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Strengthening Water Resources Management of Banana Communities: Greater Resilience to Climate Variability.
Agriculture uses about 70% of available water, which can generate conflicts with other users if availability is limited and seasonal. The consortium formed by UNAN-León Nicaragua, IDIAF of the Dominican Republic, banana and coffee producers, Bioversity International, the CGIAR Humidtropics Program and the French consultancy Lisode (Lien Social et Décision), convened farmers and other actors into...
Learn moreVariability and Climate Change in the Expansion of the Agricultural Frontier in the Southern Cone: Technological and Policy Strategies to Reduce Vulnerabilities
The Southern Cone of Latin America is one of the main food-producing regions of the world. Agricultural expansion in the last 50 years has been very consistent and significant, having increased the cultivation area of rain-fed grains by 65 million hectares, yields at a rate of 3.1% per year and production by 275 million tons. In general, agriculture expands on soils with less agricultural aptitude...
Learn moreCompetitive areas of sustainable corn production in Central America
This study questions the assumption that corn production is not a potentially competitive activity in Central America for which the fundamental difference between white and yellow corn is recognized. As a background, the state of Central American agriculture was examined, after approximately 15 years of implementation of the modernization process and its expected contribution to rural poverty redu...
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