Sentences with phrase «tropical agricultural research»

The new study, titled «Projections of climate change impacts on central America tropical rainforest» was published in March 2017 in the journal Climatic Change by a team of researchers of the Brazilian National Institute for Space Research (INPE) and the Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center of Costa Rica (CATIE).

While staying at this hotel you can visit the Botanical Garden at the Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE, or Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center) and a serpentarium.

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The improved grasses have revolutionized tropical forage across the continent thanks to the combined work of researchers at CIAT and the Brazilian Enterprise for Agriculture Research, a state - owned Brazilian company, says Eduardo Trigo, an agricultural economist and science adviser to the Argentine ministry of science, technology and innovation in Buenos Aires.

The study was carried out in collaboration with researchers from the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) in Colombia and the Japanese International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences (JIRCAS) in Japan.

By quantifying the impact of international trade on ecosystem services, the research team, led by Assistant Professor Roman Carrasco from the Department of Biological Sciences at the NUS Faculty of Science, showed that tropical countries are severely underpricing the agricultural commodities they produce, and thus effectively subisidising consumption by importing countries.

In 1991, he co-founded the International Laboratory for Tropical Agricultural Biotechnology while at the Scripps Research Institute.

Senior scientific researcher, Wageningen Agricultural University / Center for Research and Education in Tropical Agriculture in Costa Rica (1996 - 1998)

It is led by IRRI in collaboration with other institutes such as the Africa Rice Center, the International Center for Tropical Agriculture, the French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development, the French Research Institute for Development, and the Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences.

The partners are the Vietnamese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (VAAS), including direct participation by the Fruit and Vegetable research Institute (FAVRI) and by the Center for Agrarian Systems Research and Development (CASRAD); the Institute for Policies and Strategies for Agriculture and Rural Development (IPSARD), including direct participation by its Rural Development Centre (RUDEC); the University of Laos (Faculty of Agriculture); the Center for International Cooperation in Agriculture Research for Development (CIRAD, France), the International Centre for Tropical Agriculture entre (CIAT), and the French Institut de Recherche pour le Développemeresearch Institute (FAVRI) and by the Center for Agrarian Systems Research and Development (CASRAD); the Institute for Policies and Strategies for Agriculture and Rural Development (IPSARD), including direct participation by its Rural Development Centre (RUDEC); the University of Laos (Faculty of Agriculture); the Center for International Cooperation in Agriculture Research for Development (CIRAD, France), the International Centre for Tropical Agriculture entre (CIAT), and the French Institut de Recherche pour le DéveloppemeResearch and Development (CASRAD); the Institute for Policies and Strategies for Agriculture and Rural Development (IPSARD), including direct participation by its Rural Development Centre (RUDEC); the University of Laos (Faculty of Agriculture); the Center for International Cooperation in Agriculture Research for Development (CIRAD, France), the International Centre for Tropical Agriculture entre (CIAT), and the French Institut de Recherche pour le DéveloppemeResearch for Development (CIRAD, France), the International Centre for Tropical Agriculture entre (CIAT), and the French Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)

The Daily Blog — The CGIAR delegation was led by Director General of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Nteranya Sanginga, and included the Director Generals of Africa - Rice, the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) and Africa Harvest.

African Development Bank Group — The CGIAR delegation was led by Director General of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Nteranya Sanginga, and included the Director Generals of Africa - Rice, the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) and Africa Harvest.

RICE is led by six organizations with international mandate and with a large portfolio on rice: three members from the CGIAR — the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI, the lead institute), Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice), the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)-- and three other leading international agricultural agencies: Centre de Cooperation lnternationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad), L'lnstitut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), and the Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciencagricultural agencies: Centre de Cooperation lnternationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad), L'lnstitut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), and the Japan International Research Center for Agricultural SciencAgricultural Sciences (JIRCAS).

The world's population is projected to expand from 7 billion people to 9.6 billion by 2050, according to the United Nations, and tropical forests risk falling victim to agricultural demands as farmland expands to feed more people, said economist Arild Angelsen, a senior associate with the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and a professor with the Norwegian University of Life Sciences.