Our ability to manage gene flow within traditional agroecosystems and their repercussions requires understanding the biology of crops, including farming practices' role in crop ecology. That these practices' effects on crop population genetics have not been quantified bespeaks lack of an appropriate analytical framework. We use a model that construes seed-management practices as part of a crop's demography to describe the dynamics of cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) in Cauca, Colombia.
India may be willing to block any consensus among the international community to ratify a ban on import and export of hazardous waste as sought by the Basel Convention on the control of cross-count
To maximize the potential of agricultural scale up, NGOs need to act as facilitators of multi-stakeholder processes that establish new types of farmer organizations, alliances to influence policy and investment, new business models, and innovative ways of delivery market services.
Colombia plans to nearly double agricultural land growing crops for food and biofuel, part of a new investment boom in the country as violence ebbs from a decades-long internal conflict fueled by drug profits.
The idea is to transform the vast eastern plains, dotted for years with illicit coca plantations, into the country's bread basket in a push to bring down food prices and boost revenues fr
Sardinata (Colombia), Jan. 27: An explosion likely caused by a methane gas buildup ripped through an underground coal mine in Colombia during a shift change on Wednesday, killing 21 workers, officials said.
Torrential rain prompts tragedy, and a need for prevention
Floods in Brazil and Colombia
When the mountains move in Rio
IN THE state of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil this week the rains were sudden and torrential. In Colombia they have been relentless, lasting months. In both countries they been far more lethal than the more publicised flooding in Australia see article).
A Colombian state ombudsman on Tuesday recommended the government consider rejecting a license for Canadian miner Greystar Resources to develop a gold project because of environmental concerns.
The national Inspector General's recommendation is not binding, but the ruling could bolster those who argue the Angostura gold mine project would impact the delicate paramo ecosystems in northeastern Sa
How do national-level actions overlap with global priorities for conservation? Answering this question is especially important in countries with high and unique biological diversity like Colombia. Global biodiversity schemes provide conservation guidance at a large scale, while national governments gazette land for protection based on a combination of criteria at regional or local scales.
THE Colombian elite, like their counterparts in India, are proud of the special relationship their government has forged with the United States. When most other countries in the region are railing against the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the U.S., the Colombian government is looking forward to its ratification. It is another matter that the Obama administration is taking its time to do so.
