In early 2020, Guatemala reacted swiftly to the unfolding COVID-19 pandemic.
Search
Use quotation marks around a phrase or title for more accurate search results (example: “El Nino”). You may search by type, subtype, division, topic, and other facets by clicking the links in the left sidebar.
Your search found 20 results.
For more than 30 years, IFPRI’s research and collaboration in Latin America and the Caribbean have contributed to positive changes in the region, including enhancing the culture of accountability and generating groundbreaking evidence that has str
The 193 individual country profiles capture the status and progress of all UN Member States, and the 80+ indicators include a wealth of information on child, adolescent and adult anthropometry and nutritional status, in addition to intervention co
The 193 individual country profiles capture the status and progress of all UN Member States, and the 80+ indicators include a wealth of information on child, adolescent and adult anthropometry and nutritional status, in addition to intervention co
supplementary material
Tracking financial allocations to nutrition: Guatemala’s experience
book chapter
Introduction and overview [in Agricultural commercialization, economic development, and nutrition]
Why should there be a book about the commercialization of subsistence agriculture, economic development, and nutrition? There are two compelling resasons.
book chapter
Agricultural processing enterprises: Development potentials and links to the smallholder
In countries where farming and fishing are major productive activities, processing enterprises can have a strategic developmental role. Infrastructural, institutional, and contractural issues arise around them.
Agricultural commercialization, economic development, and nutrition are linked with one another. Policies influence the strength and direction of these linkages and welfare outcomes.
book chapter
Commercialization of agriculture and food security: Development strategy and trade policy issues
The choice between subsistence food crops, on the one hand, and cash crops, especially nonfood cash crops predominantly meant for exports, on the other hand, is a subject of considerable debate among policy makers as well as development specialist
Why should there be a book about the commercialization of subsistence agriculture, economic development, and nutrition? There are two compelling reasons.
One of the most contentious issues in the cash crop/food crop debate revolves around the impact of commercialization of agriculture on the health and nutritional status of women and children/ This chaper examines the effects of commercialization o
The commercialization of agricultur has, in many diverse circumstances, led both to an increase in household income and to changes in the way household resources are organized to earn that income, Have these changes meant that food intakes are mor
book chapter
Conceptual framework
In this chapter, the basic theoretical relationships and definitional issues related to the commercialization of agriculture and described. Simply speaking, cash crops can be defined as crops for sale.
The three chapters in Part III report synthesis is findings from the microlevel IFPRI research in The Gambia, Guatemala, Kenya, the Philippines, and Rwanda, as well as from the other case studies presented in Part V.
The distributional benefits of commercialization of agriculture, access to commercialization opportunities, and sharing of commercialization risks are functions of institutional arrangements.
Export-oriented agricultural production has a log tradition in Guatemala that has resulted in a highly dualistic agricultural sector.