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The “Pesticide Chip”: Chemical Legacies and Agrarian Futures in Costa Rica

Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 2, March 2026.
Abstract For decades, agro‐industrial capital has adopted cascading chemical and biotechnical interventions, or fixes, to secure accumulation through the cultivation of monocrops. We develop a framework that centres on how monocrop‐induced susceptibility to pests and pathogens—and the patchwork of fixes to address these—produces uneven chemical ...
Soledad Castro‐Vargas, Marion Werner
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Trees Inside and Outside of Forests in Guanacaste, Costa Rica: Comparisons Among Conservation Areas, Fencerows, and Urban Parks

Biotropica, Volume 58, Issue 2, March 2026.
We compared the abundance and characteristics of trees in replicated plots across a rural to urban gradient in Guanacaste, Costa Rica. Trees in urban parks, fencerows, and national parks provide complementary benefits and have distinct compositions.
Jennifer S. Powers, Finnegan Powers‐Tiffin, Pooja Choksi, Forrest Fleischman, German Vargas G., Justin M. Becknell, Catherine Hulshof, Michael J. O'Brien, Daniel Pérez Aviles, Damaris Pereira Arias, Naomi B. Schwartz, Chris Smith‐Martin, David Medvigy   +12 more
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The Long and Winding Road: Policy Frictions and the Governance of Ride‐Hailing Platforms in Latin America

Latin American Policy, Volume 17, Issue 1, March 2026.
ABSTRACT The rise of ride‐hailing platforms has profoundly transformed urban mobility in Latin America over the past decade. Transportation Network Companies such as Uber, DiDi, Cabify, InDrive, and others operating in the region have affected transportation patterns and intensified debates around labor relations, algorithmic management, regulatory ...
Ronald Sáenz‐Leandro
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Consumer Preferences for Gene‐Edited Foods: A Review of the Literature and Discussion of Industry and Policy Implications

Journal of Agricultural Economics, Volume 77, Issue 1, Page 12-24, February 2026.
ABSTRACT Gene editing (GE), a revolutionary genetic engineering technology that makes targeted modifications to plant and animal genomes, offers the potential to address key challenges in food security, nutrition, safety, health, agricultural productivity, and sustainability, yet consumer demand for GE foods remains uncertain and complex.
Jia Han, Daniele Asioli, Giacomo Zanello, Vincenzina Caputo   +3 more
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Being Political Protagonists: Activist Trajectories and Gender Awareness of Female Chileans Exiled in Costa Rica

Bulletin of Latin American Research, Volume 45, Issue 1, January 2026.
Abstract This article reconstructs the political trajectories of Chilean exiled women settling in Costa Rica. It analyses the manifestations and transmutations of their political praxis before, during and after the period of ostracism, based on life stories reconstructed through semi‐structured interviews with several women who began militancy before ...
Marcela Ramírez‐Hernández
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Mapping British Latinx Writing

Bulletin of Latin American Research, Volume 45, Issue 1, January 2026.
There are an estimated quarter of a million Latin Americans living in the UK, yet they remain outside the British national imaginary. This invisibility has historically extended to the literary scene and publishing industry, with only very few British‐based Latin American and Latinx writers gaining any exposure.
Karina Lickorish Quinn
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Fine‐Scale Bioregionalization in a Complex Island System: A Freshwater Perspective From the Greater Antilles

Journal of Biogeography, Volume 53, Issue 1, January 2026.
ABSTRACT Aim The isolated nature of islands makes them particularly vulnerable to climate change. The freshwater fishes of the Greater Antilles remain understudied and are further threatened by habitat fragmentation and the introduction of exotic invasive species.
Sheila Rodríguez‐Machado, Diego J. Elías, Patricia Torres‐Pineda, Daniel Fromm, Prosanta Chakrabarty   +4 more
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Unraveling complexity in climate change effects on beneficial plant–microbe interactions: mechanisms, resilience, and future directions

New Phytologist, Volume 249, Issue 1, Page 93-113, January 2026.
Summary Plant microbiomes have the potential to mitigate the impacts of climate change, yet both the complexity of climate change and the complexity of plant–microbe interactions make applications and future predictions challenging. Here, we embrace this complexity, reviewing how different aspects of climate change influence beneficial plant–microbe ...
Michelle E. Afkhami, Aimée T. Classen, Collin G. Dice, Damian J. Hernandez, Vicki W. Li, Amanda H. Rawstern, Jennifer A. Rudgers, John R. Stinchcombe, Kerri M. Crawford   +8 more
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Idioms with Clitic Pronouns without a Nominal Referent: The Case of Costa Rican Spanish, a Syntactic and Lexicographic Survey

Филолог – часопис за језик књижевност и културу, 2019
In this article, we present a description of verbal phraseological units with clitics without an expressed nominal reference. After detailing the morphosyntax of the clitics in some of the main phraseological units, extracted from several dictionaries of Costa Rican Spanish, we detailed the treatment that these units have received in the works ...
Sergio Cordero Monge, Jorge Antonio Leoni de León   +1 more
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Diagnosis of Weissellosis in Cultured Rainbow Trout in Costa Rica Further Evidence Emergence of Weissella tructae as Important Pathogen of Salmonids in Latin America

Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, Volume 2026, Issue 1, 2026.
Weissellosis, caused by the Gram‐positive (GP) lactic acid bacterium Weissella tructae, is an emerging disease of farmed rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) reported in Asia, South and North America. In this study, W. tructae was isolated from diseased cultured trout in Costa Rica on four facilities with mortalities seen predominantly in sub‐adult (100–
Esteban Soto, Carolina Elizondo, Zeinab Yazdi, Alvin Camus, Kim Li Jacobsen, Jefferson Yunis-Aguinaga, Paola Barato, Mónica Damme, Dennis Fuentes, Fernando Aguilar, Eunice Víquez-Ruiz, Francine Pereira, Marco Medina-Morillo, Gustavo Rojas, Elías Barquero-Calvo, Luke R. Iwanowicz, Timothy J. Welch, Anusak Kerdsin   +17 more
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