Resultados de búsqueda - "Latin Americans"

On the use of the SF6 gas tracer technique in Latin America for measuring methane emissions in ruminants : a review and analysis por Loza, Cecilia, Ceron Cucchi, Maria Esperanza, Cabezas-Garcia, Edward Hernando, Ortiz Chura, Abimael, Gualdrón-Duarte, Laura Bibiana, Gere, José Ignacio

“…The SF6 gas tracer technique is extensively used to measure enteric CH4 emissions for scientific research in Latin-American countries. Although guidelines on how to properly implement this technique have been published, its use has been the subject of considerable uncertainty due to a high variation within measurements when compared to results obtained with other techniques. …”
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Institutional challenges in putting ecosystem service knowledge in practice por Saarikoski, Heli, Primmer, Eeva, Saarela, Sanna-Riikka, Antunes, Paula, Baró, Francesc, Berry, Pam, Garcia Blanko, Gemma, Gómez-Baggethun, Erik, Carvalho, Lawrence, Dick, Jan, Dunford, Robert, Hanzu, Mihail, Harrison, Paula A., Izakovicova, Zita, Kertész, Miklós, Kopperoinen, Leena, Köhler, Berit, Langemeyer, Johannes, Lapola, David, Liquete, Camino, Luque, Sandra, Mederly, Peter, Niemelä, Jari, Palomo, Ignacio, Martinez Pastur, Guillermo José, Peri, Pablo Luis, Preda, Elena, Priess, Jörg A., Santos, Rui Ferreira Dos, Schleyer, Christian, Turkelboom, Francis, Vadineanu, Angheluta, Verheyden, Wim, Vikström, Suvi, Young, Juliette, Aszalós, Réka

“…We analyse how knowledge on ecosystem services is actually used to inform land and water management in 22 case studies covering different social-ecological systems in European and Latin American countries. None of the case studies reported instrumental use of knowledge in a sense that ecosystem service knowledge would have served as an impartial arbiter between policy options. …”
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Transforming critical agrarian studies: Solidarity, scholar-activism and emancipatory agendas in and from the Global South por Aguiar, Diana, Ahmed, Yasmin, Avcı, Duygu, Bastos, Gabriel, Batubara, Bosman, Bejeno, Cynthia, Camacho-Benavides, Claudia I., Chauhan, Komal, Coronado, Sergio, Das, Somashree, Ejarque, Mercedes, Valencia-Duarte, Diana María

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Multidimensional training among Latin America's restoration professionals por Meli, P., Schweizer, D., Brancalion, Pedro H.S., Murcia, C., Guariguata, Manuel R.

“…The ambitious restoration commitments made by Latin American countries have increased the demand for professionals having multidimensional training in ecological restoration; however, little is known about the kind of training that professionals are currently receiving. …”
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Climate change impacts and household resilience: Prospects for 2050 in Brazil, Mexico, and Peru por Andersen, Lykke E., Breisinger, Clemens, Jemio, Luis Carlos, Mason-D'Croz, Daniel, Ringler, Claudia, Robertson, Richard D., Verner, Dorte, Wiebelt, Manfred

“…This food policy report is a response to growing concerns about the impacts of climate change on Latin American economies, agriculture, and people. It assesses both local and global effects of changing agricultural yields on the economy, subnational regions, and different household types, including male- and female-headed households in Brazil, Mexico, and Peru. …”
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Economics of the Arab awakening: From revolution to transformation and food security por Breisinger, Clemens, Ecker, Olivier, Al-Riffai, Perrihan

“…Official poverty rates in most Arab countries are lower than in many Asian and Latin American countries. However, experts have long identified slow progress in economic diversification and job creation, social inequalities, and persistent food insecurity as major development challenges for Arab countries. …”
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Diverse genetic mechanisms underlie worldwide convergent rice feralization por Qiu, Jie, Jia, Lei, Wu, Dongya, Weng, Xifang, Chen, Lijuan, Sun, Jian, Chen, Meihong, Mao, Lingfeng, Jiang, Bowen, Ye, Chuyu, Turra, Guilherme Menegol, Guo, Longbiao, Ye, Guoyou, Zhu, Qian-Hao, Imaizumi, Toshiyuki, Song, Beng-Kah, Scarabel, Laura, Merotto, Aldo, Olsen, Kenneth M., Fan, Longjiang

“…Weed populations have evolved multiple times from cultivated rice, and a strikingly high proportion of contemporary Asian weed strains can be traced to a few Green Revolution cultivars that were widely grown in the late twentieth century. Latin American weedy rice stands out in having originated through extensive hybridization. …”
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Digital marketing of unhealthy foods and non-alcoholic beverages to children and adolescents: A narrative review por Fretes, Gabriela, Veliz, Paula, Narvaez, Ana Maria, Williams, D’Arcy, Sibille, Romain, Arts, Maaike, Leroy, Jef L.

“…We conducted a narrative review of the global evidence on digital marketing of these foods and drinks and studied policies and regulations in Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries. Evidence was limited to a few high, upper-middle and lower-middle income countries where children and adolescents were found to be extensively exposed to the digital marketing of unhealthy foods and non-alcoholic beverages and this exposure increased with age. …”
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Functional and nutritional characterization of a natural diet based on BIO102 iron biofortified beans in newly weaned mice por Jiménez‐Cardozo, N., Díaz‐Vesga, Magda C., Gallego-Castillo, Sonia, Álvarez, Daniel, Orozco‐Agredo, Juan Camilo, Ortega, José Guillermo, Morales‐Jiménez, Camilo

“…Biofortification, enhancing crop nutritional content, offers a promising solution rooted in Latin American culinary traditions. This study describes the nutritional features of a natural diet based on iron biofortified red beans (BIO102) and examines its physiological impact in newly weaned Balb/C male mice over a 4‐week period. …”
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Validation of enteric methane emissions by cattle estimated from mathematical models using data from in vivo experiments por Molina-Botero, Isabel, Díaz-Céspedes, Medardo, Mayorga-Mogollón, Olga, Ku-Vera, Juan, Arceo-Castillo, Jeyder, Montoya-Flores, María Denisse, Arango, Jacobo, Gómez-Bravo, Carlos

“…A database of 495 individual cattle CH4 emissions data (g day-1) obtained from 19 studies in three tropical Latin American countries was built for this study. Results showed that mathematical models developed for cattle in tropical production systems overestimated CH4 emissions when they were compared with our database. …”
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Bosques secundarios y manejo integrado de recursos en la agricultura migratoria por colonos en Latinoamérica por Smith, J., Finegan, B., Sabogal, C., Ferreira, M. do S.G., Siles, G., Kop, P. van de, Díaz, A.

“…This paper discusses the socioeconomic, policy and ecological opportunities and constraints to the regeneration and management of secondary forests (SF) on small scale colonist farms in three Latin American countries. So far there has been little recognition of SF as a forest resource. …”
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Descentralizacion de la gestion forestal en Honduras: mirando hacia el futuro por Vallejo Larios, M., Guillen Coronado, I.

“…Since the 1990’s many Latin American countries have been implementing administrative, financial and political decentralization policies to transfer certain responsibilities and authority from national to state and municipal governments. …”
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Genetic mapping of a dominant gene conferring resistance to cassava mosaic disease por Akano, A.O., Dixon, Alfred G.O., Mba, C, Barrera Sabogal, E., Fregene, Martin A.

“…Cassava mosaic disease (CMD) is the most-important disease of cassava (Manihot esculenta) in Africa, and is a potential threat to Latin American (LA) cassava production. Although this viral disease is still unknown in LA, its vector – the whitefly – has recently been found. …”
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Global cassava starch markets current situation and outlook por Henry, Guy, Westby, Andrew

“…Starting in the late 1980s and accelerating during the 90s, Latin-American and (to a minor extent) African cassava starch processing has expanded. …”
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Evaluating the potential of culms from sugarcane and energy cane varieties grown in Argentina for second‑generation ethanol production por Ousmane Kane, Aissata, Arnoldi Pellergini, Vanessa, Espirito Santo, Melissa, Diop Ngom, Balla, Garcia, José María, Acevedo, Alberto, Erazzu, Luis Ernesto, Polikarpov, Igor

“…Sugarcane is an important agricultural crop in a number of Latin American countries, including Brazil and Argentina. …”
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Quantitative risk assessment of human campylobacteriosis by consumption of salad cross-contaminated with thermophilic Campylobacter spp. from broiler meat in Argentina por Signorini, Marcelo, Zbrun, María Virginia, Romero Scharpen, Analía, Olivero, Carolina Raquel, Bongiovanni, Francisco Javier, Soto, Lorena Paola, Frizzo, Laureano Sebastian, Rosmini, Marcelo Raúl

“…The assessment considered initial contamination levels, cross-contamination and decontamination events during the broiler slaughter process and distribution, and storage and consumption patterns in Argentina and other Latin American countries. The model predicted an infection risk of 3.32 × 10−4 per serving. …”
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Validation of enteric methane emissions by cattle estimated from mathematical models using data from in vivo experiments por Molina Botero, Isabel, Díaz Céspedes, Medardo, Mayorga Mogollón, Olga, Ku Vera, Juan, Arceo Castillo, Jeyder, Montoya Flores, María Denisse, Arango, Jacobo, Gómez Bravo, Carlos

“…A database of 495 individual cattle CH4 emissions data (g day-1) obtained from 19 studies in three tropical Latin American countries was built for this study. Results showed that mathematical models developed for cattle in tropical production systems overestimated CH4 emissions when they were compared with our database. …”
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Harmonization of sustainability standards under the WTO framework as the core to create an intersection of trade and environment mutually supportive por Papendieck, Sabine, Elverdin, Pablo

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Los investigadores agrícolas latinoamericanos no divulgan la información que generan: breve análisis de la situación por Jiménez-Saa, H.

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La institucionalidad del crédito agropecuario en Colombia: un enfoque en el sector ganadero por Díaz, Manuel Francisco, Hurtado, Angie, Enciso, Karen, Burkart, Stefan

“…When examining the growth factors of the Latin American economies, it is observed that the promotion of rurality through agricultural production appears as a necessary condition. …”
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