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Past, present and future of local crop evolution

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Promoting agrobiodiversity is a promising strategy for mitigating the negative effects of climate change on global food security. We highlight the central role evolutionary processes play in harnessing the potential of local crops by integrating genomics, archaeology, ethnobotany and traditional ecological knowledge (TEK).
Nataly Allasi Canales, Philippa Ryan, Amy Jackson, Hong Phuong Le, James Borrell, Aaron Davis, Rafal M. Gutaker   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Intellectual property and economic integration in the Andean Community: Barriers to an Andean Patent

Artefactos, 2015
This paper presents the first results of research aimed at evaluating the model industrial property protection in the Andean Community of Nations. The common system of industrial property and its implementation in each of the member countries of the ...
Carlos LUGO SILVA
doaj  

Evolución del Comercio Intraindustrial entre las regiones colombianas y la Comunidad Andina 1990-2004: un análisis comparativo

Lecturas de Economía, 2009
Este artículo busca medir y comparar los niveles de Comercio Intraindustrial (CII) de Colombia y sus principales regiones económicas con la Comunidad Andina de Naciones (CAN).
Ana Isabel Moreno, Héctor Mauricio Posada   +1 more
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Social Public Spending in the Countries That Comprise the Andean Community of Nations (CAN)

, 2016
The Andean Community of Nations (CAN) is a South American economic and trade block that includes four countries: Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. At the beginning of the 1990s, these countries made a bet for a higher economic growth through international trade.
Aponte Jaramillo, Elizabeth, Castro Urbano, Emma Beatriz, Carrillo Rodríguez, Lilian Andrea   +2 more
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Ethnobotanical and genetic assessments of Central American avocado landraces reveal novel sources of biodiversity and ancient migration patterns

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Avocados are a multibillion‐dollar global commodity, but their growing export market pressures local farmers to abandon local fruit tree diversity in favor of commercial cultivar production. Interviews with rural avocado farmers and households from the Southern Mexican Highlands, Pacific Coastal Honduras, and Western Nicaragua, as well as the genetic ...
Kevin Wann, Heather B. Thakar, Courtney A. Hofman, Hector Neff, Logan Kistler   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Governance and subjective well-being in the Countries of the Andean Community (CAN)

Heritage and Sustainable Development
This study presents an analysis of the relationship between governance and subjective well-being in the Andean Community of Nations. The analyzed data is sourced from the World Values Survey of Wave 7. A quantitative approach was employed to investigate
Aracelly Fernanda Núñez-Naranjo, Ximena Morales-Urrutia, Ariel Martínez-Jumbo   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Institutional Framework: Intellectual Property and the Impact on Import and Export Operations in Ecuador

Ius Humani, 2019
This paper introduces a review based on the economic analysis of the law. In that sense, it analyzes the application of border measures in terms of “the right and its consequences”. This mechanism of precaution applied by the customs in the air, maritime
Paulina Valle Segura, Rubén Méndez Reátegui   +1 more
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How many bromeliads are there? History and future perspectives of species scientific discovery in the pineapple family

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
It remains unclear how many plant species are not yet recorded by science. We illustrated the process by which species of the pineapple family in tropical America have been newly described to science to date, and we estimated how many species may still await scientific discovery in this group.
Georg Zizka, Maria‐Judith Carmona‐Higuita, Eric Gouda, Elton M. C. Leme, Alexander Zizka   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Convergence and Transmedia of the Main Newspapers of The Andean Community of Nations

Revista de Gestão Social e Ambiental
Objective: To study digital convergence and transmediality in the main newspapers of the Andean Community of Nations (CAN).   Theoretical Framework: The analysis of convergence is framed from Salaverría's postulations, and transmediality from Jenkins' theory of the seven principles.   Method: The methodology used is mixed.
Franklin Gustavo Santín-Picoita, Walter Federico Gadea-Aiello, Eduardo Fabio Henríquez-Mendoza, Ketty Daniela Calva Calvache, Carlos Antonio Granda Cruz   +4 more
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Food plant diversity in a rapidly changing world

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Diversity in food plants is essential to human and planetary health. On farms, in diets, and in many other areas of food systems, this diversity has undergone enormous change globally, including significant decline. We describe major trends in how food plant diversity has been changing, note the responses from conservation communities, highlight gaps ...
Colin K. Khoury, Hannes Dempewolf, Alejandro Argumedo, Stef de Haan, Mauricio Diazgranados, Alex C. McAlvay, Alvaro Toledo, Maarten van Zonneveld, Peter Wenzl   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source