LGBT+ media on the Internet: experiences of communication and information in Mexico

RAUL ANTHONY OLMEDO NERI (2023, [Artículo, Artículo])

Two digital LGBT+ media in Mexico are analyzed to understand the implications of their operation and their articulation with the informational and social needs of sex-gender populations. It starts from the communicational perspective to conceptualize these projects as exercises in technological appropriation but highlighting their empirical intersections with other analytical frameworks. Through the method of systematizing the experience, the trajectories of ANODIS and Seis Franjas Mx have been recovered; through semi-structured interviews conducted with their co-founders in February 2022, the reasons, horizons and challenges that these projects have faced are analyzed. The results show that the lack of LGBT+ content and representations in the media motivate the creation of these projects, which articulate a sense of collaboration and sociality with other users belonging to sex-gender communities. In addition, the people participating in these projects are part of the LGBT+ populations, becoming them producers and consumers of information that claim the gender-identity dimension in the content. Likewise, these initiatives are specified in the youth stage of their co-founders, which refers to rethinking the role of LGBT+ youth in the new forms of activism and socialization mediated by Internet. Finally, given the progressive formation of this area of ​​knowledge and the lack of consensus on its definition, it is proposed to name this interdisciplinary field of study as LGBT+ Communicational Studies, to show an epistemological perspective from communication and a Latin American ontological position.

Medios de comunicación Internet LGBT Jóvenes redes sociales de apoyo CIENCIAS SOCIALES CIENCIAS SOCIALES Media LGBT youth

ACOMPAÑAMIENTO JURÍDICO PARA LA DEFENSA DEL TERRITORIO EN YUCATÁN : ANÁLISIS DE LA INTERACCIÓN ENTRE UNA ASOCIACIÓN CIVIL Y GRUPOS DE ACTIVISMO DE BASE

María Gabriela Durán Valis (2023, [Tesis de maestría])

“En México, las luchas por la defensa del territorio en el contexto de la implementación de grandes proyectos productivos y de infraestructura involucran a numerosas organizaciones con identidades y tácticas diversas. Este estudio se basa en las teorías del framing o enmarcado en los movimientos sociales y la movilización legal para analizar cómo el acompañamiento jurídico proporcionado por la asociación civil Kanan Derechos humanos a dos grupos que se oponen a la operación de granjas porcícolas en Yucatán, Kanan Lu´um y La Esperanza de Sitilpech, ha transformado la interpretación de los conflictos. A través de una etnografía que incluye observación participante, entrevistas semiestructuradas y un grupo focal, se descubrió que la interacción entre estos actores ha generado un marco de interpretación que permite comprender los conflictos en términos de derechos indígenas legales y medioambiente. Las conclusiones indican que los efectos de las estrategias legales van más allá de su efectividad en los resultados de los juicios, ya que implican transformaciones que fortalecen la acción colectiva. Estos hallazgos desafían los supuestos que consideran a los pueblos indígenas como los únicos actores en las movilizaciones por la defensa del territorio, pues destacan la importancia de las alianzas entre diversos actores. También cuestionan las posturas tajantes sobre el papel del derecho en la movilización social y resaltan que sus resultados pueden ser matizados”.

Movimientos sociales - Aspectos políticos - México. Organizaciones civiles - Yucatán. Problemas sociales - Yucatán. Conflicto territorial - Yucatán. Tesis - Maestría en Antropología Social, CDMX. CIENCIAS SOCIALES SOCIOLOGÍA PROBLEMAS SOCIALES CONFLICTO SOCIAL Y ADAPTACIÓN CONFLICTO SOCIAL Y ADAPTACIÓN

Indicadores de integridad ecológica y salud ambiental para las cuencas de los ríos Yautepec y Cuautla, Morelos: primera etapa

Perla Alonso_EguíaLis JORGE LUIS IZURIETA DAVILA REBECA GONZALEZ VILLELA (2016, [Documento de trabajo])

Los objetivos del proyecto son: 1) Síntesis de la investigación que se ha realizado sobre monitoreo y biomonitoreo; 2) Análisis del cambio climático y del régimen de caudal en las cuencas; 3) Localización física y análisis de los factores de estrés al sistema, como descargas, calidad del agua y alteraciones hidrológicas generadas por modificaciones hidráulicas; 4) Localización de sitios de referencia para bioindicadores; y 5) Elaboración de un sistema de información geográfica.

Contaminación ambiental Ambiente acuático Indicadores ambientales Sistemas de información geográfica Río Yautepec Río Cuautla BIOLOGÍA Y QUÍMICA

MLN disease diagnostics, surveillance, MLN disease-free seed production, and MLN disease management

Suresh L.M. (2022, [Objeto de congreso])

CIENCIAS AGROPECUARIAS Y BIOTECNOLOGÍA DISEASES DISEASE MANAGEMENT SEED PRODUCTION MAIZE NECROSIS YIELD LOSSES ECONOMIC IMPACT SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS TRAINING

Identification and validation of stable quantitative trait loci for yield component traits in wheat

Yong Zhang Zhonghu He xianchun xia Yan Zhang Shuanghe Cao (2023, [Artículo])

Grain Number Per Spike KASP Markers QTL Mapping Thousand Grain Weight CIENCIAS AGROPECUARIAS Y BIOTECNOLOGÍA QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI MAPPING TRITICUM AESTIVUM GRAIN YIELD COMPONENTS MARKER-ASSISTED SELECTION

Using microsatellite data to estimate the persistence of field-level yield gaps and their drivers in smallholder systems

Balwinder-Singh Meha Jain (2023, [Artículo])

One way to meet growing food demand is to increase yields in regions that have large yield gaps, including smallholder systems. To do this, it is important to quantify yield gaps, their persistence, and their drivers at large spatio-temporal scales. Here we use microsatellite data to map field-level yields from 2014 to 2018 in Bihar, India and use these data to assess the magnitude, persistence, and drivers of yield gaps at the landscape scale. We find that overall yield gaps are large (33% of mean yields), but only 17% of yields are persistent across time. We find that sowing date, plot area, and weather are the factors that most explain variation in yield gaps across our study region, with earlier sowing associated with significantly higher yield values. Simulations suggest that if all farmers were able to adopt ideal management strategies, including earlier sowing and more irrigation use, yield gaps could be closed by up to 42%. These results highlight the ability of micro-satellite data to understand yield gaps and their drivers, and can be used to help identify ways to increase production in smallholder systems across the globe.

Yield Drivers Yield Mapping CIENCIAS AGROPECUARIAS Y BIOTECNOLOGÍA MICROSATELLITES YIELD GAP SMALLHOLDERS FOOD PRODUCTION YIELD INCREASES

Genetic effects of Rht-B1b and Rht-D1b dwarfing alleles on plant height and agronomic traits of bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) breeding lines

Zine El Abidine Fellahi Abderrahmane Hannachi Susanne Dreisigacker deepmala sehgal Hamenna Bouzerzour (2023, [Artículo])

Pleiotropic Effects Reduced Height Genes CIENCIAS AGROPECUARIAS Y BIOTECNOLOGÍA PLANT HEIGHT TRITICUM AESTIVUM YIELD COMPONENTS ALLELES BREEDING LINES

Catching-up with genetic progress: Simulation of potential production for modern wheat cultivars in the Netherlands

João Vasco Silva Frits K. Van Evert Pytrik Reidsma (2023, [Artículo])

Context: Wheat crop growth models from all over the world have been calibrated on the Groot and Verberne (1991) data set, collected between 1982 and 1984 in the Netherlands, in at least 28 published studies to date including various recent ones. However, the recent use of this data set for calibration of potential yield is questionable as actual Dutch winter wheat yields increased by 3.1 Mg ha-1 over the period 1984 – 2015. A new comprehensive set of winter wheat experiments, suitable for crop model calibration, was conducted in Wageningen during the growing seasons of 2013–2014 and of 2014–2015. Objective: The present study aimed to quantify the change of winter wheat variety traits between 1984 and 2015 and to examine which of the identified traits explained the increase in wheat yield most. Methods: PCSE-LINTUL3 was calibrated on the Groot and Verberne data (1991) set. Next, it was evaluated on the 2013–2015 data set. The model was further recalibrated on the 2013–2015 data set. Parameter values of both calibrations were compared. Sensitivity analysis was used to assess to what extent climate change, elevated CO2, changes in sowing dates, and changes in cultivar traits could explain yield increases. Results: The estimated reference light use efficiency and the temperature sum from anthesis to maturity were higher in 2013–2015 than in 1982–1984. PCSE-LINTUL3, calibrated on the 1982–1984 data set, underestimated the yield potential of 2013–2015. Sensitivity analyses showed that about half of the simulated winter wheat yield increase between 1984 and 2015 in the Netherlands was explained by elevated CO2 and climate change. The remaining part was explained by the increased temperature sum from anthesis to maturity and, to a smaller extent, by changes in the reference light use efficiency. Changes in sowing dates, biomass partitioning fractions, thermal requirements for anthesis, and biomass reallocation did not explain the yield increase. Conclusion: Recalibration of PCSE-LINTUL3 was necessary to reproduce the high wheat yields currently obtained in the Netherlands. About half of the reported winter wheat yield increase was attributed to climate change and elevated CO2. The remaining part of the increase was attributed to changes in the temperature sum from anthesis to maturity and, to a lesser extent, the reference light use efficiency. Significance: This study systematically addressed to what extent changes in various cultivar traits, climate change, and elevated CO2 can explain the winter wheat yield increase observed in the Netherlands between 1984 and 2015.

Light Use Efficiency Potential Yield CIENCIAS AGROPECUARIAS Y BIOTECNOLOGÍA CROP MODELLING LIGHT PHENOLOGY MAXIMUM SUSTAINABLE YIELD TRITICUM AESTIVUM WINTER WHEAT

El camino hacia la sociedad urbana agro industrial. El caso de la ciudad de Mérida de 1864 a 1930

Mercy Eugenia Sandoval Martiñon (2023, [Tesis de maestría])

“La presente tesis busca dar cuenta de los cambios que consolidaron a Mérida como una ciudad agro industrial en el periodo que va de 1864 a 1930. Para ello aborda aquellos factores y elementos sustanciales que transformaron la sociedad urbana durante el auge comercial henequenero de finales del siglo XIX y Principios del siglo XX. El texto se divide en capítulos temáticos que dotan de una vista panorámica par contemplar la sincronía de las conexiones atlánticas caribeñas con sus experiencias particulares y colectivas, la situación de dependencia comercial internacional de la península durante el siglo XIX, los incesantes cambios políticos que acompañaron la consolidación del auge comercial, las principales adecuaciones al mobiliario, ampliación y mejoramiento de los servicios urbanos, cambios en las habilidades, movilidad, higiene y telecomunicaciones, además de un crecimiento comercial e industrial centralizado que situó a Mérida como la principal urbe de la península de Yucatán cuando este era un lugar en disputa. Los parteaguas históricos que delimitan la temporalidad de la investigación son la planeación del primer plano topográfico de la ciudad (1864-1865) y la construcción del primer telégrafo de Sisal a Mérida (1865) y se cierra con la primera gran caída del henequén luego de la primera Guerra Mundial y la publicación de resultados del Quinto Censo de Población mexicano (1930). A través de la revisión de fuentes primarias y secundarias –actas de cabildo del H. Ayuntamiento de Mérida, periódicos, revistas y portuarios comerciales, notas y documentos empresariales privados, censos, fotografías, entre otros-, se comprobaron los procesos de crecimiento urbano como parte de un todo global y regional caribeño, así como la visualización espacial de los comercios e industria meridiana en los albores del siglo XX".

Yucatán - Urbanización - Siglos XIX-XX. Yucatán - Condiciones económicas - Historia - Siglos XIX-XX. Transporte urbano - Yucatán - Mérida - Siglos XIX-XX. Planteamiento regional - Yucatán - Mérida. Mérida (Yucatán) - Política económica - Siglos XIX-XX. Mérida (Yucatán) - Comercio - Siglos XIX-XX. Tesis - Maestría en Historia, Peninsular. CIENCIAS SOCIALES HISTORIA HISTORIA DE PAÍSES HISTORIA LOCAL HISTORIA LOCAL

The input reduction principle of agroecology is wrong when it comes to mineral fertilizer use in sub-Saharan Africa

Gatien Falconnier Marc Corbeels Frédéric Baudron Antoine Couëdel leonard rusinamhodzi bernard vanlauwe Ken Giller (2023, [Artículo])

Can farmers in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) boost crop yields and improve food availability without using more mineral fertilizer? This question has been at the center of lively debates among the civil society, policy-makers, and in academic editorials. Proponents of the “yes” answer have put forward the “input reduction” principle of agroecology, i.e. by relying on agrobiodiversity, recycling and better efficiency, agroecological practices such as the use of legumes and manure can increase crop productivity without the need for more mineral fertilizer. We reviewed decades of scientific literature on nutrient balances in SSA, biological nitrogen fixation of tropical legumes, manure production and use in smallholder farming systems, and the environmental impact of mineral fertilizer. Our analyses show that more mineral fertilizer is needed in SSA for five reasons: (i) the starting point in SSA is that agricultural production is “agroecological” by default, that is, very low mineral fertilizer use, widespread mixed crop-livestock systems and large crop diversity including legumes, but leading to poor soil fertility as a result of widespread soil nutrient mining, (ii) the nitrogen needs of crops cannot be adequately met solely through biological nitrogen fixation by legumes and recycling of animal manure, (iii) other nutrients like phosphorus and potassium need to be replaced continuously, (iv) mineral fertilizers, if used appropriately, cause little harm to the environment, and (v) reducing the use of mineral fertilizers would hamper productivity gains and contribute indirectly to agricultural expansion and to deforestation. Yet, the agroecological principles directly related to soil fertility—recycling, efficiency, diversity—remain key in improving soil health and nutrient-use efficiency, and are critical to sustaining crop productivity in the long run. We argue for a nuanced position that acknowledges the critical need for more mineral fertilizers in SSA, in combination with the use of agroecological practices and adequate policy support.

Manure Crop Yields Smallholder Farming Systems Environmental Hazards CIENCIAS AGROPECUARIAS Y BIOTECNOLOGÍA BIOLOGICAL NITROGEN FIXATION LEGUMES NUTRIENT BALANCE SOIL FERTILITY AGROECOLOGY YIELD INCREASES LITERATURE REVIEWS