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There is pressure to reduce the impact that livestock production systems have on the environment, accompanied by an increasing global demand for meat. However, the sustainability of these production systems in LAC is fragile due to a low uptake of technological innovations for identifying opportunities to increase production sustainably. Currently, there are limitations in evaluating key parameter...

Pastoral livestock production contributes 46% of GDP and is key to LAC's food and social security. Currently, pastoral bovine production systems face the challenge of increasing their profitability by reducing their environmental impact, since high costs and a growing concern about their contribution to global warming threaten their development. Knowing the quantity and quality of available biomas...

"Carbon sequestration" is defined as the removal of CO2 from the atmosphere and its storage in ecological sinks, such as soil organic matter. In this case, carbon sequestration will be quantified as changes in the soil organic carbon (SOC) pool. These changes can occur in response to changes in land management, such as increased use of fertilization, irrigation, or in response to changes in land u...

Since the mid-1950s, studies have been carried out to measure the impact of agricultural research and innovation, particularly the economic impact of investment. In this sense, agriculture is the economic activity that concentrates a large part of the economic impact analysis of R&D investment. It is important to consider that, in addition to the inherent uncertainty involved in developing tec...

This project aimed to improve methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions quantification techniques. Furthermore, it intended to generate strategies to help mitigate these emissions in dual-purpose livestock in the Andean Region. This project was structured in five components. The first one consisted of biophysical and socioeconomic characterization of dairy production sites. In a second one, ...

Farms with lower intensification only have grazing systems and generate more CH4 emissions than higher intensified farms. In contrast, farms with greater intensification systems have feeding strategies such as supplementing lactating cows with commercial concentrates, minerals, and silages. Furthermore, they tend to implement more management strategies such as pasture management plans, soil analys...

Global warming caused by greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) is a major environmental concern. Countries that have ratified the Kyoto Protocol are required to submit periodic reports to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) about their GHG emissions and climate change adaptation and mitigation programs. The countries involved in the project carry out their emission inventories based on e...

The technological innovations project for the management and improvement of the quality and health of banana soils in Latin America and the Caribbean, financed by FONTAGRO, was implemented in four partner countries of the Fund: Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Panama and Costa Rica. The main objective of the project was to improve the productivity of banana plantations in Latin America and the Carib...

The Project generated methods and tools to establish an information and monitoring system based on historical records, satellite images and simulation models, all integrated into a GIS for the evaluation of risks in agricultural production associated with climatic variability and the technological level of Paraguay and Uruguay. In Uruguay, a study area was defined to conduct the following activit...

El cultivo de la palma de aceite es uno de los de mayor potencial económico en América Latina y varios países intentan incrementar su participación en el mercado mundial. Una de las estrategias es desarrollar tecnologías que reduzcan el efecto de plagas y enfermedades en particular la pudrición de cogollo.  Aunque el objetivo del proyecto fue la búsqueda de un marcador molecular asociado a...