Innovation spaces are often dominated by linear, top-down approaches, with the transfer of technology being seen as the solution to many problems rather than trying to understand which innovation processes people are engaging with themselves.

The COVID-19 pandemic has had profound effects on livelihoods and food security across rural populations worldwide.

This paper examines the continuing effects of COVID-19 and exposure to weather extremes on income, dietary, and migration outcomes in rural Guatemala.

Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs are widely implemented in developing countries but evidence of their medium- and long-term effects on educational achievements is still relatively scarce.

This paper considers different approaches to modelling the economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic/lockdown shocks.

Engaging burgeoning youth populations in developing country agriculture is seen as an important strategy toward effective, efficient, and sustainable food system transformation.

Farm size and land allocation are important factors in explaining lagging agricultural productivity in developing countries.

Agri-food production remains vital to the economies in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).

International migration has grown rapidly over the past two decades, at an annual rate of 2.4%, prompting increased interest in identifying the root causes of outmigration and the population groups more likely to emigrate.

Export taxes have been used in many countries. The 2007–2008 food price crisis shed light on export policies’ dangerous consequences for food security during periods of price spikes.

Aflatoxins affect the health of close to 70 percent of the population of the world through contaminated food.

While agriculture represents only 7 percent of total GDP (World Bank 2014) for Peru, it is not an insignificant economic sector.

This paper explores the impact of climate change on agriculture in Nicaragua using biophysical models and a bioeconomic model. It also examines differences in projections of key climate models.

This report finds that by 2050 the negative effect of climate change on agricultural productivity in El Salvador will be among the highest in the region.

This discussion paper evaluates the likely impact of climate change on agriculture in Costa Rica out to 2050.

Climate change is already affecting the global economy between catastrophic losses from extreme weather events to the subtler losses in agricultural productivity. In the decades to come, the effects of climate change will increase.

Climate change will be a significant challenge to farmers in Guatemala.

This discussion paper introduces a series of studies on the effects of climate change on agriculture in Central America and the Andean region.

Given the importance of agricultural R&D investment to sustain agricultural growth in the future, this study looks at the state of agricultural R&D investment in LAC, with the goal of identifying the level of underinvestment in the region.

Between 2001 and 2012, Latin America and the Caribbean’s (LAC) agriculture saw its best performance of the last 30 years. What were the implications of this growth for family agriculture (FA) in the region?