Search Results - "Mexico"

Association mapping of resistance to tar spot complex in maize by Shufeng Yan, Loladze, Alexander, Nan Wang, Shuku Sun, Chilvers, Martin I., Olsen, Michael, Burgueño, Juan, Petroli, César Daniel, Molnar, Terence Luke, San Vicente, Felix M., Xuecai Zhang, Boddupalli, P.M.

“…Tar spot complex (TSC) is a major fungal disease of maize in Mexico and several Central and South American countries. …”
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Assessing the skill of gridded satellite and re-analysis precipitation products over altitudinal gradient in East and Southern Africa by Muthoni, Francis K., Kigosi, Exavery

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Nuevas Demandas Tecnológicas: Marco Metodológico de un Proyecto INIAs/BID/ISNAR by International Service for National Agricultural Research

“…Este documento presenta la base conceptual y el marco metodológico para el proyecto colaborativo de investigación ""Respuestas de la Investigación Agrícola a las Nuevas Demandas Tecnológicas: Agroindustria y Recursos Naturales"", el que fue ejecutado en forma conjunta por varios institutos nacionales de investigación agrícola de América Latina (Argentina, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, México y Venezuela), apoyados por los programas regionales de coordinación PROCISUR y PROCIANDINO, así como por el ISNAR. …”
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Silvopastoral systems and their role in climate change mitigation and nationally determined contributions in Latin America by Rivera, Julián Esteban, Serna, Laura, Arango, Jacobo, Barahona, Rolando, Murgueitio, Enrique, Torres, Felipe, Chará, Julián

“…Countries such as Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Paraguay, Uruguay, highlight the need to have mitigation options in livestock activities in order to achieve the objectives proposed in their NDCs, which aim at reductions above 30% of the inertial scenarios.…”
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ICTforAg 2023: Cultivating inclusion by Koo, Jawoo, Goss, Courtney

“…In addition to the main sessions, the conference also featured the Expo, virtual exhibition space that allowed various organizations from academia, research, and the private sector to showcase their innovations interactively, the Inspire Challenge, a new Pay-for-Results program intended to increase women’s participation in digital agri-food advisory services and programs, the ICTforAg+ Satellite Events, a series of locally-led satellite events in four countries (Indonesia, Mexico, Nepal, and India), and the ICTforAg Learning Network, an online platform designed to support the collaboration amongst the global ICTforAg community of practice.…”
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The reaction of CIMMYT durum wheat genotypes to Fusarium pseudograminearum at seedling and adult plant stages by Yilmaz, Olgaç Doğu, Karakaya, Aziz, Erginbas-Orakci, Gul, Aydogan, Sinan, Ammar, Karim, Dababat, Abdelfattah A.

“…In this study, a total of 199 durum wheat genotypes provided by the International Wheat and Maize Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Mexico, and five control genotypes were tested for their resistance reactions to F. pseudograminearum under both growth room and greenhouse conditions. …”
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Children’s and adolescents’ rising animal-source food intakes in 1990–2018 were impacted by age, region, parental education and urbanicity by Miller, Victoria, Webb, Patrick, Cudhea, Frederick, Zhang, Jianyi, Reedy, Julia, Shi, Peilin, Erndt-Marino, Josh, Coates, Jennifer, Micha, Renata, Mozaffarian, Dariush, de Brauw, Alan, Moursi, Mourad

“…In 2018, total ASF consumption was highest in Russia, Brazil, Mexico and Turkey, and lowest in Uganda, India, Kenya and Bangladesh. …”
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ICTforAg 2023: Cultivating inclusion by Koo, Jawoo, Goss, Courtney

“…In addition to the main sessions, the conference also featured the Expo, virtual exhibition space that allowed various organizations from academia, research, and the private sector to showcase their innovations interactively, the Inspire Challenge, a new Pay-for-Results program intended to increase women’s participation in digital agri-food advisory services and programs, the ICTforAg+ Satellite Events, a series of locally-led satellite events in four countries (Indonesia, Mexico, Nepal, and India), and the ICTforAg Learning Network, an online platform designed to support the collaboration amongst the global ICTforAg community of practice.…”
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Conditional cash transfers in Latin America by Adato, Michelle, Hoddinott, John F.

“…The contributors synthesize evidence and analysis from four case studies of Brazil, Honduras, Mexico, and Nicaragua. Using state-of-the-art quantitative and qualitative methods, the studies examine various aspects of CCTs, including the trends in development and political economy that fostered interest in them; their impacts on education, health, nutrition, and food consumption; and how CCT programs affect -- and how their outcomes are affected by -- social relations shaped by gender, culture, and community. …”
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Assessing the impact of agricultural research on poverty using the sustainable livelihoods framework by Adato, Michelle, Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.

“…It provides an overview of the sustainable livelihoods approach, how it can be applied to agricultural research, and describes detailed methods and results from five case studies: (1) modern rice varieties in Bangladesh; (2) polyculture fishponds and vegetable gardens in Bangladesh; (3) soil fertility management practices in Kenya; (4) hybrid maize in Zimbabwe; and (5) creolized maize varieties in Mexico.…”
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Soil pedotransfer functions for 4 mexican soils by Bell, M.A., van Keulen, H.

“…We developed PTF for CEC and moisture retention at −1500 kPa for soils from four contrasting agro‐ecological environments in Mexico. The PTF relating CEC to clay content, soil organic matter content (SOM), and pH explained 96% of the variability. …”
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Mapeo de políticas de cambio climático, agricultura e innovación en países de América Latina by Perez Marulanda, Lisset, Rivas, Juan Sebastian, Martinez Baron, Deissy, Collazos, Sara, Gonzalez, Carlos

“…Este documento analiza el mapeo y evaluación de políticas públicas relacionadas con cambio climático, innovación y agricultura en cinco países de América Latina: Colombia, Perú, Guatemala, Honduras y México. Basándose en 78 instrumentos de política y 112 productos de conocimiento generados por la iniciativa del CGIAR AgriLAC Resiliente, se identifican oportunidades y vacíos en la integración de la innovación agropecuaria como catalizador para enfrentar desafíos climáticos, fortalecer la seguridad alimentaria y promover el desarrollo rural sostenible. …”
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An evaluation of kernel zinc in hybrids of elite Quality Protein Maize (QPM) and Non-QPM inbred lines adapted to the tropics based on a mating design by Mageto, Edna K., Lee, Michael, Dhliwayo, Thanda, Palacios-Rojas, Natalia, San Vicente, Felix, Burgueño, Juan, Hallauer, Arnel R.

“…Twenty elite inbreds, 10 QPM and 10 non-QPM, were crossed according to a modified mating design to generate hybrids, which were evaluated in four environments in Mexico during 2015 and 2016 in order to evaluate their merits as parents of hybrids. …”
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Intrahousehold allocation, gender relations, and food security in developing countries by Quisumbing, Agnes R., Smith, Lisa C.

“…Finally, it suggests two broad policy options to achieve gender equity: (1) eradicating discrimination and (2) promoting active catch-up of women’s status, providing examples of successful programs in Bangladesh, Guatemala, and Mexico. Your assignment is to recommend to the government of a country of your choice how gender aspects should be incorporated in government policy to improve household food security and the nutritional status of women and children.…”
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The fungal and protist community as affected by tillage, crop residue burning and N fertilizer application by Dendooven, Luc, Pérez‑Hernández, Valentín, Gómez-Acata, Selene, Verhulst, Nele, Govaerts, Bram, Luna-Guido, Marco, Navarro–Noya, Yendi E.

“…Borlaug’ (CENEB) in the Yaqui Valley in the northwest of Mexico in the early 1990s, and the fungal and protist community determined. …”
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Manejo del bosque natural latifoliado en el Tropico Americano: bibliographia

“…La cobertura geográfica se limita a América Tropical; esto es, desde el sureste de México hasta el norte de Argentina, abarcando de esta manera los bosques neotropicales de zonas climáticas tropicales y subtropicales. …”
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Carbon sequestration and sustainable livelihoods: a workshop synthesis by Murdiyarso, Daniel, Herawati, H., Iskandar, H.

“…The lessons learned from such initiatives in Mexico, Colombia, Costa Rica, Philippines, Indonesia, and Timor Leste generally demonstrate the importance of engaging strong local participation. …”
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Global adaptation of spring bread and durum wheat lines near-isogenic for major reduced height genes by Mathews, KL, Chapman, SC, Trethowan, R, Singh, R.P., Crossa, J.L., Pfeiffer, Wolfgang H., Ginkel, M. van, DeLacy, I

“…Sixteen pairs of semidwarf–tall near-isolines were grown in six managed drought environment trials (DETs) in northwestern Mexico. In these trials, semidwarfs outyielded talls in all but the most droughted environment (2.5 Mg ha?…”
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Inheritance of resistance to Acanthoscelides obtectus in a wild common bean accession crossed to commercial bean cultivars by Kornegay, Julia L., Cardona, C.

“…A few wild bean accessions from Mexico have been identified as highly resistant to the weevil. …”
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Simple sequence repeat marker diversity in cassava landraces: Genetic diversity and differentiation in an asexually propagated crop by Fregene, Martin A., Suarez, MC, Mkumbira, J., Kulembeka, H.P., Ndedya, E, Kulaya, A, Mitchel, S, Gullberg, U., Rosling, H., Dixon, Alfred G.O., Dean, R., Kresovich, Stephen

“…To elucidate genetic diversity and differentiation in the crop's primary and secondary centers of diversity, and the forces shaping them, SSR marker variation was assessed at 67 loci in 283 accessions of cassava landraces from Africa (Tanzania and Nigeria) and the Neotropics (Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, Guatemala, Mexico and Argentina). Average gene diversity (i.e., genetic diversity) was high in all countries, with an average heterozygosity of 0.5358 ± 0.1184. …”
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