This article examines the short‐term effects of the COVID‐19 lockdown on food security and nutrition in rural Guatemala.
SARS-CoV-19, the virus that causes COVID-19, is a global pandemic that has placed unprecedented stress on national economies, food systems and healthcare resources in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).
This paper considers different approaches to modelling the economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic/lockdown shocks.
High kernel-zinc maize varieties are available to consumers in several countries in Latin America to contribute to increase the zinc intake of their populations.
Engaging burgeoning youth populations in developing country agriculture is seen as an important strategy toward effective, efficient, and sustainable food system transformation.
As COVID-19 vaccines are becoming available, governments will need to assess the number and location of the most vulnerable people within their populations.
As COVID-19 vaccines are becoming available, governments will need to assess the number and location of the most vulnerable people within their populations.
In anticipation of the development of a safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine—the distribution of which will be a complex and sensitive issue—governments will need to assess the number and location of the most vulnerable people within their populati
Women’s decisionmaking indicators are widely used in social science research, though insufficient attention is given to measurement issues.
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.
Explores key emerging issues facing developing-country agriculture today, from rapid urbanization to rural transformation to climate change
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
Agricultural Development: New Perspectives in a Changing World is the first comprehensive exploration of key emerging issues facing developing-country agriculture today, from rapid urbanization to rural transformation to climate change.
The world has been changing rapidly, and major issues surrounding agriculture have evolved as well. In fact, over the last several decades major shifts have occurred in the thinking on and practice of agricultural development.
This note provides an overview of investment trends in global agricultural research to the year 2016, which revises ASTI’s prior global update (Beintema et al. 2012).
Este documento es parte de una consultoría del IFPRI con el Banco Mundial para apoyar al gobierno de Argentina, y en particular al Ministerio de Agricultura, Ganadería y Pesca (MAGyP), en el análisis de los derechos o impuestos de exportación (DEX
Venezuela está sufriendo una crisis política, económica y social sin precedentes. La economía ha estado cayendo por 7 años consecutivos, y con los estimados de -35% en 2019 y -25% en 2020 sería solamente una cuarta parte del valor de 2013.