• Challenges and initiatives in reducing food losses and waste: Latin America and the Caribbean 

      Brenes Peralta, Laura; Jiménez Morales, María Fernanda; Murillo Freire, Junior; Belik, Walter; Basso, Natalia; Polenta, Gustavo Alberto; Giraldo, Catalina; Granados, Sara (2020-03)
      The Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) Region comprises 42 countries, from Mexico to the southernmost point of the continent, including the territories in the Caribbean Sea (PNUD, 2019). It is a heterogeneous region in ...
    • Control biológico de enfermedades de plantas en América Latina y el Caribe 

      Bettiol, Wagner; Rivera, Marta Carolina; Mondino, Pedro; Montealegre, Jaime R.; Colmenarez, Yelitza C. (Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de la República, 2014)
      Desde el punto de vista agronómico, existen desafíos que aún necesitan ser enfrentados. Un reto importante para los investigadores y la industria en el área de bioproductos es el desarrollo de nuevos agentes de control ...
    • Improving the accuracy of beef cattle methane inventories in Latin America and Caribbean countries 

      Congio, Guilhermo F.S.; Bannink, André; Mayorga, Olga L.; Rodrigues, João P. P.; Bougouin, Adeline; Kebreab, Ermias; Carvalho, Paulo C.F.; Berchielli, Telma T.; Mercadante, Maria E.Z.; Valadares-Filho, Sebastião C.; Borges, Ana L. C.C.; Berndt, Alexandre; Rodrigues, Paulo H.M.; Ku-Vera, Juan C.; Molina-Botero, Isabel C.; Arango, Jacobo; Reis, Ricardo A.; Posada-Ochoa, Sandra L.; Tomich, Thierry R.; Castelán-Ortega, Octavio A.; Marcondes, Marcos I.; Gómez, Carlos; Ribeiro-Filho, Henrique M.N.; Gere, Jose Ignacio; Ariza-Nieto, Claudia; Giraldo, Luis A.; Gonda, Horacio; Ceron Cucchi, Maria Esperanza; Hernandez, Olegario; Ricci, Patricia; Hristov, Alexander N. (Elsevier, 2023-01)
      On-farm methane (CH4) emissions need to be estimated accurately so that the mitigation effect of recommended practices can be accounted for. In the present study prediction equations for enteric CH4 have been developed in ...
    • Mutation Breeding for Sustainable Food Production in Latin America and the Caribbean Under Climate Change 

      González Cepero, María Caridad; Gómez Pando, Luz; De Andrade, Alexander; Arguello Delgado, Juan Felix; Nakayama Nakashima, Héctor; Landau, Alejandra Mabel; Prina, Alberto Raul; Rodríguez García, Mayra; Suchini Farfan, Aura; de la Cruz Torres, Eulogio (Springer Nature, 2023)
      The region of Latin America and the Caribbean is characterized by the great diversity of crops and environmental conditions where the crops coexist under the effects of different abiotic and biotic stresses, which impact ...
    • Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP) molecular diversity in cattle, sheep, and goats from Latin America and the Caribbean: a systematic review 

      Correa-Valencia, Nathalia M.; Moyano, Roberto Damian; Hernández-Agudelo, Miguel; Fernández-Silva, Jorge A. (Springer, 2021-09)
      This study aimed to systematically collect and appraise the scientific evidence to answer the research question: What MAP genotypes have been isolated from cattle, sheep, and goats in Latin America and the Caribbean? An ...