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.
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Honduras: The impact of COVID-19 and other shocks, and policy implications: Final report
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
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.
In 2019, almost 45 million immigrants lived in the United States, or about 13.7% of the total population
Haiti has been suffering for many decades a damaging combination of climate and natural disasters and political, economic, social, and health crises.
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 trabajo busca producir información actualizada y analizar el funcionamiento del mercado financiero agropecuario de Urugu
The exchange rate (ER) is one of the most important macroeconomic variables in the economy, defining the price of the domestic currency in relation to a foreign currency or currencies.
Among the important tasks of the UNFSS is identifying ways to finance the transformation of the global food system.
The country is facing a damaging combination of political, economic, social, and health crises, playing out amidst extreme uncertainty. The current situation is to a large extent the continuation of a very complex political and social history.
Due to the global pandemic generated by the COVID-19 the government of Honduras declared “state of emergency” in Feburay (“Estado de Emergencia en el Territorio Nacional a través del Decreto Ejecutivo Número PCM- 005-2020, 10 de febrero 2020).
As most countries in the world Guatemala has been affected by COVID-19. In January 2020 the country decreed travel bans from China, which were later expanded to other countries.
Regional developments
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.
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.
This paper briefly reviews different debates about approaches for paths out of poverty, considering several views, from the analysis of specific policies to more general or systemic considerations.
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
Drivers and disruptors shaping the future of agriculture and the food system in LAC: Climate change and trade tensions
Agri-food production remains vital to the economies in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).
Analisis de la institucionalidad agropecuaria en Chile: Una experiencia a considerar para Venezuela
Este documento se enfoca en la experiencia sobre leyes, políticas, regulaciones e instituciones en Chile, y las posibles lecciones para Venezuela.
A nivel mundial, América Latina es la región en desarrollo que presenta la más alta prevalencia de sobrepeso y obesidad (SOFI 2019).