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  1. Greening of livestock landscaped under climate change: Insights from stakeholder consultations in Latin America and the Caribbean by Organizing Committee of the Two Degree Initiative Grand Challenge

    Published 2020
    “…Key messages – Pilot actions to transition towards sustainable livestock have been rolled out in many countries across Latin America and the Caribbean, with support from research institutes, universities, government and non-government entities, generating important learnings for the sector. – Collaboration with private actors— especially farmer groups and associations—are being formed to scale initiatives for low-emission meat and dairy value chains. – Many existing farm and landscape management initiatives at national and sub-national levels— including context-adapted production practices—can deliver valuable knowledge and learnings with relevance for the entire region. – Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) of emissions of greenhouse gases needs to be guided by simple, user-friendly and reliable systems. …”
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  2. The digital agriculture project has transformed the use of data to promote climate smart agriculture in Latin America. by Jimenez, Daniel

    Published 2022
    “…The Digital Agriculture project has transformed the use of data to support promoting climate smart agriculture and increasing yields in eight Latin American countries. It has promoted new open-source data analysis tools, built capacities to use the new technologies and assisted in the creation and application of new data sets to support decision- making. …”
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  3. The impact of conditional cash transfer programs on indigenous households in Latin America: Evidence from PROGRESA in Mexico by Quiñones, Esteban J., Roy, Shalini

    Published 2016
    “…Conditional cash transfers(CCTs) are widely used antipoverty measuresin Latin America, and manysuch programs include indigenous beneficiaries.However, concerns have been raised that the indigenous poor,who have historically been marginalized,may not benefit from CCTsas much as the nonindigenouspopulation, owing to cultural as well as geographic factors. …”
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  4. Navigating the trade landscape: A Latin American perspective building on the WTO 13th ministerial conference by Piñeiro, Valeria, Campos Azofeifa, Adriana, Piñeiro, Martin

    Published 2024
    “…In recent years, the growth of production and exports has converted Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) into the largest net food exporting region in the world. …”
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  5. Trade and investment in Latin America and Asia: Lessons from the past and potential perspectives from further integration by Berisha-Krasniqi, Valdete, Bouët, Antoine, Estrades, Carmen, Laborde Debucquet, David

    Published 2011
    “…These modeling improvements enable us to examine the potential impact of an FTA on FDI, a key aspect of economic relations between Asia and Latin America. The findings in this study show that an FTA between Asia and Latin America would bring benefits to most FTA members, although gains would be higher for Latin American countries as a result of increased investment inflows as well as increased exports to Asia under the FTA.…”
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  6. Creating a child feeding index using the demographic and health surveys: an example from Latin America by Ruel, Marie T., Menon, Purnima

    Published 2002
    “…Data from the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) for five Latin American countries (seven data sets) were used to explore the feasibility of creating a composite feeding index and to examine the association between feeding practices and child height-for-age (HAZ). …”
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  7. Creating a child feeding index using the demographic and health surveys: an example from Latin America by Ruel, Marie T., Menon, Purnima

    Published 2002
    “…Data from the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) for five Latin American countries (seven data sets) were used to explore the feasibility of creating a composite feeding index and to examine the association between feeding practices and child height-for-age (HAZ). …”
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  8. The betting line on beef: ex ante estimates of the benefits of research on improved pasture for the Latin American tropics by Seré, Carlos, Jarvis, Lovell S.

    Published 1990
    “…This paper estimates that the expected returns to improved pasture research (IPR) in the Latin American tropics are very high and suggests that current research in IPR is significantly underfunded. …”
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  9. Public-private partnerships for innovation-led growth in agrichains: a useful tool for development in Latin America? by Hartwich, Frank, González, Carolina, Vieira, Luis-Fernando

    Published 2005
    “…Public-private partnerships have become increasingly important as an arrangement that serves to encourage innovation in agricultural production chains in Latin America. However, some observers have expressed concern that this institutional arrangement may mostly favor the interests of the private sector without producing sufficient social benefits for the public. …”
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  10. The acceptance of zinc biofortified rice in Latin America: A consumer sensory study and grain quality characterization by Woods, Bo-Jane, Gallego-Castillo, Sonia, Talsma, Elise F., Álvarez, Daniel

    Published 2020
    “…Zinc deficiency is a major public health problem in vulnerable populations of Latin America and the Caribbean. Biofortification of rice (*Oryza sativa* L.) with zinc has the potential to alleviate zinc deficiencies. …”
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  11. Estimating the environmental Kuznets curve for cattle production and environmental degradation in Latin America, Africa, and Southeast Asia by Burkart, Stefan, Mejía, Daniela, Junca, John Jairo

    Published 2025
    “…This article investigates the relationship between economic growth in cattle farming and environmental degradation through the lens of the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) for Latin America, Africa, and Southeast Asia between 2000 and 2020. …”
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