Resultados de búsqueda - "the Americas"

Latin America: A Model for the Global Plant Cryopreservation Initiative por Ellis, David, Vollmer, R., Souza, F.V.D., Azevedo, V.C.R.

“…Latin America (Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central and South America) is a megadiverse region. …”
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O avanco da agricultura sustentavel na America Latina por Kaimowitz, D.

“…Este documento examina até onde a América Latina avançou na busca de uma agricultura mais sustentável, e alguns fatores que explicam esse grau de avanço. …”
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Latin America: Where urbanization and poverty peak together with biodiversity? por Sanchez-Sarria, Camilo E., Bonilla-Moheno, Martha, Vázquez, Luis-Bernardo, MacGregor-Fors, Ian

“…Latin America is a region that houses many of the global biodiversity hotspots. …”
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The two sides of migration in Central America: Distributional impacts in Guatemala por Escalante, Luis Enrique, Aragie, Emerta A., Hernandez, Manuel A.

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Regulating industrial forest concessions in Central Africa and South America por Karsenty, A., Drigo, I.G., Piketty, M.G., Singer, B.

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The role of informal institutions in the use of forest resources in Latin America por Pacheco, P., Barry, D.M., Cronkleton, P., Larson, A.M.

“…This study adopts an institutional approach to analyze the way in which informal rules, in their interaction with formal rules, shape the use of forest resources by diverse types of smallholders and communities (i.e., indigenous people, agro-extractive and traditional communities) in Latin America. Attention is given to understanding the ‘working rules’, comprising both formal and informal rules, that individuals use in making their decisions for land and forest resources access and use, which in turn affect benefits generation and distribution from such resources use. …”
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Will livestock intensification help save Latin America's tropical forest? por Kaimowitz, D., Angelsen, A.

“…Researchers have long argued that improved livestock technologies and intensification will reduce the pressure on Latin America's forests. This article combines economic theory with insights from seven case studies to examine under what conditions technological change will reduce (or increase) forest clearing. …”
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Opportunities and challenges for community forestry: lessons from tropical America por Jong, W. de, Cornejo, C., Pacheco, P., Pokorny, B., Stoian, D., Sabogal, C., Louman, Bastian

“…Community forestry is pursued as rural development strategy in many tropical forest regions worldwide. In Tropical America, rich experiences have been accumulated with community forestry support initiatives and this chapter summarizes published and the author’s hands on experiences. …”
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Rights to forests and carbon under REDD+ initiatives in Latin America por Larson, A.M., Corbera, E., Cronkleton, P., Dam, C. van, Bray, D.B., Estrada, M., May, P., Medina, G., Navarro, G., Pacheco, P.

“…Rights to large areas of forest have been granted to communities and indigenous peoples in Latin America, offering these groups an opportunity to participate in REDD+ initiatives. …”
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Gender and sustainable forest management in East Africa and Latin America por Mwangi, E., Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S., Yan Sun

“…This paper presents a comparative study of forest management across four countries in East Africa and Latin America: Kenya, Uganda, Bolivia, and Mexico. It focuses on one question: Do varying proportions of women (low, mixed, high) in forest user groups influence their likelihood of adopting forest resource enhancing behavior? …”
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Forests and climate change in Latin America: linking adaptation and mitigation por Locatelli, Bruno, Evans, V., Wardell, A., Andrade, A., Vignola, Raffaele

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Transformación de los paisajes tropicales en América Latina por Pacheco, P., Aguilar-Støen, M., Borner, J., Etter, A., Putzel, L., Vera-Diaz, M.D.C.

“…En los paisajes tropicales de América Latina están teniendo lugar importantes transformaciones con consecuencias sobre el desarrollo económico y el cambio climático. …”
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Banana in Latin America and the Caribbean: current state, challenges and perspectives por Dita, M.A., Garming, H., Bergh, Inge van den, Staver, Charles, Lescot, T.

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Current development and application of plant cryopreservation in Latin America and the Caribbean por González Arnao, M.T., Engelmann, F.

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Managing the grazing resource for animal production in savannas of tropical America por Lascano Aguilar, Carlos Eduardo

“…Research carried out to evaluate management options and animal production potential of native and improved pastures in savanna regions of tropical America is reviewed, with emphasis on Colombia's Eastern Plains. …”
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Land and forest degradation inside protected areas in Latin America por Leisher, C., Touval, Jerome L., Hess, SM, Boucher, TM, Reymondin, Louis

“…Using six years of remote sensing data, we estimated land and forest degradation inside 1788 protected areas across 19 countries in Latin America. From 2004–2009, the rate of land and forest degradation increased by 250% inside the protected areas, and the land and forest degradation totaled 1,097,618 hectares. …”
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Climate-smart agriculture country profiles: Latin America and the Caribbean por World Bank, Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza, International Center for Tropical Agriculture

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Mejoramiento genético de la yuca en América Latina por Hershey, Clair H.

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Producción eco-eficiente del arroz en América Latina por Degiovanni Beltramo, Víctor M., Martínez Racines, César Pompilio, Motta O, F

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Sistemas agropastoriles en sabanas tropicales de América Latina por Guimarães, Elcio Perpétuo, Sanz Scovino, José Ignacio, Rao, Idupulapati M., Amézquita, María Cristina, Amézquita Collazos, Edgar

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