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The role of strong-tie social networks in mediating food security of fish resources by a traditional riverine community in the Brazilian Amazon

Ecology and Society, 2015
Social networks are a significant way through which rural communities that manage resources under common property regimes obtain food resources. Previous research on food security and social network analysis has mostly focused on egocentric network data ...
Frédéric Mertens, Myriam Fillion, Johanne Saint-Charles, Pierre Mongeau, Renata Távora, Carlos José Sousa Passos, Donna Mergler   +6 more
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Does Latin America lag behind due to shaper recessions and/or slower recoveries? [PDF]

Since the 1950’s Latin America and the Caribbean have lost relative income share on a consistent basis in relation to the World and the developed countries on average.
Perez Caldentey, Esteban, Pineda, Ramon
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Lessons from Innovation: Skills Standards and Certification [PDF]

Working with public, private, and nonprofit sector partners, MIF has invested in the development of skills standards and certification systems with fifteen projects in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
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Science for Place-based Socioecological Management: Lessons from the Maya Forest (Chiapas and Petén)

Ecology and Society, 2006
The role humans should play in conservation is a pervasive issue of debate in environmental thinking. Two long-established poles of this debate can be identified on a preservation-sustainable use continuum. At one extreme are use bans and natural science-
David Manuel-Navarrete, Scott Slocombe, Bruce Mitchell   +2 more
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Global Integration and Growth in Honduras and Nicaragua [PDF]

Globalization, Latin America and the Caribbean, Sustainable ...
Agosin, Manuel R.
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Organic Farming in Latin America and the Caribbean [PDF]

, 2009
In Latin America, 220’000 producers managed 6.4 million hectares of agricultural land organically in 2007. This constitutes 20 percent of the world’s organic land.
Garibay, Salvador V., Ugas, Roberto
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Relations Between Europe and Latin America: In Search of New Agendas and Formats [PDF]

, 2007
The countries of Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, seen traditionally as ‘natural partners’ and linked by a ‘strategic partnership’, have developed a new network of contacts and exchanges in tandem with the EU’s new role as a global player.
Maihold, Günther
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Violence against children in Latin America and Caribbean countries: a comprehensive review of national health sector efforts in prevention and response

BMC Public Health, 2016
Background Violence against children (VAC) remains a global problem. The health sector has an opportunity and responsibility to be part of the multi-sector collaboration to prevent and respond to VAC.
Andrea L. Wirtz, Carmen Alvarez, Alessandra C. Guedes, Luisa Brumana, Cecilie Modvar, Nancy Glass   +5 more
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Modern energy consumption and economic modernisation in Latin America and the Caribbean between 1890 and 1925 [PDF]

In the absence of comparable macroeconomic indicators for most of the Latin American economies before the 1930s, the apparent consumption of energy is used in this paper as a proxy of the degree of modernisation of Latin America and the Caribbean.
Albert Carreras, César Yáñez, M. del Mar Rubio Varas, Mauricio Folchi   +3 more
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People's Republic of China and Latin America and the Caribbean: ushering in a new era in the economic and trade relationship [PDF]

, 2011
Spanish and chinese versions available at the LibraryForeword by Alicia BárcenaThis document focuses on recent developments in trade between China and the Latin American and Caribbean region with respect to countries, sectors and goods, as well as ...

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