Se presentan resultados de la investigacion en produccion y utilizacion de pastos y forrajes que indican que en condiciones relativamente buenas de fertilidad natural y de retencion de humedad de los suelos, representadas por la region del litoral ecuatoriano entre Quevedo y Santo Domingo, es posible obtener aumentos de peso diario en novillos de engorde del orden de 450 g/animal y, con cargas de hasta 3 animales, lograr producciones promedio de carne de hasta 1,5 kg/ha/dia, o sea mas de 500 kg/ha/ano, de modo que los animales alcanzan el peso de mercado antes de los 2,5 anos de edad; tambi

CRP 1.1 was presented at the 4th Fund Council Meeting in April 2011. CRP1.1 targets the poor and highly vulnerable populations of the dry areas. It aims to develop technology, policy and institutional innovations to improve livelihoods, using an integrated systems approach. The program focuses on four strategic research themes (SRTs ) which cut across five focus regions. This CRP was approved with conditions at the meeting and subsequently received unconditional approval of inception phase & conditional approval of overall program & budget on Nov. 9, 2011.