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Emergence, spread, and impact of high-pathogenicity avian influenza H5 in wild birds and mammals of South America and Antarctica. [PDF]
Abstract The currently circulating high‐pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) virus of the subtype H5 causes variable illness and death in wild and domestic birds and mammals, as well as in humans. This virus evolved from the Goose/Guangdong lineage of the HPAI H5 virus, which emerged in commercial poultry in China in 1996, spilled over into wild birds,
Kuiken T +9 more
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The Making of the Right to Food: Tracing Food Policy Conflict and Negotiated Outcomes in Colombia
ABSTRACT The 2016 Peace Agreement between the Colombian Government and the FARC guerrilla group marked a historic step toward ending more than five decades of armed conflict. It also reshaped national food policy with lasting implications. During the negotiations, deep ideological divisions emerged between food sovereignty and food security, and these ...
Felipe Roa‐Clavijo
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Anastrepha grandis: Distribution, Host Plants, and Management—A Review
This graphic summary illustrates the databases and languages used in the bibliographic search for the review of the geographic distribution of Anastrepha grandis (Diptera: Tephritidae) in the Americas and different regions of Brazil, the main host plants of the Cucurbitaceae family, the management strategies used, and the main challenges related to the
Liz Maria Matilde Duarte +2 more
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This article advances academic and policy debates on peri-urban agriculture (PUA) by examining the phenomenon in the city of Sogamoso, Colombia. Planners, developers, and local authorities in Sogamoso have explicitly framed PUA as a barrier to development: a backwards, localized, low-tech and economically poorly performing activity that needs to make ...
Giuseppe Feola +3 more
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ABSTRACT Biofloc technology (BFT) offers a sustainable aquaculture strategy; however, the value of its byproduct, biofloc meal (BFM), as a feed ingredient requires validation for key species. This study evaluated the use of BFM from a tilapia–molasses system as a feed ingredient for white cachama (Piaractus orinoquensis) juveniles.
Natalia Álvarez‐Perdomo +4 more
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Raíz de la montaña, agricultura familiar en Colombia
El mundo rural y agrario de Colombia está atravesado por realidades de pobreza, violencia y desigualdad social. En medio de esta situación los agricultores familiares siguen trabajando para abastecer a las regiones y a las ciudades; su producción representa el 80 % de los alimentos que se consumen en el país.
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Una agricultura familiar consolidada dispone de recursos agropecuarios, permite generar excedentes y está integrada a las cadenas productivas. El objetivo de la investigación fue caracterizar este modelo de agricultura en el municipio de Fusagasugá con la producción de aguacate Hass, a partir de la identificación de factores socioeconómicos y prácticas
María Alejandra Cárdenas Cárdenas +2 more
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ABSTRACT We studied the oral stories 226 U.S. Latine caregivers (most Mexican‐born, earning under $50,000 annually) shared with their children (Mage = 51.81 months) when prompted to tell a science‐ or nature‐related story. Inductive qualitative coding and analyses revealed personal experience stories—reminiscing, caregiver memories, and fictionalized ...
Andrea C. Bühler‐Wassmann +5 more
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I'll Be Dammed: Efficiency and Cost‐Analysis of a Rehabilitated Prehispanic Dam in the Andes
ABSTRACT Within archaeology there is a growing shift away from the purely aesthetic towards making the past relevant to present and future needs and demands. The Past Water Futures project charts the impact of ancient dam rehabilitation on climate change‐induced water scarcity in the North Central Andes.
Kevin Lane +5 more
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Enforcing environmental law in the Amazon
Abstract This article identifies the underlying obstacles to enforcement of laws against environmental crimes such as illegal logging, mining and ranching. With four departments (provinces) from Colombia as case studies, it assesses enforcement of the country's main environmental law, Law 2111, which is one of Latin America's strongest. The article has
Mark Ungar, Juan Corredor‐Garcia
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