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.

Recent global crises have led to diverse impacts across the world’s low- and middle-income regions, reflecting local conditions and differing policy responses.

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

Our 2020 report on responses to COVID-19 discussed national pandemic response plans in developing countries (Díaz-Bonilla 2020).

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

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.

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

The agriculture sector in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is certainly not homogeneous, covering a variety of very different agroecological and climate zones, along a south-north axis.1 There are three large agricultural producers: Brazil (c

Thirty years have elapsed since the fall of communist governments in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. The collapse of political structures took with it regimes of highly administered management of agri-food systems.

Agriculture and food systems in Latin America and the Caribbean Region (LAC) are rightfully recognized as among the most successful on the planet: they have fed a fast-growing population, facilitated economic development, enabled urbanization, gen

América Latina es el continente que se ha movilizado en forma consistente en cuanto al desarrollo, la adopción e implementación de estrategias de protección social que cubren aspectos de salud, nutrición, educación y trabajo entre otros factores d

El nuevo Gobierno de la Argentina lanzó a principios del año 2020 el Plan Argentina contra el Hambre (PACH) (Res.

These historically unprecedented times require unconventional responses.

Building inclusive food systems to help reach the goal of ending hunger and malnutrition globally will require innovation and investment at the regional and country levels.