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Latin American and Caribbean Forests in the 2020s: Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities
(Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo, San José (Costa Rica), 2020-05)
Forests are among Latin America and the Caribbean’s (LAC’s) crown jewels. The region boasts roughly a third of the world’s forests, half of its tropical forests, and a quarter of its mangroves (Blackman et al. 2014). This ...
Introduction: Ten Years of Forests, Trees and Agroforestry Research in Partnership for Sustainable Development. FTA Highlights of a decade 2011-2021
(Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research, Bogor Barat (Indonesia) (CGIAR), 2022-01)
This is an introduction to the FTA Highlights of a Decade series, which showcases the main findings, results and achievements of the CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA) from 2011 to 2021. FTA, ...
Cocoa roadmap summary. The road to sustainable cocoa growing [2022-2032]
(Centro de Cooperación Internacional en Investigación Agrícola para el Desarrollo (CIRAD), 2022)
The coming years will be crucial for the cocoa value chain. The main issue is not just whether we will still be able to eat chocolate,
but how we can support a sector on which between 40 and 50 million people depend ...
Agroforestry: A primer. Design and management principles for people and the environment
(Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF), 2022)
Is a guide to agroforestry principles and concepts, and how to use them effectively. It develop ‘how-to’ manuals and guides those about agroforestry, forestry, horticulture and social sciences. It support to realize ...
Biodiversity and the livestock sector - Guidelines for quantitative assessment
(2020)
The Technical Advisory Group (TAG) on biodiversity, hereafter called Biodiversity TAG, is composed of 25 international experts in ecology, biodiversity indicators, agronomy, life cycle assessment, livestock production ...
Jamaica’s Climate Change Research Agenda
(Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE), 2022)
With the support of the Climate Technology Centre and Network (CTCN), the first phase of defining a road map for targeted research in Jamaica began in September 2020. During the development process, an effort was made to ...
Trees on Farms to Improve Livelihoods and the Environment
(Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research, Bogor Barat (Indonesia) (CGIAR), 2021)
This publication shows how the advances of the joint work of FTA and the Trees on Farms for Biodiversity project in Nicaragua and Honduras were used to: 1) increase the visibility of trees on living fences of cattle ranches ...
Biomass, Bioenergy and Biomaterials. FTA Highlights of a Decade 2011–2021
(Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research, Bogor Barat (Indonesia) (CGIAR), 2021)
The demand for woody biomass for energy and biomaterials is increasing rapidly in line with the global population rise and changing consumption patterns for sustainable resources. Central to meeting this demand is the ...
ShadeMotion: the analysis of tree shade patterns tutorial
(Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE), 2021-03)
ShadeMotion 5.1.41 is a software application that calculates the number of hours of shade accumulated on each point (grid cell) on a plot due to the presence of trees, in any number, sizes and crown shapes and in any ...