Network for Cooperation in Integrated Water Resource Management for Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean N° 41

• Editorial remarks.-- Open discussion: Tariffs and subsidies: the current situation and trends in the region ; State-owned utilities and the flight from public law: challenges and trends ; Challenges and opportunities in access to water and sanitation in rural areas.-- Meetings: Proposals based on the Water and Environment Initiative consensuses.-- News of the Network: Peru’s Compensation Mechanisms for Ecosystem Services Act ; Ecuador’s Act on Water Resources and Water Use and Exploitation ; The environmental dynamics of groundwater in Mexico ; The Water Citizenship Programme in the province of Mendoza, Argentina.-- Internet and WWW News

An assessment of the performance of CARICOM extraregional trade agreements: An initial scoping exercise

Despite its active embrace of trade liberalization and the maintainance of relatively open economies, CARICOM trade performance both within the region and extraregionally has been poor. The nexus between bilateral Free Trade Agreements (FTAs), Partial Scope Agreements (PSAs) and preferential trade arrangements, which was intended to assist in compensating for the small size of domestic and regional markets, while providing an additional tier of trade and economic integration, has thus far failed to deliver its intended results. This paper makes this conclusion in assessing the performance of these extraregional trade agreements and sheds light on issues not often discussed.

Criador e criatura: os Estados Unidos e a Organização Mundial do Comércio (OMC)

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Envelhecimento e transtornos mentais mais comuns no idoso: representações sociais de cuidadores, profissionais de saúde e idosos de Botucatu

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

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.

Associação micorrízica arbuscular com genótipos de milho

Pós-graduação em Agronomia - FEIS

Do desenvolvimento sustentável às exceções não comerciais do Tratato de Marraqueche: o meio ambiente e a OMC

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

O acordo sobre agricultura na Organização Mundial do Comércio (OMC) e seus reflexos na defesa comercial agrícola no Brasil e nos países em desenvolvimento

Pós-graduação em Direito - FCHS

Estrutura trófica das assembléia de peixes da represa de Jurumirim, alto rio Paranapanema-SP, Brasil

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Estrutura trófica da comunidade de peixes de riachos da bacia do rio Itanhaém, litoral sul do estado de São Paulo, Brasil

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Levantamento de larvas de Cullicidae (Diptera) em diferentes criadouros no município de Santa Bárbara D'Oeste, SP

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Dieta e morfologia trófica de duas espécies simpátricas de peixes voadores (Hemidous microlepis e Hemiodus unimaculatus) na região do médio curso do rio Tocantins, na área de influência da UHE Luís Eduardo Magalhães - TO

Pós-graduação em Ciências Biológicas (Zoologia) - IBRC

Ictiofauna de lagoas marginais sazonalmente isoladas, rio Turvo, bacia do rio Grande, Alto Paraná, SP

Pós-graduação em Aquicultura - FCAV

O papel das argininas α-92 e α-141 na regulação da função de hemoglobinas por íons cloreto

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Consumo e custo de energia elétrica na cultura de citros irrigada por gotejamento e microaspersão, com três lâminas de água

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)