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Agroforestry systems provide firewood for livelihood improvement in Guatemala
(CIRAD, Montpellier (France), 2019)
Given the context of climate change and
poverty, rural populations are increasingly
faced with the challenges of appropriate
resource management, adequate
food production and improving their
quality of life. Guatemala ...
Successional cocoa agroforests of the Amazon-Orinoco-Guiana shield
(2013)
Cocoa was used as a fruit in its native range. Cocoa fruits were harvested from “wild”
cocoa stands embedded into the forests growing on the high terraces of the Amazon and Orinoco river systems and in the Guiana shield. ...
The impacts of a capacity-building workshop in a randomized adaptation project
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2019)
Encouraging adaptation to climate change is fundamentally
about encouraging changes in human behaviour. To promote
these changes, governments, non-profits and multilateral
institutions have invested in a range of ...
Payment for Ecosystem Services: The roles of positive incentives and information sharing in stimulating adoption of silvopastoral conservation practices
(2013-06-14)
Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) applied to agricultural systems, such as tropical rangelands, seeks to provide multiple services while sustaining food production. However, there is considerable debate regarding the ...
Genetic diversity and spatial structure in a new distinct Theobroma cacao L. population in Bolivia
(2015)
Cacao (Theobroma cacao L.) is an important economic crop in the Bolivian Amazon.
Bolivian farmers both cultivate cacao, and extract fruits from wild stands in the Beni River region and in valleys of the Andes foothills. ...
¿Qué aporta el conocimiento local para re-direccionar la investigación sobre el efecto de las raíces en reducción de erosión, secuestro de carbono y redistribución de agua en el suelo? : estudio de caso
(2014)
Incluir la lógica de los productores en la investigación y transferencia de conocimientos es crucial para la adopción de buenas prácticas de manejo del agroecosistema. Para conocer la percepción de los productores sobre ...
Drivers of tropical rainforest composition and alpha diversity patterns over a 2,520 m altitudinal gradient
(John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2019)
Human pressure on water quality and water yield in the upper Grijalva river basin in the Mexico-Guatemala border
(ELSEVIER, 2016)
Forest ecosystems are major providers of high quality water and contribute to maintain a better distribution of base flows during the year. However, these environmental services have been adversely affected by human pressure ...
Population genomic analyses of the chocolate tree, Theobroma cacao L., provide insights into its domestication process
(2018)
Domestication has had a strong impact on the development of modern societies. We
sequenced 200 genomes of the chocolate plant Theobroma cacao L. to show for the first time
to our knowledge that a single population, the ...
The coffee rust crises in Colombia and Central America (2008-2013): impacts, plausible causes and proposed solutions
(2015)
Coffee rust is a leaf disease caused by the fungus,
Hemileia vastatrix. Coffee rust epidemics, with intensities
higher than previously observed, have affected a number of
countries including: Colombia, from 2008 to 2011; ...