La denominada "Paradoja de la agricultura" consiste en que si bien se reconoce verbalmente la importancia del sector, en la practica se lo regla en terminos de prioridades de inversion y aun de discusion de sus problemas. En 1995 el Instituto Internacional de Investigaciones sobre Politicas...

This analysis points to the need to rethink the structure of current agricultural support policies and programs in Central America and the Dominican Republic, given the heavy reliance on price supports and the steps to liberalize trade to be undertaken in accordance with the various trade...

In this technical note, the author discusses the implications of the rapid growth in agriculture in tropical Latin America and how new global and regional initiatives can support effective management of the ensuing environmental and social risks. The consequences of the tropical agricultural...

This report includes the proceedings of the Seminar on Climate Change and Severe Weather Events in the Caribbean and Asia, held in Barbados at the Grand Barbados Beach Resort on July 24-25, 2003. The seminar provided a forum in which experts from the Southeast Asian and Caribbean regions...

This report reviews major institutional developments and investment and human resource trends in public agricultural R&D in LAC from 1981 to 2006, drawing from a set of country briefs and a regional report for Central America prepared by the Agricultural Science and Technology Indicators (ASTI)...

This presentation discuses bird flu in two different related scenarios: as a disease that could affect the Poultry Sector and as a disease that could cause a Human Pandemic. The paper includes an analysis on what's at stake, risks and probabilities, costs, impacts and ways of prevention, as well...

This working paper empirically documents the size of (2) in the rural sector and investigates its consequences for rural development (agricultural growth, patterns of growth and rural poverty) for ten Latin American countries over 1985-2000. The paper provides econometric evidence suggesting...