América Latina y el Caribe es un importante protagonista en la producción y el comercio de productos agroalimentarios, ya que es el principal exportador neto de estos productos.

Latin America and the Caribbean is the world's largest net exporting region for agrifood products, yet the region faces immediate challenges to food security.

Two previous reports (Díaz Bonilla, Laborde and Piñeiro, 2021, and Diaz-Bonilla, Flores, Paz, Piñeiro, and Zandstra, 2021) covered the evolution and impacts of the pandemic on food systems in Honduras until the time of their writings (which togeth

The United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS), held in September of 2021, aimed to move food systems transformation to the top of the global policy agenda.

In 2019, almost 45 million immigrants lived in the United States, or about 13.7% of the total population

Haiti has been suffering for many decades a damaging combination of climate and natural disasters and political, economic, social, and health crises.

Food security has been invoked for a variety of trade policy interventions and in many trade negotiations This chapter focuses on three trade topics for which food security concerns have been mentioned as the rationale (or at least part of it) for

The context of international food trade has changed considerably since the last Ministerial Conference (MC11) in 2017. Significant progress has not been achieved in many important issues that are still pending on the organization’s agenda. 

The book has been prepared by authors from different international organizations – including FAO, IFPRI, UNCTAD and ECLAC, as well as legislators and academics from prestigious Latin American universities – seeking to foster reflections for the Gl

El sector agropecuario y en un sentido más amplio, los sistemas alimentarios, están en un proceso de ajuste y transformación impulsado por factores estructurales que se tratan de analizar en este trabajo.

Este trabajo busca producir información actualizada y analizar el funcionamiento del mercado financiero agropecuario de Urugu

Amid concerns about the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Guatemala, in January 2020 decreed travel bans from China, which were later expanded to other countries.

The exchange rate (ER) is one of the most important macroeconomic variables in the economy, defining the price of the domestic currency in relation to a foreign currency or currencies.

Este artículo recoge una serie de recomendaciones y experiencias desde la banca multilateral, en particular de la Corporación Interamericana de Inversiones en el período 2005-2013 para la financiación de proyectos regionales y de la Banca de Desar

This article collects a series of recommendations and experiences from multilateral banks, in particular from the Inter-American Investment Corporation in the period 2005-2013 for the financing of regional projects and the Development Bank in Mexi

Among the important tasks of the UNFSS is identifying ways to finance the transformation of the global food system.

As the coronavirus pandemic reached every corner of the world, countries responded rapidly with an array of policies to stop it, and then with social and economic policies to protect food security, incomes, and livelihoods.

Un tema recurrente, y aún pendiente de atender, en la agenda pública agraria y rural en el Perú, y en buena parte de América Latina y el Caribe (ALC), ha sido el de las finanzas, y sobre todo del crédito con fines productivos.