El Coyolar watershed in Honduras. …”
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News releases por International Center for Tropical Agriculture

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Scaling-up climate services with users in Latin America por Navarro-Racines, Carlos Eduardo, Pons, Diego, Müller, Anna, González Romero, Carmen, Muñoz, Angel G, Giraldo Mendez, Diana Carolina, Martínez Barón, Deissy, Prager, Steven D., Ramírez Villegas, Julián Armando

“…Currently, 35 LTACs exist in 9 Latin American countries, engaging more than 250 public and private institutions, increasing the resilience and food security of an estimated 330,000 farmers, and potentially transforming how Latin American farmers manage climate risk. …”
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Performance of various cassava clones in the dry savanna region of Nigeria por Ekeneyake, I.J., Dixon, Alfred G.O., Porto, M.C.M.

“…Field studies conducted at two lowland sites in the northern Guinea and Sudan savanna zones of Nigeria revealed a wide genetic variability in adaptation among African and introduced Latin American germplasm. Significant genotypic variability for stomatal response to dry weather fibrous root development, leaf stay-green ability, tuberous root yield and apparent water-use efficiency have been noted. …”
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New Technological Demands: The Methodological Framework for an INIAs/BID/ISNAR Project por International Service for National Agricultural Research

“…This book presents the conceptual and methodological basis for the cooperative research project titled "Identifying and Responding to New Technological Demands for Agricultural Research from Agroindustry and Natural Resource Management", that was jointly executed by several Latin American national agricultural research institutes (Argentina; South America; , Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Venezuela), assisted by the regional coordinating programs PROCISUR and PROCIANDINO, as well as ISNAR. …”
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Making information accessible por Monge, F

“…The following are analyzed: the relation between information and research; characteristics of the Latin American scientist regarding information production and consumption; publication infrastructure, that in Latin America is another illustration of the vicious circle of under-development; the services offered by the Scientific Information Exchange Unit at the Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT); and the concept of consolidated information that includes not only the recollection and dissemination of the results of research but also the mechanisms that synthesize these results and integrate them as scientific and technical knowledge to contribute to the advance ofscience and to the solution of problems. …”
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Indigenous smallholder struggles in Peru: Nutrition security, agrobiodiversity, and food sovereignty amid transforming global systems and climate change por Zimmerer, Karl S., Haan, Stef de, Jones, Andrew D., Creed-Kanashiro, Hilary M., Tello, M., Plascencia, F., Carrasco, M., Meza, K., Tubbeh, Ramzi, Nguyen, Kien Tri, Hultquist, C.

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Sistema Agroforestal Quesungual (SAQ): Mejorando la productividad del agua la seguridad alimentaria y la calidad de los recursos en el trópico sub-húmedo por Castro, A., Rivera, M., Ferreira, Oscar, Pavon, Jellin, Valladares, D., García, E., Amézquita Collazos, Edgar, Ayarza, Miguel Angel, Barrios, E., Rondón, Marco Antonio, Welchez, L.A., Rao, Idupulapati M.

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A modification of the arcsine–log calibration curve for analysing soil test value–relative yield relationships por Correndo, Adrián A., Salvagiotti, Fernando, García, Fernando O., Gutierrez Boem, Flavio Hernán

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