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.
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 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.
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
Agri-food production remains vital to the economies in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).
A nivel mundial, América Latina es la región en desarrollo que presenta la más alta prevalencia de sobrepeso y obesidad (SOFI 2019).
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.
The percentage of population suffering from overweight or obesity is increasing worldwide, both in developed and developing countries, and for all subpopulations of age and gender (although data on the incidence of those problems seem to differ so
IFPRI e IICA, con el apoyo del Secretariado de la Red para la Inversión y la Financiación de la Agricultura en Pequeña Escala (SAFIN en inglés) con sede en FIDA, organizaron el 6 y 7 de mayo de 2019 en la sede del IICA en San José, Costa Rica, un
This study presents an economy-wide analysis for Guatemala, considering several tax options on sugar and SSB and then tracing their differentiated general economic effects.
Este documento se estructura de la siguiente manera. La primera sección describe las preocupaciones que motivan esta propuesta en un contexto histórico amplio de éxitos y fracasos asociados al desarrollo financiero rural.