Assessing Resilience in Coffee Dependent Communities of Honduras, Nicaragua and Haiti
ثبت نشده
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Reports from the Field Workshop on Screening for Cancer of the Uterine Cervix in Central America1
A workshop on screening for cervical cancer was held in Managua, Nicaragua, from 21 to 23 November 1995. The workshop was sponsored by the Pan American Health Organization, Cancer Care International, the Canadian International Development Agency, the International Development Research Center (Canada), and the World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Evaluation of Screening for Cancer,...
متن کاملPrevalence of Anemia in Latin America and the Caribbean.
BACKGROUND In Latin America and the Caribbean, anemia has been a public health problem that affects mainly women of childbearing age and children under 6 years of age. However, the current prevalence of anemia in this region is unknown. OBJECTIVE To examine the latest available prevalence data on anemia in Latin America and the Caribbean. METHODS A systematic review was conducted in 2011 an...
متن کاملARTHROPOD BIOLOGY Wolbachia Infection in the Coffee Berry Borer (Coleoptera: Scolytidae)
A nested polymerase chain reaction protocol yielded positive detection of the maternally inherited cytoplasmic proteobacterium Wolbachia in total genomic DNA from coffee berry borers collected in Benin, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras, India, Kenya, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Uganda. Wolbachia was not detected in specimens from Cameroon, the Dominican Republic, Indonesia, Jamaica, ...
متن کاملViolence as an obstacle to livelihood resilience in the context of climate change
Central America continues to be a violent region and is prone to increasing climatic shocks and environmental degradation. This paper explores the non-linear feedback loop between violence and climate shocks on livelihood resilience in El Salvador and Honduras, two countries experiencing high rates of violence. The nature of this complex feedback loop is examined by analysing case studies on th...
متن کاملPrivate Sector Activities in Disaster Risk Reduction Good Practices and Lessons Learned United Nations 2008
In 2000, former US President Bill Clinton asked the United States Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to implement Project Impact, a community-based mitigation initiative, in six Central American and Caribbean countries that were devastated by hurricanes Georges and Mitch. Project Impact had been used for a number of years in the United States to help communities prepare for natural disa...
متن کامل