Learn about the Latin American initiative to face climate change

Published 2020년 8월 19일

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A team of experts from Colombia, Bolivia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Peru, and the Dominican Republic are collaborating to identify new bean varieties that are drought-tolerant, with secondary attributes such as soil pathogen tolerance and biofortification. The initiative, backed by the Government of Korea, aims to replace commercial bean types and offer training to producing communities, particularly indigenous associations. The project will also develop a nursery with drought-tolerant materials and evaluate existing materials for potential use. The effort addresses concerns about food security and malnutrition in the region due to climatic variations and the expected increase in dry years, with bean shortage being a significant issue.

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Experts from Colombia, Bolivia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Peru and the Dominican Republic will form a team that will take on the challenge of searching for new varieties of beans, for each of the countries, to ensure that the production system can tolerate the rainfall deficits that often occur continuously in this region. In this way, the Latin American initiative to combat climate change begins with the participation of researchers and executives from the Colombian Agricultural Research Corporation Agrosavia, the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) and Biodiversity International, and which has the support of the Government of Korea through KoLFACI, an agency for research on issues of benefit to small producers in different regions of the world. (Read: Growing more with less water, a challenge for farmers) The objective is to obtain a drought tolerant variety, with secondary attributes such as tolerance to soil pathogens and ...

Source: MXContexto