Informe al congreso 1998-2002: reactivación y modernización con visión de futuro

Con este Plan se busca llegar a las diferentes regiones y renglones de la producción agropecuaria, para brindarles capacitación, asesoría y acompañamiento en aspectos como el mercado, la organizaci6n empresarial, 10s sistemas productivos y el financiamiento. En el Plan se articulan 10s diferentes programas e instrumentos de la política sectorial orientados hacia 10s productores de economía campesina, con el fin de lograr acciones integrales de impact0 que contribuyeran a aumentar su nivel de ingresos, de empleo y en general, alcanzar una mejor calidad de vida para 10s campesinos colombianos. Este Plan est6 compuesto por varios programas. Uno de ellos, son las Alianzas Productivas, con las cuales creamos relaciones empresariales entre pequeños productores agropecuarios, comercializadores, industriales y proveedores de insumos, para desarrollar proyectos a mediano y largo plazo donde todos aportan, todos arriesgan y todos ganan.Con este Plan se busca llegar a las diferentes regiones y renglones de la producción agropecuaria, para brindarles capacitación, asesoría y acompañamiento en aspectos como el mercado, la organizaci6n empresarial, 10s sistemas productivos y el financiamiento. En el Plan se articulan 10s diferentes programas e instrumentos de la política sectorial orientados hacia 10s productores de economía campesina, con el fin de lograr acciones integrales de impact0 que contribuyeran a aumentar su nivel de ingresos, de empleo y en general, alcanzar una mejor calidad de vida para 10s campesinos colombianos. Este Plan est6 compuesto por varios programas. Uno de ellos, son las Alianzas Productivas, con las cuales creamos relaciones empresariales entre pequeños productores agropecuarios, comercializadores, industriales y proveedores de insumos, para desarrollar proyectos a mediano y largo plazo donde todos aportan, todos arriesgan y todos ganan

Informe al congreso 2000-2001

En virtud de lo dispuesto en el inciso tercero del artículo 208 de la Constitución Política de Colombia y en el artículo 96 de la Ley 101 de 1993, 'Ley General de Desarrollo Agropecuario y Pesquero" presento a consideración del Honorable Congreso de la República el informe sobre el desarrollo de las acciones adelantadas por el Ministerio de Agricultura y Desarrollo Rural y por sus entidades adscritas y vinculadas durante el período comprendido entre el 20 de julio de 2000 y el 19 de Julio de 2001. Para nadie es un secreto que durante la década de los años noventa, el sector agropecuario experimentó los efectos de un cambio de modelo económico que, aunque necesario, no consideró en su real dimensión que el objetivo central de la política económica consiste en elevar el nivel de bienestar de la población, y se concentró en buscar el equilibrio de los indicadores macroeconómicos, bajo un entorno internacional desfavorabl

Breastfeeding Media Coverage and Beliefs During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Mexico: Implications for Breastfeeding Equity.

Abstract Background: Breastfeeding offers short- and long- term health benefits to mothers and children and constitutes a priority for public health. Evidence shows that SARS-CoV-2 is not likely to be transmitted via breastmilk. Moreover, antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 are presumably contained in breastmilk of mothers with history of COVID-19 infection or vaccination. Direct breastfeeding is the preferred infant feeding option during the pandemic, but conflicting practices have been adopted, which could widen existing disparities in breastfeeding. This study aims to describe how was information about breastfeeding communicated in Mexican media during the pandemic and assess Mexican adults’ beliefs regarding breastfeeding among mothers infected with COVID-19.Methods: A retrospective content analysis of media coverage on breastfeeding in Mexico between March 1 and September 24, 2020, excluding advertisements, was done. For the content analysis, both a sentiment analysis and an analysis based on strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats for breastfeeding promotion were performed. Also, we incorporated a descriptive analysis from the July 2020 wave of the ENCOVID-19 survey, which included questions on beliefs about breastfeeding. This information was stratified by gender, age, and socioeconomic status.Results: 1014 publications on breastfeeding were identified in internet, newspapers, TV, and magazines. Most information was published during World Breastfeeding Week, celebrated in August. Based on the sentiment analysis, 57.2% of all information was classified as positive, and based on the SWOT analysis, most information was classified either as strengths or opportunities for breastfeeding promotion. However, the ENCOVID-19 data showed that 67.3% of people living in households with children under 3 years of age believe that mothers with COVID-19 should not breastfeed, and 19.8% stated that they simply didn’t know. These beliefs showed differences both by gender and by socioeconomic status.Conclusions: While the Mexican government endorsed the recommendations on breastfeeding during the COVID-19 pandemic, communication of those messages was sporadic, inconstant and unequal across types of media. Moreover, there were also negative messages for breastfeeding circulating on the media. There continues to be a widespread notion that mothers with COVID-19 should not breastfeed and, due to differences on beliefs by socioeconomic status, health inequities could be exacerbated.</jats:p

Aberrations of Genomic Imprinting in Glioblastoma Formation

In human glioblastoma (GBM), the presence of a small population of cells with stem cell characteristics, the glioma stem cells (GSCs), has been described. These cells have GBM potential and are responsible for the origin of the tumors. However, whether GSCs originate from normal neural stem cells (NSCs) as a consequence of genetic and epigenetic changes and/or dedifferentiation from somatic cells remains to be investigated. Genomic imprinting is an epigenetic marking process that causes genes to be expressed depending on their parental origin. The dysregulation of the imprinting pattern or the loss of genomic imprinting (LOI) have been described in different tumors including GBM, being one of the earliest and most common events that occurs in human cancers. Here we have gathered the current knowledge of the role of imprinted genes in normal NSCs function and how the imprinting process is altered in human GBM. We also review the changes at particular imprinted loci that might be involved in the development of the tumor. Understanding the mechanistic similarities in the regulation of genomic imprinting between normal NSCs and GBM cells will be helpful to identify molecular players that might be involved in the development of human GBM

Impact of Race on the Severity of Acute Episodes of Asthma and Adrenergic Responsiveness

Rationale: African Americans acutely ill with asthma come to emergency departments more frequently and are admitted to hospital more often than whites but the reasons are unclear