Fue una de las frases del Presidente del Uruguay, José Mujica, “la Economía no entiende la existencia de los productores”, se debe definir la realidad sustentable que viven los agricultores para aplicar políticas públicas diferenciadas que permitan el desarrollo del agro.

DAPA research shows ~80% of species in South America to have one or more populations under threat due to human activities, and an scarying percent of roughly 15% of species with the majority of their populations under high risk of extinction.

It is an undeniable fact that Colombian agriculture plays a crucial element within the South American country’s economy – actually it represents 10-14% of the national GDP. 3.7 out of 47 million Colombians rely on the agricultural sector as a form of income, yet they become increasingly vulnerable to climate change and climate variability….

New satellite-based scheme makes first payments to pastoralists What hits you when you get out of the truck at Ginda Village, in Northern Kenya, is the smell. Farmer Haro Sora’s land is littered with the carcasses of cattle and donkeys that have keeled over following an intense, prolonged drought. A skull here; half a ribcage
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Geospatial, Open-Source Hosting of Agriculture, Resources and Environmental Data (GEOSHARE) is a spatial database development initiative led by researchers at Purdue University, McGill, CIAT, IFPRI, IRRI, University of Bonn, Stanford, Duke, Ohio State and others. The aim of the initiative is to compile global land-use statistics and other data at subnational levels into a globally
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