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Resilience to climate change

31/12/2020 Go to Evidence

Almost 50% of studies on climate resilient crops identify extension services as a factor for successful adoption (Laborde, 2020).

Casi el 50% de los estudios sobre cultivos resilientes al clima identifican los servicios de extensión como un factor para el éxito en la adopción. (Laborde, 2020)

Laborde (2020). Ceres2030: Soluciones sostenibles para poner fin al hambre

Deforestation

28/04/2020 Go to Evidence

23% of global greenhouse gas emissions come from deforestation, exceeding emissions from the global transport sector.

Greenpeace (2020).

Greenpeace (2020). Blog: De esta manera la destrucción de los bosques aumenta el cambio climático. https://www.greenpeace.org/argentina/blog/issues/bosques/de-esta-manera-destruccion-de-bosques-aumenta-el-cambio-climatico/

Atlantic Forest

01/08/2019 Go to Evidence

15% of Brazil's territory occupies the Atlantic Forest, a critical biome with 35% of the country's plants and the most threatened (Da Silva R. F. F. B. et al., 2019).

Da Silva, R. F. B., Batistella, M., Palmieri, R., Dou, Y., & Millington, J. D. (2019). Eco-certification protocols as mechanisms to foster sustainable environmental practices in telecoupled systems. Forest Policy and Economics, Volumen 105, 2019, páginas 52-63, ISSN 1389-9341.

Deforestation

21/10/2018 Go to Evidence

65,394 km² of deforestation occurred in Mato Grosso between 2000 and 2011, accounted for 12% of South American deforestation and 3% globally (Garrett et al., 2018).

65,394 km² de deforestación ocurridos en Mato Grosso entre 2000 y 2011, representaron el 12% de la deforestación sudamericana y el 3% a nivel global (Garrett et al., 2018).

arrett, R.D., Koh, I., Lambin, E.F., le Polain de Waroux, Y., Kastens, J.H., & Brown, J.C. (2018). Intensification in agriculture-forest frontiers: Land use responses to development and conservation policies in Brazil. Global Environmental Change, 53, 233-243.

People reached by HarvestPlus biofortified crops

03/01/2017 Go to Evidence

20 million people in farm households in developing countries are growing and consuming biofortified crops according to HarvestPlus (Bouis & Saltzman, 2017).

20 millones de personas en hogares agrícolas de países en desarrollo están cultivando y consumiendo cultivos biofortificados según HarvestPlus (Bouis & Saltzman, 2017).

Bouis, H.E., & Saltzman, A. (2017). Improving nutrition through biofortification: A review of evidence from HarvestPlus, 2003 through 2016. Global Food Security, 12, 49-58.

Megadiverse countries

05/01/2016 Go to Evidence

6 (Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela) of the 17 most megadiverse countries in the world are in LAC.

UNEP-WCMC (2016).

UNEP-WCMC (UN Environment Programme - World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Reino Unido). 2016. El estado de la biodiversidad en América Latina y el Caribe: una evaluación del avance hacia las metas de AICHI para la diversidad biológica (en línea). Cambridge, Reino Unido. 140 p.