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decision support systems; ecosystems; environmental management; environmental policy; food security; indigenous peoples; litigation; Colombia; Latin America
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... In the last years, the interest in ecosystem services (ESs) as a decision-making tool for environmental policy has been growing. The ES paradigm has also impacted the judicial system and in some countries the common law tradition. Experiences and lessons learned from the ES litigation have been already documented. In the initial analysis, this article aims to identify key trends in ESs case law in ...
circular economy; citizen participation; decision making; governance; organic wastes; public sector; sanitation; stakeholders; waste management; Colombia; Latin America
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... Across the globe, there is increasing interest in implementing circular approaches to urban sanitation and waste management to mitigate environmental challenges and promote sustainable business opportunities. In Latin America where 80% of the population live in urban areas, there is limited investigation into the enabling factors and governance barriers that are critical to implementing circular e ...
catenas; combustion; land use; occupations; pollution; systematic review; traffic; Argentina; Brazil; Chile; Colombia; Cuba; Latin America; Mexico
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... Pollution in urban environments has a direct impact on urban topsoils, which act as sinks and sources of trace elements. This article reviewed the contamination by trace elements (As, Cd, Cu, Pb, Cr, Ni and Zn) in studies of 31 cities in Latin America, including the countries of Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Cuba, and Mexico, between 2011 and 2020. The sample collection, analytical tools, re ...
Gabriella Carvalho Mattos Ferreira; Maria Eugênia Andrighetto Canozzi; Vanessa Peripolli; Gabriely de Paula Moura; Javier Sánchez; Carlos Eduardo Nogueira Martins
... Bovine parasitic sadness, comprised of the diseases babesiosis and anaplasmosis, has a large impact on cattle farming in several countries, as it compromises animal productivity. Using systematic review (SR)-meta-analysis (MA) methodology, our objective was to summarize and to investigate study characteristics associated with prevalence of Babesia spp. and Anaplasma marginale infection in Latin Am ...
COVID-19 infection; Papillomaviridae; World Health Organization; case studies; education; immunization; society; stakeholders; vaccines; Bolivia; Caribbean; Colombia; Guyana; Latin America
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... In 2020, the World Health Organization launched the Immunization Agenda 2030: A Global Strategy to Leave No One Behind, which prioritizes high equitable immunization coverage at the national level and in all districts. Achieving high and homogenous immunization coverage, which is all the more important within the current context of the COVID-19 pandemic and vaccine rollout, requires the strengthen ...
Providencia; corals; environment; marine debris; marine protected areas; pollution; streams; tourists; vegetation; Caribbean Sea; Colombia; Latin America
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... The SEAFLOWER Biosphere Reserve (SBR) is the largest Marine Protected Area in the Caribbean Sea and the second largest in Latin America. Marine protected areas are under pressure from various stressors, one of the most important issues being pollution by marine litter, especially plastic. In this study our aim is to establish the distribution pattern and potential sources of solid waste in the dif ...
childhood; cross-sectional studies; mortality; Colombia; Latin America
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... This study investigates the occurrence of childhood cancer between the years 2015 and 2016 in the city of Cali, Colombia, with respect to: a) sociodemographic characteristics, b) type of cancer, c) epidemiological weeks of cancer and d) comparative survival according to health system affiliation by consolidating the records notified to the municipal health secretariat. Statistically significant di ...
Gisele Alexandre; Lylian Rodriguez; Javier Arece; José Delgadillo; Gary Wayne Garcia; Kurt Habermeier; André M. Almeida; Audrey Fanchone; Jean-Luc Gourdine; Harry Archimède
agroecology; animal health; biodiversity; case studies; dairy industry; dietary supplements; energy; farms; livestock; milk production; reproduction; society; Caribbean; Colombia; Haiti; Latin America
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... With global climate changes currently occurring, and particularly given the severe energy and food shortages occurring throughout tropical regions, agroecological (AE) systems are drawing renewed attention as an efficient alternative to intensive models of production, particularly unsuitable in regions of the world such as the Caribbean or Latin America. There is a pressing need to focus on livest ...
acetaminophen; azithromycin; chemical oxygen demand; ciprofloxacin; diclofenac; hospitals; risk; sewage; sulfamethoxazole; wastewater; water; Colombia; Latin America
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... Hospital wastewater (HWW) from three different cities in Colombia was characterized. Wastewater quality indicators and 38 relevant pharmaceuticals were examined. The HWW had pH from 6.82 to 8.06, chemical oxygen demand was between 235.5 and 1203 mg L⁻¹, and conductivity ranged from 276.5 to 717.5 µS cm⁻¹. Additionally, most of the target pharmaceuticals (20 of 38) had 100% occurrence frequency in ...
... Little is known about breakfast habits of the Latin American (LA) population to support nutritional recommendations for a balanced breakfast in this region. To evaluate the nutritional composition of breakfast in the LA population and to propose recommendations for a balanced breakfast. This multicenter cross-sectional study evaluated food and nutrient intake of nationally representative samples o ...
Deborah Salvo; Diana C. Parra; Alejandra Jáuregui; Eugen Reséndiz; Armando Garcia‐Olvera; Daniel Velazquez; Nicolas Aguilar‐Farias; Uriyoán Colón‐Ramos; Adriano A. Hino; Harold W. ( Bill) Kohl III; Michael Pratt; Andrea Ramirez Varela; Manuel Ramirez‐Zea; Juan A. Rivera
... Childhood obesity is a major problem in Latin America and among US Latinos. Effective public health policies require contextually relevant evidence to guide them, which demands sustained research capacity. The objectives of this study are to determine research productivity in Latin America and in the United States focused on Latino populations and examine domains of research capacity (research inf ...
humans; politics; water; water management; Colombia; Latin America
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... This paper answers the question: has the Colombian Congress been effective at addressing relevant water conflicts and making them visible? While courts and social movements have been key for the advancement of social rights in Latin America, the role of legislators remains unclear. We conduct content analysis of all water-related bills, proposed bills, and constitutional amendments filed in Colomb ...
Ana Carolina B. Leme; Gerson Ferrari; Regina M. Fisberg; Irina Kovalskys; Georgina Gómez; Lilia Yadira Cortes; Martha Cecilia Yépez Gárcia; Marianella Herrera-Cuenca; Attilo Rigotti; María Reyna Liria-Domínguez; Mauro Fisberg
alcohol drinking; diet; females; regression analysis; sociodemographic characteristics; transportation; Argentina; Brazil; Chile; Colombia; Costa Rica; Ecuador; Latin America; Peru; Venezuela
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... Poor diet, sedentary behaviors, sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) and alcohol intake seem to co-exist in complex ways that are not well understood. The aim of this study was to provide an understanding of the extent to which unhealthy behaviors cluster in eight Latin America countries. A secondary aim was to identify socio-demographic characteristics associated with these behaviors by country. Data ...
Flávia Terumi Nakashima; Ana Beatriz Monteiro Fonseca; Luiz Fernando de Oliveira Coelho; Alynne da Silva Barbosa; Otilio Machado Pereira Bastos; Claudia Maria Antunes Uchôa
... Cryptosporidiosis is an infection caused by a protozoon that inhabits the gastrointestinal tract. More than forty valid species have been described in the genus Cryptosporidium, infecting a broad range of hosts around the world, some with zoonotic transmission and others with predominant anthroponotic transmission. Prevalence studies conducted in Latin American countries have been specific, withou ...
cross-sectional studies; food quality; health status; healthy eating habits; nutrition surveys; overweight; public health; risk; waist circumference; Colombia
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... Colombia is experiencing a nutrition transition, characterised by nutritionally poor diets and an increased prevalence of non-communicable diseases (NCD). We aimed to investigate the association between diet quality and general health outcomes related to the risk of NCD, in a nationally representative sample of Colombian adolescents and adults. Cross-sectional analysis. The Alternative Healthy-Eat ...
United Nations; business enterprises; climate change; corporations; econometric models; interviews; labor; lifestyle; poverty; sustainable development; Colombia; Latin America
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... The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) agreed upon by the United Nations (UN) in 2015 encompass a set of 17 Goals, aimed at integrating matters of humanity’s most pressing problems. Although the SDGs were initially suggested to be carried out by governments, enterprises are key players for the achievement of these goals through their business activities. Among for-profit firms, Certified B Corpo ...
Proechimys semispinosus; compliance; food security; fruits; humans; mice; nutrition; risk; tropical forests; wild animals; Africa; Asia; Colombia; Latin America
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... Wild foods contribute to the food security of multiple communities in tropical areas of Africa, Asia and Latin America. However, wild foods are not regularly considered in the planning of strategies for food and nutrition security mainly due to the lack of technical and/or scientific knowledge so that they can be considered suitable for human consumption. This paper proposes a multidisciplinary me ...
bottle feeding; breast feeding; evolution; infant formulas; liquids; milk; rural areas; time series analysis; urban areas; Bolivia; Caribbean; Colombia; Dominican Republic; Guatemala; Haiti; Latin America; Peru
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... BACKGROUND: Early introduction of liquid/solid food before 6 months of age is one of the major barriers to exclusive breastfeeding. Our objective was to analyze the evolution of infant feeding practices for infants under 6 months of age in Latin American and Caribbean countries in the decades of 1990, 2000 and 2010. METHOD: Cross-sectional time series study with data from Demographic and Health Su ...
Bothrops; antivenoms; ecoregions; immune response; metalloproteinases; phenotype; proteomics; public health; snake venoms; toxicity; Colombia; Latin America
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... Bothrops asper envenoming is a public health problem in tropical regions of Latin America. Bothrops asper has spread until Gorgona Island in the Pacific Colombian Ocean, but its biochemical venom characterization is poorly known. Thus, to increase knowledge on Bothrops species venoms, we developed for the first time the proteomic analysis using a shotgun approach and performed functional evaluatio ...
María Augusta Chávez‐Larrea; Michell Lorena Medina‐Pozo; Cristina E. Cholota‐Iza; Jimmy R. Jumbo‐Moreira; Claude Saegerman; Freddy Proaño‐Pérez; Jorge Ron‐Román; Armando Reyna‐Bello
... The bovine trypanosomosis is responsible for economic losses from tropical and subtropical areas of Africa and Latin America. This disease is characterized by fever, anaemia, loss of production and even death. Few studies have been carried out in Ecuador regarding Trypanosoma spp. presence but the species has not been determined in cattle and those have only determined the presence of genus, but n ...
Tremarctos ornatus; compliance; decentralization; environmental governance; environmental management; habitats; information exchange; leadership; wildlife; wildlife management; Colombia; Latin America
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... Decentralized environmental governance has become increasingly common across much of Latin America and in developing countries more generally, yet the impacts of decentralization on wildlife conservation remain unclear. Decentralized environmental governance is thought to improve efficiency, local compliance, and democratic potential of natural resource management. However, wildlife conservation, ...
forest restoration; forestry; forests; funding; governance; interviews; issues and policy; landscapes; laws and regulations; nongovernmental organizations; quantitative analysis; questionnaires; social welfare; stakeholders; Brazil; Colombia; Costa Rica; Ecuador; Guatemala; Latin America; Mexico
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... Legal frameworks could play a key role in enabling countries to meet their ambitious forest landscape restoration (FLR) targets. In this paper, we examine the perceptions of different types of stakeholders from 17 Latin American countries on aspects of forestry and environmental legal frameworks that enable or hamper FLR interventions at the national level. We first reviewed general, environmental ...
... The present study is a literature-based analysis investigating occurrence and the possible consequences of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) in marine protected areas (MPAs) of Latin America and Caribbean. The approach using overlapping of georeferenced MPA polygons with data compiled from peer-reviewed literature, published during the last 15 years, showed 341 records of PAH in 9 countries. ...
Maíra Ometto Bezerra; Derek Vollmer; Natalia Acero; Maria Clara Marques; Diego Restrepo; Eddy Mendoza; Bruno Coutinho; Ivo Encomenderos; Lina Zuluaga; Octavio Rodríguez; Kashif Shaad; Sarah Hauck; Ramon González; Francisco Hernandéz; Rodolfo Montelongo; Eliana Torres; Lina Serrano
basins; decision making; environmental management; freshwater; freshwater ecosystems; governance; rivers; stakeholders; sustainable development; water management; Brazil; Colombia; Latin America
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... Water crises in Latin America are more a consequence of poor management than resource scarcity. Addressing water management issues through better coordination, identification of problems and solutions, and agreement on common objectives to operationalize integrated water resources management (IWRM) could greatly improve water governance in the region. Composite indices have great potential to help ...
Mohd Nur Ashraf Mohd Yusoff; Nurin Wahidah Mohd Zulkifli; Nazatul Liana Sukiman; Ong Hwai Chyuan; Masjuki Haji Hassan; Muhammad Harith Hasnul; Muhammad Syahir Amzar Zulkifli; Muhammad Mujtaba Abbas; Muhammad Zulfattah Zakaria
alternative fuels; biodiesel; bioenergy industry; comparative study; energy; issues and policy; markets; palm oils; petroleum; research; sustainable development; transportation; transportation industry; Colombia; Latin America; Malaysia
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... Biodiesel is gaining prominence as a superior alternative source of energy to replace petroleum-based fuel in transportation. As of today, the biodiesel market continuous to rise up as the biofuel has been introduced to more than 60 countries worldwide. The aim of the present review is to highlight on the scenario of the biofuel implementation in transportation sector towards sustainable developme ...
agriculture; bibliometric analysis; databases; food security; hunger; malnutrition; sustainable agriculture; Chile; Colombia; Latin America; Mexico; Peru
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... BACKGROUND: In 2015, The United Nations (UN) established 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. In Latin America, the Pacific Alliance is integrated by Chile, Colombia, Peru, and Mexico, which the scientific activity is focused on the scientific production from research and academic institutions. In this study, the main goal was to analyze the scientific production (2015–2019) in the Pac ...
Chagas disease; Trypanosoma cruzi; early diagnosis; heart failure; Andes region; Colombia; Latin America
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... Chagas disease, Trypanosoma cruzi infection, is an insidious cause of heart failure in Latin America. Early diagnosis and treatment are critical to prevent irreversible myocardial damage that progressively accumulates over decades. Several structural barriers account for the less than 1% of cases in Colombia being treated, including poor physician knowledge, especially considering that some region ...
United States Environmental Protection Agency; activated carbon; coliform bacteria; disinfection; groundwater; industrial wastewater; industry; irrigation; laws and regulations; oils; organic matter; risk; wastewater treatment; water quality; water reuse; Colombia; Latin America
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... This paper assesses a bench-scale carwash wastewater treatment system's removal efficiency based on coagulation-flocculation and a household-type activated carbon filter and water ozonator. For the experiment, the wastewater that went through an oil/water separator (OWS) from a medium-sized carwash facility located in a dense commercial area in Barranquilla, Colombia, was collected. The study eval ...
atomic absorption spectrometry; bioaccumulation; case studies; environmental quality; geochemistry; lead; Colombia; Latin America
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... The use of bryophytes as an indicator of environmental quality has been addressed on numerous occasions and in different places of the world under a variety of conditions. However, in Latin America their use is still limited. In the study described here, the presence and distribution of the bioaccumulation of lead in bryophytes has been evaluated in both contaminated and uncontaminated sites in Vi ...
Coffea canephora; agroecology; agronomy; beverages; chemistry; genetics; geographical distribution; industrialization; markets; phenology; physiology; prices; Africa; Asia; Colombia; Latin America
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... Robusta coffee (C. canephora) covers 36% of world coffee production and has strategic relevance as a beverage that it is produced by thousands of small-scale producers around the world. Although mainly grown in Africa and Asia as opposed to Latin America, this situation is changing. Colombia is recognized as a producer of high-quality Arabica (C. arabica L.) coffee, however we argue that Robusta r ...
... Hunting presents a paradox for biodiversity conservation. It is both a problem and a solution to species declines and poverty. Yet, conservation scientists hold different assumptions about the significance and sustainability of hunting based on the cultures and identities of hunters. In Latin America, conservationists largely sort hunters as either indigenous or campesino. Indigenous hunters are o ...
A. M. Osorio-García; L. Paz; F. Howland; L. A. Ortega; I. Acosta-Alba; L. Arenas; N. Chirinda; D. Martinez-Baron; O. Bonilla Findji; A. M. Loboguerrero; E. Chia; N. Andrieu
biodiversity; case studies; climate change; climate-smart agriculture; farmers; farms; greenhouse gas emissions; income; mineral fertilizers; nongovernmental organizations; stakeholders; Colombia
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... The main purpose of this work was analyzing how an innovation platform can foster and provide a basis for multi-actor collaboration in order to enable climate-smart agriculture (CSA) implementation at the local level. Using a mix of social (interactions between stakeholders, knowledge changes, adoption of practices) and technical indicators (income, fulfillment of caloric requirements of the house ...
Babesia caballi; Babesia canis subsp. vogeli; babesiosis; blood; dogs; microscopy; parasites; veterinary parasitology; Argentina; Brazil; Caribbean; Chile; Colombia; Costa Rica; Haiti; Latin America; Mexico; Nicaragua; Paraguay; Peru; Saint Kitts and Nevis; Trinidad and Tobago; Venezuela
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... Canine babesiosis is a tick-borne disease with worldwide distribution and global significance. Traditionally, canine babesiosis was caused by B. canis (large Babesia) and B. gibsoni (small Babesia) based on cytological examination of stained blood smears. Currently, molecular techniques have demonstrated that several Babesia species infect dogs: B. canis, B. vogeli, and B. rossi (large forms) and ...
agricultural management; carbon footprint; climate change; cost effectiveness; energy content; environmental impact; farms; fertilizers; greenhouse gases; herds; land use; meat; milk; milk production; multivariate analysis; nonrenewable resources; pastures; rumen fermentation; Colombia; Latin America
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... Dual-purpose cattle systems (DPS) include more than 75% of all dairy cows in Latin America and produce 40% of total milk production. Colombia has the fourth largest cattle herd in Latin America, and DPS account for 39% of the cattle population, and 58% of national milk production. Therefore, focusing on reducing the carbon footprint (CF) of DPS can have a huge contribution on mitigating the enviro ...
... Common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) is grown in two growth types, bush and climbing beans. The latter are preferred in several regions in East and Southern African as well as in Latin America (dominant in Rwanda and Colombia), due to higher yields and resilience. Common bean production is reduced by several pests and diseases. Bean common mosaic virus (BCMV), is the most common and destructive poty-v ...
... Although Latin America is one of the regions with the greatest plant diversity on the planet and, its commercial exploitation has not impacted the economic growth of Latin American countries, with the exception of Brazil. The great plant biodiversity of Latin American countries is an opportunity for the development of sustainable and innovative cosmetic ingredients and products. Some studies have ...
Aedes aegypti; Aedes albopictus; Manta; Zika virus; arboviruses; confidence interval; dengue; disease prevention; females; household income; humans; mosquito vectors; socioeconomics; standard deviation; vegetation; Argentina; Colombia; Ecuador; Latin America
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... BACKGROUND: The global impact of Zika virus in Latin America has drawn renewed attention to circulating mosquito-borne viruses in this region, such as dengue and chikungunya. Our objective was to assess socio-ecological factors associated with Aedes mosquito vector density as a measure of arbovirus transmission risk in three cities of potentially recent Zika virus introduction: Ibagué, Colombia; M ...
... We developed a conceptual framework that describes the key role of ecosystem services in urban ecological infrastructure. From this framework we analyze how research on ecosystem services has been addressed in cities of Latin America and the Caribbean, in order to discuss their incorporation into policies of urban planning, in the context of nature-based solutions and sustainable development goals ...
Elaeis guineensis; agrochemicals; certification; ecolabeling; farms; globalization; governance; habitat conservation; industry; landscapes; mineral fertilizers; motivation; palm oils; plantations; socioeconomics; supply chain; surveys; Colombia; Latin America
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... The globalization of food systems has created new challenges for sustainability governance. Voluntary certification schemes, or eco-labels, have emerged as the primary mechanism to improve production practices in complex commodity supply chains. However promising, these programs are difficult to assess in practice, and evidence of their effectiveness is mixed. In the oil palm sector, the Roundtabl ...
advocacy; childhood obesity; hospitals; issues and policy; politics; research and development; Brazil; Chile; Colombia; Latin America; Mexico
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... Progress has been made in the development and widespread implementation of effective interventions to address childhood obesity, yet important challenges remain. To understand how the United States and Latin American countries achieved success in implementing obesity policies and programs (PAPs) and identify improvement opportunities using implementation science principles. We identified three com ...
environment; information sources; laws and regulations; waste management; Brazil; Colombia
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... This article aims to identify and comprehend the challenges and strengths behind public policies on integrating waste pickers (WPs) within waste management systems in Colombia and Brazil. In both, WPs started to come together and found organisations and external agents such as NGOs began to support organised groups of WPs. After 10 years of judicial court actions in Colombia, WPs organisations wer ...
Jenny C. Cardenas; Sandra Y. Giraldo-Parra; Maria U. Gonzalez; Lady Y. Gutierrez-Silva; Lucy Jaimes-Villamizar; Alba L. Roa-Parra; Daisy J. Carvajal; Hugo O. Valdivia; Juan F. Sanchez; Tonya M. Colpitts; Berlin Londono-Renteria
Dengue virus; antigens; dengue; infrastructure; pandemic; polymerase chain reaction; probability; vaccine development; Asia; Colombia; Latin America
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... As demonstrated with the novel coronavirus pandemic, rapid and accurate diagnosis is key to determine the clinical characteristic of a disease and to improve vaccine development. Once the infected person is identified, hematological findings may be used to predict disease outcome and offer the correct treatment. Rapid and accurate diagnosis and clinical parameters are pivotal to track infections d ...
administrative management; chi-square distribution; databases; deforestation; ecological restoration; forest ecology; hydrology; oils; paper; public policy; Colombia; Latin America
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... Loss and degradation of mangroves in Colombia has motivated the development of restoration efforts since the 1990s. Many experiences have been accumulated; however, there is no general balance to evaluate approaches, techniques, and results from which best practices and public policy, and a long-term national mangrove restoration plan can be proposed. To fill this gap, a review of the scientific l ...
Tectona grandis; coastal plains; differential equation; growth models; monsoon season; research; tree and stand measurements; uncertainty; Colombia; Latin America
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... Teak (Tectona grandis L.f.) plantations are increasingly being established in tropical regions to meet a rising demand for its highly valued timber. Teak plantations have been established in the Atlantic Coastal Plain region of Colombia, a region climatically suitable for teak growth by having a monsoon climate with a unimodal precipitation pattern. Tree diameter at breast height (DBH, 1.3 m above ...
World Health Organization; adulthood; childhood; dengue; health services; models; monitoring; public health; relative humidity; temperature; tropical diseases; urban areas; Colombia; Latin America
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... According to the World Health Organization, dengue is a neglected tropical disease. Latin America, specifically Colombia is in alert regarding this arbovirosis as there was a spike in the number of reported dengue cases at the beginning of 2019. Although there has been a worldwide decrease in the number of reported dengue cases, Colombia has shown a growing trend over the past few years. This stud ...
Monte Carlo method; Toxoplasma gondii; cost effectiveness; decision support systems; disease course; parasites; public health; sulfamethoxazole; therapeutics; toxoplasmosis; trees; trimethoprim; virulence; willingness to pay; Colombia; Europe; Latin America; North America
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... Ocular toxoplasmosis is an infection caused by Toxoplasma gondii. In South America, the clinical course of ocular toxoplasmosis is more severe than in Europe and North America because virulent strains of the parasite are present. Ocular toxoplasmosis is the leading cause of posterior uveitis and retinochoroiditis in Colombia, requiring timely and appropriate treatment. However, there is no standar ...
agriculture; climate; food security; meteorological data; mountains; rain; Andes region; Chile; Colombia; Latin America
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... Climate variability imposes greater challenges on family farming and especially on rural communities in vulnerable mountainous regions such as the Andes in Latin America. Changes in rainfall patterns and fluctuations in temperatures cause a greater frequency of extreme events, increased pests, and crop diseases, which even lead to food insecurity in communities that depend on self-production for s ...
infrastructure; land policy; people; quality of life; urbanization; Colombia
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... Much of the research on urbanization has focused on how rural populations move to cities for work opportunities. This paper takes a different perspective on the relations between rural populations and urbanization. The livelihoods of rural dwellers on the outskirts of the city of Bogotá in Colombia are increasingly affected by the expansion of urban activities and infrastructure. Therefore, urbani ...
Neospora caninum; beef; cattle; histopathology; milk; neosporosis; observational studies; seroprevalence; veterinary parasitology; Colombia; Latin America
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... There are over 25.6 million cattle heads in Colombia being the fourth-highest herd in Latin America. This study aimed to describe the seroprevalence of Neospora caninum in cattle from 25 rural farms at Pereira municipality, Risaralda Department, which has a total bovine population of 43,508 animals. A cross-sectional observational study was performed in beef and dairy herds during 2017–2018. A tot ...
Georgina Gómez; Irina Kovalskys; Ana Carolina B. Leme; Dayana Quesada; Attilio Rigotti; Lilia Yadira Cortés Sanabria; Martha Cecilia Yépez García; María Reyna Liria-Domínguez; Marianella Herrera-Cuenca; Regina Mara Fisberg; Agatha Nogueira Previdelli; Viviana Guajardo; Gerson Ferrari; Mauro Fisberg; Juan Carlos Brenes; on behalf of the ELANS Study Group
body mass index; fish; food intake; food quality; gender; obesity; seafoods; socioeconomic status; Argentina; Brazil; Chile; Colombia; Costa Rica; Ecuador; Latin America; Peru; Venezuela
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... Poor health and diet quality are associated with living within a low socioeconomic status (SES). This study aimed to investigate the impact of SES on diet quality and body mass index in Latin America. Data from the “Latin American Health and Nutrition Study (ELANS)”, a multi-country, population-based study of 9218 participants, were used. Dietary intake was collected through two 24 h recalls from ...
COVID-19 infection; administration of justice; exercise; humans; mortality; pandemic; unemployment; violence; Colombia; Latin America; Mexico
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... The crisis provoked by COVID-19 has rapidly and profoundly affected Latin America. The impacts are seen not only in infection and mortality rates, but also in the economic decline and increased inequality that plague the region, problems which have been exacerbated as a result of the pandemic. Women, in particular, constitute one of the groups most heavily impacted by the pandemic, facing higher r ...
Elaeis guineensis; industry; livelihood; markets; politics; rural poverty; tropical forests; Brazil; Colombia; Costa Rica; Ecuador; Guatemala; Honduras; Latin America; Mexico; Nicaragua; Peru
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... Does oil palm boost agricultural growth and reduce rural poverty, or is it a threat to rural livelihoods and tropical forest landscapes? This paper introduces a Special Issue on this question, focusing on Latin America. It reviews available literature and data for countries where oil palm either covers large areas (Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Honduras) or has recently expanded (Costa Rica, Guatemal ...
... Even though the field of Learning Analytics (LA) has experienced an expressive growth in the last few years. The vast majority of the works found in literature are usually focusing on experimentation of techniques and methods over datasets restricted to a given discipline, course, or institution and are still few works manipulating region and countrywide datasets. This may be since the implementat ...
European Union; circular economy; public policy; waste management; Asia; Colombia
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... Circular Economy (CE) turned into one of the most popular topics worldwide for presenting itself as the solution to problems linked to the traditional “take-make-consume-dispose” system. But, how can CE be addressed as public policies worldwide? While there are ambitious and committed strategies in the European Union and Asia, the path that emerging economies are taking is poorly researched. There ...
Lyme disease; anaplasmosis; animal diseases; babesiosis; behavior change; biodiversity; cats; dirofilariasis; disease transmission; dogs; ehrlichiosis; heartworms; human health; islands; leishmaniasis; mycoplasmosis; pet ownership; pets; physicians; therapeutics; trypanosomiasis; veterinarians; Argentina; Belize; Bolivia; Brazil; Caribbean; Chile; Colombia; Costa Rica; Cuba; Dominican Republic; Ecuador; El Salvador; French Guiana; Guatemala; Guyana; Honduras; Latin America; Mexico; Nicaragua; Panama; Paraguay; Peru; Puerto Rico; Suriname; Uruguay; Venezuela
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... Companion vector-borne diseases (CVBDs) are an important threat for pet life, but may also have an impact on human health, due to their often zoonotic character. The importance and awareness of CVBDs continuously increased during the last years. However, information on their occurrence is often limited in several parts of the world, which are often especially affected. Latin America (LATAM), a reg ...
Food and Agriculture Organization; World Health Organization; aflatoxin B1; aflatoxin M1; dried milk; fluorescence; food intake; grocery stores; high performance liquid chromatography; milk; risk estimate; standard deviation; Caribbean; Colombia; Latin America
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... Aflatoxin M₁ (AFM₁) and aflatoxin B₁ (AFB₁) were determined in 51 milk powder samples purchased from different grocery stores located in the Caribbean region of Colombia. Analysis was conducted using QuEChERS extraction and high-performance liquid chromatography with fluorescence detection. Results from the analytical method showed recovery ranges from 65% to 110% and relative standard deviations ...
Actinobacteria; Bacteroidetes; Chloroflexi; Firmicutes; Proteobacteria; activated sludge; anaerobic digesters; anaerobic digestion; gas production (biological); methane production; microbial communities; municipal wastewater; ribosomal DNA; sequence analysis; wastewater treatment; Colombia; Latin America
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... Anaerobic digestion is a microbe-driven process widely applied to treat activated sludge from municipal wastewater treatment plants. It is one of the most efficient solutions for sludge reduction along with biogas production. However, the knowledge of the microbial consortium involved in this process is still unknown in full-scale anaerobic digesters from Latin America. This study aimed to elucida ...
Hevea brasiliensis; Pseudocercospora; canopy; leaf blight; pathogens; relative humidity; risk reduction; rubber; sporulation; Amazonia; Colombia; Latin America
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... In Latin America, there are areas that favor the cultivation of rubber (Hevea brasiliensis) and reduce the risk of South American Leaf Blight (SALB), produced by the pathogen Pseudocercospora ulei. This study aimed to analyze the growth, early yielding and SALB resistance of nine promising clones and IAN 873 (control) in the pre-tapping and early tapping phases in a large-scale clone trial in a lo ...
breakfast; calcium; cross-sectional studies; energy; population; underweight; weight; Argentina; Brazil; Chile; Colombia; Costa Rica; Ecuador; Latin America; Peru; Venezuela
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... The aim of this study was to provide updated data on breakfast consumption, associated factors and its contribution to daily intakes among Latin American populations. A total of 9218 subjects, 15 to 65 years old, were evaluated in the ELANS study, a multicenter cross-sectional study conducted in eight Latin American countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Peru and Venez ...
Chagas disease; adolescents; adults; confidence interval; databases; disease prevalence; males; meta-analysis; people; public health; rural areas; statistical models; systematic review; urban areas; Colombia; Latin America
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... Background and Objectives: Chagas disease is a major public health problem in Latin America. A neglected disease of poor and rural Latin American populations, it has now emerged in other regions and urban areas due to international migration. In Colombia, systematic data pertaining to the disease's magnitude in the general population and its distribution within regions are lacking. Our objective i ...
... Aim: to describe physical activity and ultra-processed foods consumption, their changes and sociodemographic predictors among adolescents from countries in Europe (Italy and Spain) and Latin America (Brazil, Chile, and Colombia) during the SARS-CoV-2-pandemic period. Methods: Cross-sectional study via web survey. International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ) and weekly ultra-processed food ...
Elaeis guineensis; agricultural industry; capital; case studies; censuses; fats and oils industry; food security; forest reserves; growers; land reform; palm oils; rural poverty; violence; Colombia; Latin America
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... Between 1993 and 2015 the land planted to oil palm in Colombia increased fourfold, from 119,000ha to 484,000ha. This rapid growth coincided with a period of extreme armed conflict and displacement, with inequality in land distribution reaching the highest levels in Latin America (Oxfam, 2017). These occurrences spurred this inquiry into conditions on the ground in the palm growing zones and the po ...
databases; gender; indigenous peoples; land rights; Colombia
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... The dispossession of people from their land was a primary aspect of the war in Colombia. As an important part of the peace negotiations and current efforts at peace-building, land restitution in the country is a large-scale, multifaceted effort intended to address one of the more difficult components of the peace process. While there are many important features to the Colombian land restitution pr ...
Gorgoniidae; Plexauridae; corals; databases; new species; research; Caribbean; Colombia; Latin America
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... Corals are some of the conspicuous taxa in deep-sea ecosystems. Yet, characterizing coral diversity is difficult and requires a combination of both morphological and genetic data. Many leading coral taxonomy experts are close-to retirement or have already retired. It is now imperative that the hands-on expertise that these taxonomists have – much of which is not captured in manuscripts or books – ...
accountability; databases; foreign direct investment; income; issues and policy; land use; multivariate analysis; resource management; violence; Brazil; Colombia; Honduras; Latin America; Mexico; Peru; Philippines
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... Environmental and land defenders play a crucial role in attempts to slow down environmental change and address power inequalities in land-use and resource development. Yet, they frequently face repression, including defamation, criminalization, and assassination. Recent policy and media coverage initiatives have provided much needed attention to the protection and support of defenders, but there h ...
... Newcastle disease (ND) infects wild birds and poultry species worldwide, severely impacting the economics of the poultry industry. ND is especially problematic in Latin America (Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, and Peru) where it is either endemic or re-emerging. The disease is caused by infections with one of the different strains of virulent avian Newcastle disease virus (NDV), recently renamed Avia ...
Mexicans; animal behavior; researchers; scientists; Argentina; Australia; Brazil; Canada; Colombia; Ecuador; Europe; Latin America; Mexico; United States; Venezuela
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... Latin America was fundamental in the intellectual formation of the founders of modern biology (e.g. Alexander von Humboldt, Charles Darwin, Alfred Russel Wallace, Henry Bates and William D. Hamilton), but these pioneers directed their findings primarily to a European audience. Only later did European ethological influence reach Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and Venezuela. From there, the study of beha ...
F. A. García-Bastidas; J. C. Quintero-Vargas; M. Ayala-Vasquez; T. Schermer; M. F. Seidl; M. Santos-Paiva; A. M. Noguera; C. Aguilera-Galvez; A. Wittenberg; R. Hofstede; A. Sørensen; G. H. J. Kema
Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense; Fusarium wilt; Musa; Panama disease; bananas; chlorosis; crop production; culture media; diagnostic techniques; discoloration; exports; farms; fruit growing; fungi; genome; inoculum; leaves; loop-mediated isothermal amplification; pathogenicity; phylogeny; plantains (fruit); quarantine; sequence analysis; sodium hypochlorite; wilting; Colombia; Jordan; Latin America
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... Fusarium wilt of bananas, commonly called Panama disease, is caused by a suite of Fusarium species. Fusarium odoratissimum (previously known as Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. cubense) comprises tropical race 4 (TR4) (Maryani et al. 2019), which is highly aggressive on Cavendish bananas as well as many other banana varieties (Ploetz 2015). Since the 1990s, TR4 has spread across Asia until it surfaced out ...
Aspergillus fumigatus; agar; calmodulin; carrots; corn; flowers; genes; genetic variation; itraconazole; peas; potatoes; promoter regions; soil; species identification; therapeutics; Colombia; Latin America
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... Aspergillus fumigatus resistant to azole as first-line therapy has been reported in azole-naïve patients. This worldwide resistance phenomenon has been linked to fungicide-driven alterations in the cyp51A gene and its promoter region (such as TR₃₄/L98H and TR₄₆/Y121F/T289A). Azole-resistant A. fumigatus related to the use of triazole fungicides in flower fields was recently reported In Colombia. T ...
... Palm oil is a very important commodity especially to Malaysia and Indonesia. However, Latin American countries have significant industries, particularly Colombia. Climate change (CC) is a highly probable phenomenon which will affect diseases of oil palm (OP) with Phytophthora palmivora causing devastating outbreaks in Latin America and especially Colombia. Furthermore, the oomycete is an endemic p ...
Leishmania amazonensis; aneuploidy; cats; chromosomes; copy number variation; cutaneous leishmaniasis; dogs; etiological agents; genes; genomics; heterozygosity; humans; medicine; nucleotide sequences; parasites; patients; single nucleotide polymorphism; veterinary medicine; virulence; Colombia; Latin America
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... Leishmania amazonensis is one of the causative agents of the different forms of cutaneous leishmaniasis present in Latin America. This species has been isolated from humans and animals (canine/feline) in some endemic regions of Colombia. Therefore, L. amazonensis is of great relevance at the clinical and epidemiological levels in medicine and veterinary science. Until now, very few genomes from th ...
... During the last decade, most of Latin American and the Caribbean (LAC) countries have implemented oral live rotavirus vaccines in their national vaccination programs with remarkable results. However, it has been suggested that massive vaccination could lead to the replacement of circulating genotypes or the emergence of new variants or neutralizing antibodies escape mutants, which may reduce the e ...
... Studies conducted over the past eight years in Latin America (LA) have continued to produce new knowledge regarding health impacts of arsenic (As) in drinking water. We conducted a systematic review of 92 peer-reviewed English articles published between 2011 and 2018 to expand our understanding on these health effects. Majority of the LA studies on As have been conducted in Chile and Mexico. Addit ...
at-risk population; carnivores; children; fish; fish consumption; gold; hairs; indigenous peoples; mercury; mining; risk assessment; traditional technology; traditions; volunteers; women; Amazonia; Colombia; Latin America
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... Mercury (Hg) use in artisanal gold mining in the Colombian Amazon is widespread, and little is known about the exposure on local indigenous people. The aim of this study was to assess the levels of total Hg (T-Hg) in human hair on the Yaigojé Apaporis National Natural Park, Colombia, at the Colombian Amazon, specifically at the communities of Bocas de Taraira, Ñumi, Vista Hermosa, and Bocas de Uga ...
animal husbandry; anthropogenic activities; chromium; copper; crop production; deforestation; gold; heavy metals; lead; mercury; mining; nickel; sediments; silver; socioeconomic development; total organic carbon; traditional technology; wetlands; zinc; Colombia; Latin America
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... Global mining activities in Latin America have increased exponentially over the last decade. The present study aims to assess the historical impact of Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining activities (ASGM) in the Department of Antioquia, Colombia, a region characterized by increased mining development over the past century. Historical trends of heavy metals (i.e., Ag, Cr, Cu, Hg, Ni, Pb, and Zn) ...
DNA; Leishmania; Lolliguncula panamensis; copy number variation; cutaneous leishmaniasis; databases; genome; genomics; geographical distribution; high-throughput nucleotide sequencing; humans; intraspecific variation; pathogenicity; patients; ploidy; single nucleotide polymorphism; Colombia; Latin America; Panama
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... Leishmania (Viannia) panamensis is one of the most important Leishmania species associated with cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) in Latin America. Despite its wide geographic distribution and pathogenic potential in humans and animals, the genomic variability of this species is low compared with other Leishmania species circulating in the same geographical area. No studies have re ...
attitudes and opinions; farming systems; households; interviews; people; rural areas; rural education and training; rural population; socioeconomics; villages; Asia; Colombia; Europe; Latin America
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... One of the most challenging processes in the rural world is the one related to rural abandonment. Rural abandonment has drawn attention worldwide, particularly in Europe and Asia without neglecting the importance in other regional contexts such as Latin America. Even though the literature about rural abandonment drivers is vast, these pieces of literature do not identify the drivers perceived by t ...
accelerometers; educational status; models; monitoring; nutrition; physical activity; Argentina; Brazil; Chile; Colombia; Costa Rica; Ecuador; Latin America; Peru; Venezuela
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... Worldwide studies of physical activity and sedentary time have historically under-represented low- and middle-income countries due to the lack of surveillance data. The purpose of this paper is to describe the methods and procedures used for the assessment of physical activity and sedentary time in the Latin American Study of Nutrition and Health (Estudio Latinoamericano de Nutrición y Salud; ELAN ...
... Bud rot disease is a damaging disease of oil palm in Colombia. The pathogen responsible for this disease is a species of oomyctes, Phytophthora palmivora which is also the causal pathogen of several tropical crop diseases such as fruit rot and stem canker of cocoa, rubber, durian and jackfruit. No outbreaks of bud rot have been reported in oil palm in Malaysia or other Southeast Asian countries, d ...
Agrostis; Neotropics; florets; grasses; grasslands; lectotypes; new combination; phylogeny; plant taxonomy; trichomes; Latin America; Mexico; South America
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... Based on morphological study and corroborated by unpublished molecular phylogenetic analyses, five grass species of high-mountain grasslands in Mexico, Central and South America, Agrostis bacillata, A. exserta, A. liebmannii, A. rosei, and A. trichodes, are transferred to Podagrostis and bring the number of species of this genus recognized in the New World to ten. The name Apera liebmannii is lect ...
... Disease-related malnutrition is a known factor for poor outcomes. However, there is a lack of knowledge about the prevalence and the impact of nutritional risk on outcomes in Colombia. The aim of the present study was to determine the prevalence of nutritional risk, to know how nutrition screening is routinely performed and to determine the impact of nutritional risk on the outcomes of in-hospital ...
business enterprises; markets; oils; politics; Argentina; Brazil; Colombia; Latin America; Mexico; Venezuela
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... In its first generation, the literature on the resource curse typically posited that resource dependence shapes a country's economy and politics. More recent work posits that the effects are mediated by institutions. We take this newer approach further by arguing that economic and political institutions not just mediate but actually shape resource dependence. Our focus is on performance across nat ...
... Transforming Latin America’s extensive grazing systems is critical for forest landscape restoration (FLR) but conservation initiatives rarely make efforts to include cattle ranchers. Engaging ranchers requires understanding their perceptions about how improved management and conservation practices fit into their overall production strategy. To assess ranchers’ motivations and limitations for adopt ...
fabrics; issues and policy; surveys; sustainable development; urban agriculture; urban development; Colombia; Latin America
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... This article advances academic and policy debates on peri-urban agriculture (PUA) by examining the phenomenon in the city of Sogamoso, Colombia. Planners, developers, and local authorities in Sogamoso have explicitly framed PUA as a barrier to development: a backwards, localized, low-tech and economically poorly performing activity that needs to make space for a more ‘productive’ ‘modern’ economy. ...
action potentials; air; calcium; carbon; carbon dioxide; carbon monoxide; chemical composition; computer simulation; energy-dispersive X-ray analysis; fuel combustion; human health; industry; iron; lead; lubricants; particulates; physicochemical properties; silicon; soil pollution; thermogravimetry; water; Colombia; Latin America
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... Particulate matter (PM) is a complex mixture of particles that changes over time and from place to place; however, most PM is caused by the fuel combustion of motor vehicles and industry. PM is associated with acute and chronic illnesses, such as pulmonary and cardiovascular diseases. Medellín is one of the most polluted cities in Latin America. Therefore, the physicochemical characterization of i ...
Guadua angustifolia; bamboos; cattle; cattle productivity; farmers; forest restoration; forest types; grazing; landscape restoration; landscapes; models; pastures; riparian areas; riparian forests; silvopastoral systems; species richness; trees; woody plants; Andes region; Colombia; Latin America
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... To meet their large-scale forest and landscape restoration targets, countries must find ways to accommodate areas for conservation alongside agricultural production. In some pasture-dominated regions of Latin America, intensive silvopastoral systems (SPS) are being promoted to increase cattle productivity on certain lands while facilitating the removal of cattle from marginal areas for forest rest ...
diabetes; folic acid; gestational age; models; morbidity; obesity; pre-eclampsia; pregnancy; public policy; weight gain; Caribbean; Colombia; Latin America
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... In Latin America and the Caribbean, hypertensive pregnancy disorders are responsible for almost 26% of all maternal deaths [1] and, in Colombia, they account for 59% of all severe maternal morbidity (SMM) cases, and 59.7% of all SMM cases in adolescents [2]. One of the most important hypertensive pregnancy disorders is preeclampsia (PE). Lives can be saved, if PE is prevented, or detected early an ...
almonds; cadmium; cocoa beans; crops; farms; heavy metals; humans; leaves; microorganisms; monitoring; plant litter; plant tissues; processed foods; regression analysis; soil depth; soil pH; toxicity; Colombia; Latin America
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... Cadmium (Cd) is a highly toxic heavy metal that can cause harmful effects in soils, plants, micro-organisms and human beings. Plants absorb Cd from available forms in the soil. In cocoa crops of Latin America, higher levels of Cd than those allowed by international regulations on processed foods frequently have been reported. Consequently, close monitoring of such crops is required in order to gua ...
Tomás R. Bolaño-Ortiz; Yiniva Camargo-Caicedo; Salvador Enrique Puliafito; María Florencia Ruggeri; Sindy Bolaño-Diaz; Romina Pascual-Flores; Jorge Saturno; Sergio Ibarra-Espinosa; Olga L. Mayol-Bracero; Elvis Torres-Delgado; Francisco Cereceda-Balic
COVID-19 infection; Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; air pollution; air quality; climate; decision making; mortality; poverty; qualitative analysis; rain; relative humidity; research; social inequality; temperature; wind speed; Argentina; Brazil; Caribbean; Chile; Colombia; Dominican Republic; Ecuador; Latin America; Mexico; Puerto Rico
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... We have evaluated the spread of SARS-CoV-2 through Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region by means of a correlation between climate and air pollution indicators, namely, average temperature, minimum temperature, maximum temperature, rainfall, average relative humidity, wind speed, and air pollution indicators PM₁₀, PM₂.₅, and NO₂ with the COVID-19 daily new cases and deaths. The study focuse ...
COVID-19 infection; data collection; income; mental health; pandemic; quarantine; surveys; Colombia; Latin America
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... This paper presents three data sets about the consequences of COVID-19 pandemic on mental health and subjective wellbeing in Colombia for three population subgroups: adults (+18 years old), college students, and informal workers. The data was gathered using three different online surveys in Colombia, South America. Each online survey had a different collection process. For adults and informal work ...
case studies; cattle; data collection; equipment; factor analysis; herds; infrastructure; livestock husbandry; mortality; pastoralism; pasture management; reproductive performance; rural development; Colombia; Latin America
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... There are few reports on dual-purpose cattle systems characterization in Latin America and Colombia based on large datasets. This limits our understanding of their dynamics, and the establishment of public policies and government programs to improve their productive performance, promotion and rural development. This study aimed to characterize very small, small, medium, and large dual-purpose farm ...
... Precision biotechnologies have appeared on the horizon resulting in a plethora of possibilities to modify the genome of different organisms with relatively easy application, low cost, and high precision. These technologies make it possible to work with a very simple biological system and have great potential for medicine, and agriculture. Latin American is embracing the technology and researchers ...
Elaeis guineensis; acoustics; bananas; biocenosis; biodiversity; canopy; cattle; deforestation; fauna; forest damage; forests; governance; habitat fragmentation; habitats; industry; land use; landscapes; paddies; pastures; plantations; production technology; rice; supply chain; sustainable development; Colombia; Latin America; South East Asia
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... CONTEXT: Expanding oil palm plantations have caused widespread deforestation and biodiversity loss in Southeast Asia, stigmatizing the industry around the world regardless of regional context. In Latin America, oil palm plantations are primarily replacing other agroindustrial land uses with uncertain implications for local biodiversity. OBJECTIVES: Our aim was to create empirical baseline data to ...
... Chagas disease affects more than 6 million people in Latin America, it is a parasitic disease caused by the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi, which is transmitted mainly by bloodsucking insects of the Triatominae subfamily. Studies on microbial communities that inhabit the insect gut are important to understanding their role in the parasite transmission and development. The present work aims to evaluat ...
batteries; carbon dioxide; electricity; electricity costs; freight; fuels; greenhouse gas emissions; imports; infrastructure; insurance; linear models; ownership; prices; public policy; subsidies; tariffs; trucks; Argentina; Brazil; Chile; Colombia; Latin America; Uruguay
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... The transport sector stands in the core of Latin-American economies but is also responsible for 19% of CO2 emissions in the continent. Battery electric trucks (BET) are a modern alternative to diesel trucks with the potential to mitigate the freight transport emissions of CO2. This study makes an economic analysis, in a total cost of ownership (TCO) basis, for different weight classes and applicat ...
... The common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) is a major food legume cultivated by smallholder farmers in the tropics of Latin America and eastern and southern Africa. Acid soil and high temperature limit its production. Here we quantify differences in agronomical, phenological and physiological performance of common bean lines in order to identify promising lines with adaptation to acid soils and high ...
Maclura tinctoria; agricultural land; allometry; calcium; farms; forest trees; guidelines; hills; indigenous species; introduced plants; nitrogen; organic matter; pH; planting; reforestation; soil; soil fertility; timber production; tree age; tree and stand measurements; tree growth; tree trunk; Andes region; Colombia; Latin America
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... As reforestation and restoration processes gain momentum across the world native tree species are being established for production, conservation and restoration purposes in agricultural landscapes. One such tree with promise is dinde [Maclura tinctoria (L.) D. Don ex Steud]; a multi-purpose, Neotropical tree species that is being widely introduced on to farms of the coffee axis region in the Latin ...
Salix humboldtiana; climatic factors; evapotranspiration; irrigation; lysimeters; municipal wastewater; plant growth; solar radiation; subtropics; Colombia; Latin America
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... This study aims to evaluate the evapotranspiration (EVP) rate of the willow species Salix humboldtiana to be used as a plant species for evapotranspirative willow system (EWS) to treat domestic wastewater in highland climate conditions in Latin America. Twelve lysimeters were installed in Bogotá, Colombia (2,600 m.a.s.l.). Two parameters were evaluated to determine the effect on EVP rate as follow ...
Loa; algae; anthropogenic activities; arsenic; beaches; coastal water; coasts; fish; fish consumption; gold; health effects assessments; iron; marine sediments; mining; neoplasms; phosphorus fertilizers; risk; Argentina; Chile; Colombia; North Sea
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... High concentrations of total arsenic (As), even above the Brazilian legislative threshold for marine sediments of 70 mg kg⁻¹, were found in beach sands and near-shore surface sediments. Two mechanisms (anthropogenic activities and sedimentary processes in the coastal waters) are responsible for this contamination. The anthropogenic impact includes releases from metallurgical plants, phosphate fert ...
agroforestry; agrosilvopastoral systems; grazing; international cooperation; livestock; principal investigators; public services and goods; ranchers; research and development; research support; stakeholders; trees; Argentina; Bolivia; Brazil; Chile; Colombia; Ecuador; Europe; Latin America; North America; Peru
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... In recent decades agroforestry has undergone significant development in Latin America. South America generates the most scientific research on the topic in the region. We conducted a comprehensive review and analysis of knowledge production for South American agroforestry that includes livestock grazing, known as agrosilvopastoralism (AS), examining how different sociopolitical factors such as sou ...