Gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls is reflected across policy priorities at global and national levels. Sustainable Development Goal 5 (SDG 5) seeks to achieve gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls.
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project paper
Climatic stresses and rural emigration in Guatemala
International migration is a recurrent and growing phenomenon and a large share of emigrants originate from rural areas. This study examines the association between climatic stresses and rural emigration in Guatemala.
La igualdad de género y el empoderamiento de las mujeres y niñas se ve reflejado en distintas prioridades de políticas a nivel global y local.
Adolescent and young women face grave nutrition challenges, but limited evidence exists on solutions to improve their diets.
Climate change affects men and women differently, and pre-existing gender disparities may worsen. We use a gendered computable general equilibrium model linked with microsimulations to assess the distributive effects of climate change in Bolivia.
As in other Latin American countries, agricultural activities in Guatemala contribute with 32% of the total employment (65% in rural areas), but only one in every ten individuals employed in these activities are women.
Background
Yellow fleshed potatoes biofortified with iron have been developed through conventional breeding but the bioavailability of the iron is unknown.
This country factsheet presents key agricultural R&D indicators in a highly accessible visual display.
This country factsheet presents key agricultural R&D indicators in a highly accessible visual display.
Esta ficha técnica de país presenta indicadores claves de I + D agropecuarios en una presentación visual muy accesible.
Esta ficha técnica de país presenta indicadores claves de I + D agropecuarios en una presentación visual muy accesible.
Desde el inicio de la pandemia del COVID-19, los productores agrícolas de Guatemala han afrontado múltiples restricciones de movimiento tanto locales como nacionales, así como también disrupciones en las cadenas de valor agrícolas.
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Guatemalan farmers have endured multiple challenges brough about by national and local restrictions to movement as well as disruptions in agricultural value chains.
This factsheet presents recent data on the agricultural research system of Peru, primarily focusing on key financial, human resource, institutional, and output indicators, while also highlighting relevant trends, challenges, and institutional chan
This factsheet presents recent data on the agricultural research system of Ecuador, primarily focusing on key financial, human resource, institutional, and output indicators, while also highlighting relevant trends, challenges, and institutional c
This factsheet presents recent data on the agricultural research system of Guatemala, primarily focusing on key financial, human resource, institutional, and output indicators, while also highlighting relevant trends, challenges, and institutional
journal article
Agricultural commercialization and nutrition: Evidence from smallholder coffee farmers
Agricultural commercialization, or the transition from growing crops for home consumption to growing some or all crops for sale, enables farmers to earn cash income that they can use to buy food in markets.
discussion paper
Conditional cash transfers and high school attainment: Evidence from a large-scale program in the Dominican Republic
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.
Women’s decisionmaking indicators are widely used in social science research, though insufficient attention is given to measurement issues.
Explores key emerging issues facing developing-country agriculture today, from rapid urbanization to rural transformation to climate change