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A amazonia e os objetivos do milenio
(Instituto do Homem e Meio Ambiente da Amazonia, Belém (Brasil), 2007)Os Objetivos de Desenvolvimento do Milênio estabelecidos pela ONU propõem metas e indicadores para medir e orientar a melhoria nas condições socioeconômicas (pobreza, educação, saúde, desigualdade entre os gêneros, mortalidade ... -
A bean, corn and manioc polyculture cropping system, 2: A comparison between the yield and economic return from monoculture and polyculture cropping systems
(Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA), 1975-10-01)An experiment in which beans, maize, and cassava were planted in monoculture and polyculture systems was previously described in the first part of this report (Turrialba 25(3) 294-301 1975). The results of the experiment ... -
A bean, corn and manioc polyculture cropping system. I. The effect of interspecific competition on crop yield
(Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA), 1975-07)Frijoles (Phaseolus vulgaris), maíz (Zea mays) y yuca (Manihot esculenta) se plantaron separadamente en tres sistemas de monocultivo, y juntos en tres sistemas de policultivo, en Turrialba, Costa Rica. En un sistema de ... -
A case study of traditional agro-forestry practices in a wet tropical zone: the La Suiza project
(Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza, Turrialba (Costa Rica)., 1979) -
A case study on the effect of biological disease control on the rehabilitation of abandoned cocoa (Theobroma cacao) farms under two shading regimes and with two application times in Tingo Marái, Perú
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A combination of conserved and diverged responses underlies Theobroma cacao’s defense response to Phytophthora palmivora
(BMC Biology, 2024)Plants have complex and dynamic immune systems that have evolved to resist pathogens. Humans have worked to enhance these defenses in crops through breeding. However, many crops harbor only a fraction of the genetic diversity ... -
A common framework to model recovery in disturbed tropical forests
(Elsevier, 2023-06-11)Despite their exceptional biodiversity and carbon stocks, more than 80% of tropical forests are disturbed. However, a lot of interrogations remain around the ability of vegetation attributes in tropical forests to recover ... -
A comparative growth analysis study of four cacao varieties
(Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA), 1972-07-01)Un análisis del crecimiento comparativo se llevó a cabo con cuatro variedades de cacao cultivadas en condiciones de almácigo durante un período de 26 semanas desde la edad del sembrío, cosechando plántulas a intervalos de ... -
A Comparative Study of Deep Learning Frameworks Applied to Coffee Plant Detection from Close-Range UAS-RGB Imagery in Costa Rica
(MDPI, 2024-11-10)Introducing artificial intelligence techniques in agriculture offers new opportunities for improving crop management, such as in coffee plantations, which constitute a complex agroforestry environment. This paper presents ... -
A comparison of direct seedling with transplanting of cocoa
(Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA), 1972-07-01)Las plantas de cacao Amelonado de semillas sembradas directamente en el campo y de uno a dos años de edad fueron mucho más grandes que las plántulas de la misma edad sembradas en almácigo y transplantadas a los cinco meses. ... -
A comparison of forest and savanna soils in Northeastern Nicaragua
(Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA), 1973-04-01)Seasonal broadleaf forest and pine savanna occur in the lower northeastern part of Nicaragua. The savanna chea is almost entirely limited to sedimentary deposits in the piedmont plain, and the forest is almost entirely ... -
A Contingent Valuation Approach to Estimating Regulatory Costs: Mexico’s Day without Driving Program
(Resources for the Future, Washington, D.C. (Estados Unidos), 2015-05)Little is known about the cost of environmental regulations such as residential zoning restrictions and recycling mandates that target households instead of firms, partly because of significant methodological and data ... -
A cost-benefit analysis for the establishment of mixed pastures with and without two species of legume trees, in the humid tropical of Costa Rica
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica). Proyecto CATIE/AUW/MG Agricultural University Wageningen, Wageningen (Países Bajos) Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadería, San José (Costa Rica), 1996)Animal production from native pastures is low in the Atlantic Zone of Costa Rica. Research has shown that meat production can be increased up to six times, by replacing the native grass vegetation with a mixture of the ... -
A design for a low cost multiple use seed drying unit
(Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA), 1975-10-01)Se describe el diseño y la operación de una secadora de usos múltiples La unidad sirve principal-mente para secar las semillas de Cupressus, Alnus y Pinus, pero también se mencionan varias otros usos, como para secar ... -
A detailed soil survey of the rio Jimenez area in the Atlantic Zone of Costa Rica
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica). Atlantic Zone Programme Agricultural University Wageningen, Wageningen (Países Bajos). Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadería, San José (Costa Rica), 1987) -
A dinamica de expansao da procura de amendoas de cacau nos principais países consumidores
(IICA, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 1970)El patrón de expresión del comportamiento a corto y largo plazo de los mercados cacaoteros es uno de los elementos claves del crecimiento del sector cacaotero. El comportamiento a corto plazo está influenciado esencialmente ... -
A farm typology for the Atlantic Zone
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica). Atlantic Zone Programme Agricultural University Wageningen, Wageningen (Países Bajos) Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadería, San José (Costa Rica), 1997)In land use analysis it is often necessary to generalize individual farMON into a number of farm types. In this research the farm typology is based on the physical production possibilities presented by farm size and soil ... -
A farming system research approach for small farms of Central America.
(Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza, Turrialba (Costa Rica)., 1978) -
A financial analysis of a small scale Gmelina arborea Roxb. improvement programme in Costa Rica
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 1995)El documento presenta los resultados de un análisis financiero de un programa de mejoramiento genético de escala pequeña de Gmelina arborea en Hojancha, provincia de Guanacaste, Costa Rica. El programa consistió en el ... -
A framework for selecting and designing policies to reduce marine plastic pollution in developing countries
(2020)The polluting of marine ecosystems with plastics is both a global and a local problem with potentially severe consequences for wildlife, economic activity, and human health. It is a problem that originates in countries ...
