Sustainable Agriculture & Natural Resource Management (SANREM)

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Comparing forest decentralization and local institutional change in Bolivia, Kenya, Mexico and Uganda

Abstract: In this paper we assess the institutional and environmental impacts of forest decentralization policies in Bolivia, Kenya, Mexico, and Uganda. Although decentralization is often described […]

  • Date of Publication: 2009
  • Author(s): E. Coleman; F. Fleischman; J. Bauer
  • Type of Document: Research Report

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Sistematizacion de las acciones de coaliciones de persuasion implementadas en las comunidades de Santa Maria y Apopata

Este informe contiene la descripcion del proceso de coaliciones en las comunidades campesinas de Apopata y Santa Maria, los logros obtenidos y las dificultades encontradas en […]

  • Date of Publication: 2009
  • Author(s): E. Fernandez-Baca; P. Condor
  • Type of Document: Research Report

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Upland crops can be irrigated efficiently and cheaply

Summary: This newsletter article was based on an interview with Dr. Victor B. Ella by Mr. Florante Cruz, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and […]

  • Date of Publication: 2009
  • Author(s): F. Cruz
  • Type of Document: Newsletter

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Challenges and Approaches to Statistical Design and Inference in High Dimensional Investigations

Part II, Networks, Pathways, Statistical Issues, and Novel Computational Tools, includes this particular chapter on the unique statistical challenges and approaches relating to high-dimensional biological research. […]

  • Date of Publication: 2009
  • Author(s): G.L. Gadbury; K.A. Garrett; D.B. Allison
  • Type of Document: Scholarly Article

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Soil metagenomics and tropical soil productivity

This presentation summarizes research in the soil metagenomics cross cutting research activity. Soil metagenomics studies soil microbial communities as contributors to soil health.C

  • Date of Publication: 2009
  • Author(s): K. Garrett
  • Type of Document: Media

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Intraspecific functional diversity in hosts and its effect on disease risk across a climatic gradient

The effects of host biodiversity on disease risk may vary greatly depending on host population structure and climatic conditions. Agricultural diseases such as potato late blight, […]

  • Date of Publication: 2009
  • Author(s): K.A. Garrett; L.N. Zuniga; E. Roncal; G.A.Forbes; C.C. Mundt; Z. Su; R.J. Nelson
  • Type of Document: Scholarly Article

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Plant pathogens as indicators of climate change

We have reviewed how changes in the pattern of plant disease can be analyzed for evaluation of evidence for climate change impacts.

  • Date of Publication: 2009
  • Author(s): K.A. Garrett; M. Nita; E.D. De Wolf; L. Gomez; A.H. Sparks
  • Type of Document: Scholarly Article

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Local forecast communication in the Altiplano

Abstract: Forecasts play an important role in planting decisions for Andean peasant producers. Predictions of the upcoming cropping season determine when, where, and what farmers will […]

  • Date of Publication: 2009
  • Author(s): J. Gilles; C. Valdivia
  • Type of Document: Scholarly Article

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Understanding the decline of organic fertilizer use in the Altiplano

This poster presents some results of a multi-disciplinary research program sponsored by the SANREM-CRSP that is examining ways that Andean farmers can adapt to climate change. […]

  • Date of Publication: 2009
  • Author(s): J. Gilles; P. Motavalli; J. Thomas
  • Type of Document: Media

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Pyrosequencing to determine the influence of fallow period on soil microbial communities in the Bolivian Highlands

Using pyrosequencing methods, we are characterizing the responses of microbial communities in these systems to fallow period and the presence of Thola. In the first phase […]

  • Date of Publication: 2009
  • Author(s): L. Gomez; A. Jumpponen; M. Herman; K.A. Garrett
  • Type of Document: Media

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