Bilateralism and regionalism: re-establishing the primacy of multilateralism a Latin American and Caribbean perspective

Includes bibliography

Expenditures, investment and financing for sustainable development in Trinidad and Tobago

Includes bibliography

The contributions of applied anthropology to peasant development

Includes bibliography

Non-agricultural rural employment in Central America

Includes bibliography

Report of the Workshop on Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounting

Includes bibliography

Agricultura, desarrollo rural, tierra, sequía y desertificación: obstáculos, lecciones y desafíos para el desarrollo sostenible de América Latina y el Caribe

Incluye Bibliografía

Perspectivas de la agricultura y del desarrollo rural en las Américas: una mirada hacia América Latina y el Caribe, 2014

En este quinto número del documento “Perspectivas de la agricultura y del desarrollo rural en las Américas”, la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), la Oficina Regional para América Latina y el Caribe de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO) y el Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA) analizan las tendencias y perspectivas de la agricultura y su contexto (macroeconómico y sectorial), y dedican una sección para examinar en detalle las características, retos y potencialidades de la agricultura familiar en América Latina y el Caribe. El informe concluye que, a pesar de las serias limitaciones productivas, comerciales y socioeconómicas que experimenta la agricultura familiar en la región, esta entraña un gran potencial para aumentar la oferta de alimentos, así como para reducir el desempleo y sacar de la pobreza y de la desnutrición a la población más vulnerable de las zonas rurales de la región.

Una promesa y un suspirar: políticas de innovación para PYMES en América Latina

A partir del levantamiento realizado en cuatro países de la región (Argentina, Colombia, México y Uruguay), el presente documento examina las principales reformas y políticas de innovación y pymes realizadas en los últimos años. De este análisis se desprende la escasa vinculación que existe entre estos ámbitos de acción, lo que, dados los rets que enfrenta el mundo de hoy, deben ser vinculados más estrechamente con la sustentabilidad ambiental.

Social Panorama of Latin America 1993

Incluye Bibliografía

Gobernanza del gas natural no convencional para el desarrollo sostenible de América Latina y el Caribe: experiencias generales y tendencias en la Argentina, el Brasil, Colombia y México

El presente estudio tiene por objeto relacionar la problemática del desarrollo sostenible con la explotación de gas natural no convencional a nivel general y en específico para los países seleccionados

CEPAL Review no.25

The Latin American economy during 1984: a preliminary overview / Enrique V. Iglesias / The transnational corporations and Latin America’s international trade / Eugenio Lahera. -- The subsidiary role of direct foreign investment in industrialization: the Colombian manufacturing sector / Michael Mortimore. -- Stabilization and adjustment policies in the southern cone, 1974-1983 / Joseph Ramos. -- Rural development and urban food programming / Manuel Figueroa L. -- Dependent societies and crisis in Latin America: the challenges of social and political transformation / Germán W. Rama and Enzo Faletto. -- Culture, discourse (self-expression) and social development in the Caribbean / Jean Casimir. -- Legal aspects of the Latin American public debt: relations with the commercial banks / Gonzalo Biggs.

Agricultural transformation and Gender considerations in Caribbean Economics

The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of the gender and social disparities existing in the agricultural and rural sector in Caribbean economies. In this context, agricultural transformation as occasioned by the dismantling of preferential trading arrangements is analysed to identify the most relevant gender discriminatory measures in the current agricultural development policy and programmes. The analysis seeks to provide the basis for enhancing understanding among policy makers, planners and rural development practitioners of the gender and social dimension involved in the formulation of agricultural policy and more specifically in relation to the new policy and institutional arrangements for agriculture in the region. The paper also provides insights regarding what changes should take place to create an enabling environment for more gender-based approaches to policy-making and strategic planning in agricultural development and trade in the Caribbean. The methodology centred on the review of secondary sources that provide references on the new challenges, opportunities and constraints faced by the agricultural sector, in particular small farmers, in the context of globalization and agriculture transformation. Much of the literature for this assignment was obtained from FAO Headquarters in Rome and the FAO Subregional Office in Barbados, as well as the OECS Secretariat in St. Lucia. In the process of the review exercise, due consideration was given to changes in agricultural production patterns, resources allocation and rural livelihoods. Efforts to examine the most relevant policy measures and mechanisms in-place in support to agricultural development in the region were constrained, in the main, by the absence of gender disaggregated data. Documentation as regards the situation of women and men in relation to agricultural labour, rural income and food security situation in regions were limited. The use of the internet served to bridge the communication gap between countries and institutions. The preliminary draft of the paper was presented and discussed at the FAO/ECLAC/UNIFEM regional workshop on mainstreaming gender analysis in agriculture and trade policies, for Caribbean countries, in November 2003. The second draft of the paper was informed by comments from the workshop and additional information acquired through field visits to Barbados, St. Kitts and St. Vincent in March 2004. The three day visits to each of these three countries entailed a review/appreciation of the resource, constraints and institutional capacities for gender mainstreaming within the agricultural sector at the national level. This included visits to some of the major agricultural projects and interviews with farmers (where feasible) in respect of their perspective of the current situation of the agricultural sector and the viability of their farm enterprises. As well, meetings were held with relevant/available officials within the respective ministries of agriculture to discern the gender consideration as regards agricultural policy and planning at the country level. The internet was invaluable to the task of sourcing supplementary information to satisfy the aim of the paper; in respect of the identification of concrete policy measures and actions to formulate and develop more gender/social-responsive agricultural development policies. The final revision, though thwart with resource and communication constraints, was ultimately completed in compliance with the structure and approach proposed in the terms of references for this FAO/ECLAC assignment.