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Peruvian authorities are using a gold mining monitoring tool for early detection of illegal gold mining in Southern Amazon
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/132372
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Gold mining in Peru has caused the loss of more than 96,000 hectares of primary forest in the last 30 years. In February 2019, the Peruvian government started an unprecedented mega-operation aimed at eradicating illegal gold mining in La Pampa by using a near real-time information system called RAMI (Radar Mining Monitoring) to detect gold mining and related…
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Dietary health clubs for ethnic minority women in Northern Vietnam improved diet quality through vegetable and nutrition capacity building and seed access.
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/132388
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Dietary health clubs were formed as a platform for creating awareness and exchanging information and skills on vegetables (seeds, production) and nutrition to enhance demand for and utilization of diverse vegetables and quality seeds. The club facilitators have increased their agency as change agents and sources of information in the…
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Over 130,000 farmers in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam, have used timely weather forecasts and advisories to improve farm decisions, leading to higher yields and profits
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/132401
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Through "Local Technical Agroclimatic Committees" (LTACs) and multiple media, timely Agro-Climatic Bulletins are being disseminated to over 130,000 farmers (520,000 beneficiaries) in 351 communities in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta and South-Central Coast. Based on a sample survey of 202 farmers in one province, the use of…
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Women’s investment club integrates climate-risk into accelerator and contributes to the uptake of climate-smart solutions in Senegal. AICCRA’s research and engagement is enhancing the awareness and capacity for private actors
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/132389
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Women's Investment Club incorporates climate risks analysis in their business support program and bring sustainability and climate adaptation in the financing process of women-led enterprises. Through the Gender-Smart Accelerator program, 20 women-led value chain…
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Participatory vegetable and seed system development enabled ethnic minority farmers in Northern Vietnam to form local value chain networks and increase production 5-7-fold.
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/132386
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Through participatory vegetable and seed system development, ethnic minority farmers in target sites were organized in value chain groups to jointly produce and market various vegetable seeds/seedlings and vegetables. With the support of project partner and local partners, the groups’ capacity to identify market…
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An innovative scalable climate information service platform for resilient agriculture is now operational in six provinces in the Philippines
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/132402
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The Alliance provided technical backstopping support to the Bicol Region in the Philippines to carry out a users’ need and climate risk assessment in its six provinces to collect essential information such as cropping calendars, historical climate risks, and initial risk responses, to develop climate information service database. This information is…
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Effects of the EU food safety regulation on cadmium on the cacao value chains of Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru
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This briefing note combines information from three country reports conducted between 2021 and 2022, as well as relevant findings from the available literature to examine the current state of knowledge of the spatial distribution of Cd content in cacao farms in the three countries, how the EU regulation has affected different stakeholders, and how they are managing the problem. With the information presented in this document, we also…
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Efectos del reglamento alimentario de la UE sobre el contenido de cadmio en las cadenas de valor de cacao de Colombia, Ecuador y Perú
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Esta nota informativo resume tres estudios a nivel de país efectuados entre 2021 y 2022 para presentar los hallazgos de la literatura diponible relacionada con la distribución espacial del Cd en los países, la forma en que el reglamento ha afectado a los distintos actores y las respuestas que han efectuado estos frente a la problemática. Con la información del presente documento, esperamos mejorar y actualizar…
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Conservation and prioritization of indigenous vegetables in the Philippines
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/132415
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Nutrition-related problems are a widespread challenge in the Philippines. Many factors contribute to these problems - the availability and affordability of vegetables, for example, which are jeopardized by challenges such as seasonality and inconsistent yields due to the impacts of climate change. Crop improvement and on-farm diversification, particularly using indigenous vegetables (IVs), can help address these…
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Let's show Structural Variations
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Genomes can be subject to Structural Variations (SVs): rearrangements of more than 50kb of a sequence of nucleotides. These variations can have various effects depending on where they take place in a genome (for example within a gene or a control region) and influence the phenotypes. Comparing these SVs between genomes enables scientists to better understand the links between the rearrangements and their effects. However there are few tools that offer a visual exploration of these SVs, as most of them focus…
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How many bean species are in Costa Rica today?
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/68046
Publication year
2015
Authors
Araya Villalobos, Rodolfo
Martínez Umaña, K.
Debouck, Daniel G.
Full Citation
Araya-Villalobos, R.; Martínez Umaña, K.; Debouck, Daniel G.. 2015. How many bean species are in Costa Rica today? .…
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Strengthening farmer-managed seed systems in South Africa
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This report presents field activities carried out in the period 2019-2022 in support of farmer-managed seed systems in South Africa, in particular the conservation efforts and participatory variety selection (PVS) carried out by the community seed banks of Gumbu, Jericho and Sterkspruit. The PVS was done on four priority crops selected by the farmers, cowpea, okra, pearl millet and sorghum, with the support of DALRRD and the Agricultural Research Council - Vegetable, Industrial and…
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Plan de investigación y desarrollo de la cadena productiva del aguacate Hass en el Valle del Cauca a partir de sus principales brechas tecnológicas
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La creciente demanda de aguacate Hass a nivel mundial ha abierto una ventana de oportunidades para países como Colombia, donde el cultivo ha experimentado un crecimiento considerable durante la última década. Lo anterior, debido al gran potencial productivo y exportador que se vislumbra desde el sector agrícola, atrae la atención de nuevos participantes en la cadena a nivel nacional. Por esta razón…
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Ganadores del Desafío para la Innovación Sostenible del Cacao: Forjando un futuro sostenible en la industria del cacao en Colombia
Con gran satisfacción anunciamos a los ganadores del Desafío para la Innovación Sostenible del Cacao, un evento que ha marcado un hito en la industria del cacao sostenible en Colombia.
El Desafío para la Innovación Sostenible del Cacao se lanzó en…
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Harnessing plant genetic resources for sustainable and diverse food production towards zero hunger
Within the framework of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources, an international group of researchers from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the Global Crop Diversity Trust, and the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT have written a policy-oriented publication titled ‘The plants…
