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Achilles' Heel: a story map
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/75620
Abstract
A story about the vital importance of cassava in Southeast Asia, and the many risks this “Rambo root” faces from pest and disease outbreaks.
Publication year
2015
Authors
Smith, Georgina
Graziosi, Ignazio
Parker, Louis
Wyckhuys, Kris A.G.
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Smith, Georgina…
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Lessons from Panama on combining REDD+ and land restoration to reduce net emissions
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/75624
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Panama, like other tropical countries, is undergoing land-use change that is contributing to greenhouse gas emissions. An analysis was made of the principal land-use changes, losses and gains of carbon stocks and potential impacts on livelihoods. We also analyzed the potential of policies to reduce net emissions through the REDD and Alliance for the Million Hectares (AMH).
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Convenio CVC CIAT
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/75634
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En el marco del convenio CVC-CIAT #033 “Aunar esfuerzos y recursos humanos, económicos y técnicos para realizar acciones en el marco de la adaptación y la mitigación al Cambio Climático en el Valle del Cauca” se ha consolidado un espacio multisectorial e interinstitucional llamado Red Interinstitucional de Cambio Climático.
El convenio busca la Institucionalización de la temática de Cambio Climático (CC) en la gestión ambiental y la planeación para el desarrollo. De esta…
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Bittersweet chocolate: the climate change impacts on cocoa production in Ghana
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/75621
Abstract
Climate change will be bittersweet for cocoa in Ghana. It will be less affected than other producer nations, but adaptation will be a tough challenge.
Publication year
2015
Authors
Bunn, Christian
Läderach, Peter R.D.
Quaye, Amos
Muilerman, Sander
Lundy, Mark M…
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Traveling the world with crop wild relatives: dare to explore the amazing world
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/75626
Abstract
A world tour of where to find some vital wild plants that could help secure our future food supply.
Publication year
2015
Authors
International Center for Tropical Agriculture
Full Citation
CIAT. 2015. Traveling the world with crop wild relatives: dare to explore…
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Fiebre de Oro en el Amazonas Peruano
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/75623
Abstract
El siguiente Storymaps relata en siete pestañas la problemática actual causada por la minería de oro en uno de los ecosistemas más afectados en la cuenca Amazónica de Perú, específicamente en la región de Madre de Dios.
Publication year
2015
Authors
Menzinger, Bernadette
Paz, Paula Andrea
Bautista, Oscar…
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Sustainable Amazonian Landscapes Project
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/75625
Abstract
Colombia and Peru host together 23% of the Amazon. Both countries are committed to reduce their greenhouse gases emissions, improve national and local capacities to adapt to climate change, enhance local livelihoods in forests and reduce net deforestation.
With the aim of contributing to these commitments, we selected two sites to be our areas of study in the Peruvian and Colombian Amazon: Yurimaguas (Peru) and Caquetá (Colombia), where we will…
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Exploring dryland cereals and legumes for addressing food security: ATLAS DCL CGIAR, Research Program on Dryland Cereals and Legumes Agri-Food Systems
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/75630
Abstract
Population growth and climate change threatens the world’s capacity to produce food into the future. Dryland cereal and legume (DCL) crops are part of any global solution to food security challenges. But these crops are often overlooked and under researched when compared to the main staples such as rice, wheat and maize. What are the priority…
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Engaging Farmers and Experts in Feedback loops - the 5Q approach
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/75627
Abstract
An overview of CIAT’s pioneering new approach to increase the impact of research projects. 5Q is a simple, cheap and potentially highly-effective monitoring and evaluation system that has been tested in Tanzania.
Publication year
2015
Authors
International Center for Tropical Agriculture
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Uso de recombinantes de Phaseolus vulgaris L., P. coccineus L. y P. acutifolius A. Gray para mejorar la tolerancia del frijol común a diferentes tipos de estrés abiótico. Thesis (Ph.D.)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/78146
Abstract
El frijol común, Phaseolus vulgaris L., es una de las leguminosas de consumo humano más importantes a nivel mundial y su cultivo está principalmente en manos de pequeños productores, que enfrentan una serie de limitantes bióticas y abióticas para su producción. Dentro de las abióticas están el estrés por…
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Lablab Purpureus (L) Sweet: A promising multipurpose legume for enhanced drought resistance in smallholder farming-systems of eastern Kenya. M.Sc. Thesis (Sustainable International Agriculture, Specialization in Tropical Agriculture)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/59764
Publication year
2014
Authors
Grotelüschen, Kristina
Full Citation
Grotelüschen, Kristina. 2014. Lablab Purpureus (L) Sweet : A promising…
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Multilevel stakeholder influence mapping in climate change adaptation regimes
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/33568
Abstract
The extent to which any policy, planning, or funding frameworks aimed at supporting climate change adaptation contribute to improved adaptive capacity of smallholder farmers is strongly affected by the power/influence dynamics between actors within those regimes. Power and influence studies have renewed relevance due to the current proliferation of adaptation initiatives. As these initiatives evolve, they bring up…
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Caracterización de la degradación de los pantanos de palmeras turbosos desde el espacio y sobre el terreno: Un estudio exploratorio en la Amazonia peruana
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/93465
Publication year
2017
Authors
Hergoualc'h, Kristell
Gutiérrez Vélez, Victor Hugo
Menton, M.
Verchot, Louis V.
Full Citation
Hergoualc'h, K., Gutierrez-Velez, V.H., Menton, M., Verchot, L.V.. 2017.…
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Returns to food and agricultural R&D; Investments worldwide, 1958-2015
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/119583
Abstract
Zvi Griliches published the first formal economic estimate of the rates of return to food and agricultural R&D in the Journal of Political Economy more than half a century ago. Since then many economists have published a large number of similar estimates. The consensus that has emerged from this vast body of work is that these rates of return have been exceptionally high regardless of the type of research (e.g…
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Aquaculture value chain performance
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/128407
Abstract
The aquaculture value chain performance survey was conducted with 1195 actors including 721 fish farm households, 66 fish hatcheries, 79 fish feed traders and 329 fish traders in south and southwest regions of Bangladesh
Publication year
2022
Authors
Ali, Hazrat
Belton, Ben
Khondker, Murshed-E-Jahan
Hernández, Ricardo…
