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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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.
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 Belize, primarily focusing on key financial, human resource, institutional, and output indicators, while also highlighting relevant trends, challenges, and institutional ch
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
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.
Género y seguridad alimentaria en Honduras
El presente estudio, con el respaldo del Servicio Holandés de Cooperación al Desarrollo (SNV), obtuvo información sobre una serie de temas relativos a la seguridad alimentaria y la nutrición, el género y el acceso al agua en ciertos caseríos espec
Gender and food security in Honduras
This study, supported by the Netherlands Development Organisation (SNV), obtained information on a range of topics associated with food security and nutrition, gender, and water access in selected villages of Honduras.
Can conditional cash transfers improve maternal health care? Evidence from El Salvador's Comunidades Solidarias Rurales program
There is growing evidence on positive human capital impacts of large, poverty‐focused cash transfer programs. However, evidence is inconclusive on whether cash transfer programs affect maternal health outcomes, and if so, through which pathways.
To maximize impacts and cost-effectiveness of development assistance programs, decisionmakers should consider increasing the length of investments.
Food-assisted maternal and child health and nutrition (FA-MCHN) programs are widely used to reduce household food insecurity and maternal and child undernutrition in low- and middle-income countries.
Cost studies were conducted in conjunction with the impact evaluations of these two PM2A (Preventing Malnutrition in Children under 2 Approach) programs to provide information on the total cost of the programs and estimate the cost of alternative
This report presents the findings from the impact evaluation of Programa Comunitario Materno Infantil de Diversificación Alimentaria (PROCOMIDA) (Community Maternal and Child Food Diversification Program), a Preventing Malnutrition in Children und
Esta publicación fue desarrollada con fondos del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo y de la Corporación Brasilera para la Investigación Agropecuaria.
This report assesses trends in investments, human resource capacity, and research outputs in agricultural R&D.