Tropical forage grasses and legumes as key components of sustainable crop-livestock systems in Latin America and the Caribbean have major implications for improving food security, alleviating poverty, restoring degraded lands and mitigating climate change. Climate-smart tropical forage crops can ...
Rao, Idupulapati M.
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Peters, Michael
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Hoek, Rein van der
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Castro, A.
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Subbaraoa, Guntur V.
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Cadisch, Georg
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Rincón, A.
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[Tropical forage-based systems for climate-smart livestock production in Latin America]
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Tropical forage-based systems for climate-smart livestock production in Latin America
Multipurpose legumes provide a wide range of benefits to smallholder production systems in the tropics. The degree of system improvement after legume introduction depends largely on legume biomass production, which in turn depends on the legumes’ adaptation to environmental conditions. For Canava...
Douxchamps, Sabine
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Frossard, Emmanuel
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Uehlinger, N.
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Rao, Idupulapati M.
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Hoek, Rein van der
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Mena Urbina, Martin A.
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Schmidt, A
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Oberson, Astrid
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[Identifying factors limiting legume biomass production in a heterogeneous on-farm environment]
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Identifying factors limiting legume biomass production in a heterogeneous on-farm environment
Rousseau, Laurent
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Fonte, Steven J.
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Tellez, O.
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Hoek, Rein van der
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Lavelle, Patrick M.
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[Soil macrofauna as indicators of soil quality and land use impacts in smallholder agroecosystems of western Nicaragua]
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Soil macrofauna as indicators of soil quality and land use impacts in smallholder agroecosystems of western Nicaragua
An inter-institutional and multi-disciplinary project to identify Brachiaria genotypes, which combine waterlogging tolerance with high forage yield and quality, for use in agricultural land in Latin America with poor drainage, is underway. The aim is to improve meat and milk production and mitiga...
Cardoso Arango, Juan Andrés
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Jiménez, J.
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Rincón, J.
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Guevara, Edward D.
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Hoek, Rein van der
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Jarvis, Andy
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Peters, Michael
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Miles, John W.
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Ayarza, Miguel Angel
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Cajas, S.
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Rincón, A.
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Mateus, H.
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Quiceno, J.
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Barragán, W.
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Lascano, Carlos E.
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Argel M., Pedro J.
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Mena Urbina, Martin A.
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Hertentains, L.
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Rao, Idupulapati M.
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[Advances in improving tolerance to waterlogging in Brachiaria grasses]
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Advances in improving tolerance to waterlogging in Brachiaria grasses
Livestock systems in the tropics can contribute to mitigate climate change by reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and increasing carbon accumulation. We quantified C stocks and GHG emissions of 30 dual-purpose cattle farms in Nicaragua using farm inventories and lifecycle analysis. Trees in s...
Gaitán, Lucía
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Läderach, Peter
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Graefe, Sophie
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Rao, Idupulapati M.
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Hoek, Rein van der
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[Climate-smart livestock systems: an assessment of carbon stocks and GHG emissions in Nicaragua]
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Climate-smart livestock systems: an assessment of carbon stocks and GHG emissions in Nicaragua