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Throughfall and soil properties in shaded and unshaded coffee plantations and a secondary forest: a case study from Southern Colombia

Journal Articles & Books
December 2016
Colombia
Central America
South America
land use

In Colombia coffee production is facing risks due to an increase in the variability and amount of rainfall, which may alter hydrological cycles and negatively influence yield quality and quantity.

ACCESO in Honduras: Mitigation co-benefits of perennial crop expansion, soil management, and livestock improvements

Policy Papers & Briefs
November 2016
Honduras
Central America
South America
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
climate change
food security
agriculture
rangelands

The agricultural development project ACCESO

reduced greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) and

led to net carbon sequestration due to perennial

crop expansion.

? Increased fertilizer use was a moderate source

of emissions that was more than offset by

reduced emissions from other ACCESOsupported

practices, including improvements in

From global rights to local practices : fostering participation at the micro-level in Latin America - final technical report

Reports & Research
October 2016
Bolivia
Brazil
Colombia
Ecuador
Peru
South America
Central America
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
land rights

The project aims to create actionable policy proposals to make spaces of participation more effective in five countries in Latin America, and to contribute to the needs of existing social movements within their local contexts.

The Big Switch in Latin America

Reports & Research
Journal Articles & Books
October 2016
Central America
Caribbean
Latin America and the Caribbean
South America

This report, produced by the Office of the Chief Economist for Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) of the World Bank, examines LAC’s challenges as the global economy settles to an equilibrium with lower growth and lower commodity prices. Chapter 1 gives an overview of the world economy and how it affects LAC’s short and medium-term prospects.

Mapping adaptive capacity and smallholder agriculture: applying expert knowledge at the landscape scale

Journal Articles & Books
September 2016
Costa Rica
Guatemala
Honduras
Central America
South America
climate change
farming systems

The impacts of climate change exacerbate the myriad challenges faced by smallholder farmers in the Tropics. In many of these same regions, there is a lack of current, consistent, and spatially-explicit data, which severely limits the ability to locate smallholder communities, map their adaptive capacity, and target adaptation measures to these communities.

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