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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 1978Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru, Venezuela, Nicaragua, South America, Central America
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2000Colombia, South America, Central America
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 1984Colombia, South America, Central America
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Library ResourceConference Papers & ReportsDecember, 1991Central America, South America, Caribbean
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2001Central America, South America, Africa, Asia
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 1996Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Honduras, Nicaragua, South America, Central America
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2014Peru, Bolivia, Central America, South America
Austral summer frosts in the Andean highlands are ubiquitous throughout the crop cycle, causing yield losses. In spite of the existing warming trend, climate change models forecast high variability, including freezing temperatures. As the potato center of origin, the region has a rich biodiversity which includes a set of frost resistant genotypes. Four contrasting potato genotypes –representing genetic variability- were considered in the present study: two species of frost resistant native potatoes (the bitter Solanum juzepczukii, var. Luki, and the non-bitter Solanum ajanhuiri, var.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchMarch, 2014Colombia, Central America, South America
Although Climate-Smart Agricultural (CSA) practices are expected to boost adaptive capacity, food security and climate change mitigation in resource poor, smallholder farming systems, the barriers that can restrict its uptake are diverse. This study investigated the barriers hindering CSA practice adoption in the Santander department of Colombia as well as farmer perceptions of practice benefits and disadvantages.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchJuly, 2013Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, India, Niger, Tanzania, Vietnam, Central America, South America, Northern America, Southern Asia, South-Eastern Asia, Western Africa, Africa, Asia, Eastern Asia, Eastern Africa
This paper identifies sixteen cases of large-scale actions in the agriculture and forestry sectors that have adaptation and/or mitigation outcomes, and distils lessons from the cases. The cases cover policy and strategy development (including where climate-smart objectives were not the initial aim), climate risk management through insurance, weather information services and social protection, and agricultural initiatives that have a strong link to climate change adaptation and mitigation.
Key lessons learned include:
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksJune, 2016Central America, South America
Women’s land rights are increasingly advocated as an empowerment tool to spur development outcomes. However, empirical evidence of this relationship is limited. In this study we use data from peasant communities in rural Peru to explore the effect of the intra-household allocation of inherited land on women’s empowerment. Empowerment is modeled as a latent variable measured by different influence indicators using a Generalized Structural Equation approach.
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