This paper evaluates four dimensions of food security (ie availability, sovereignty, stability and consumption and biological utilization). Finding gaps for food groups: fruits and vegetables, proteins and carbohydrates, from comparing the supply of each product with minimum nutritional...

This paper evaluates four dimensions of food security (ie availability, sovereignty, stability and consumption and biological utilization). Finding gaps for food groups: fruits and vegetables, proteins and carbohydrates, from comparing the supply of each product with minimum nutritional...

El presente estudio está orientado a cuantificar los efectos económicos del súbito aumento de los precios de alimentos en los hogares peruanos en el período 2007-2008 e identificar a los hogares en situación de vulnerabilidad alimentaria. El estudio se enmarca en una serie de recientes...

The Colombian agrarian sector suffered a significant transformation of its structure of production during the nineties. A whole range of crops and productive activities that were supported in previous decades by commercial protection policies and different types of subsidies collapsed, while...

We analyze the quinoa sector situation and prospects in Bolivia, based on both secondary and primary information sources (i.e. surveys of producers and interviews to key actors). The quinoa sector has sustainability problems in production, market shares and price volatility. However, this grain...

How did the wine world market perform in the last decades in terms of production, international trade, prices and consumption? What happened with Argentina's wine industry in the same period? To answer these questions, we categorize countries and analyze FAO statistics from 1961 on. We verify...

Spanish Abstract:Las reformas energéticas en México y la búsqueda de nuevas fuentes de energía que no dañen el ambiente han generado cambios en la economía de México. La posible solución para disminuir la emisión de gases efecto invernadero es el uso del bioetanol a partir de maíz,...

Spanish Abstract: El objetivo de la presente investigación es identificar y analizar los factores que pueden ser consideradas de gestión ambiental en la micro y pequeñas empresas procesadoras de alimentos ubicadas en el municipio de Puebla, así como determinar qué acciones están...