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Book (stand-alone)Temas actuales y emergentes para el análisis económico y la investigación de políticas
Volumen I: américa latina y el caribe
2004Also available in:
ESTA PUBLICACIÓN forma parte de la segunda edición de la serie CUREMIS (Temas actuales y emergentes para el análisis económico y la investigación de políticas). Esta segunda edición, de la cual forma parte el presente volumen sobre América Latina y el Caribe, consta de cinco volúmenes publicados por separado, que también incluyen las regiones de Asia, África, el Cercano Oriente y África del Norte, y Europa Central y Oriental y la Comunidad de Estados Independientes. En la presente publ icación se presentan cuatro estudios detallados sobre diversos temas actuales y emergentes del análisis económico de la alimentación, de la agricultura y del desarrollo rural en la región de América Latina y el Caribe. Estos cuatro estudios detallados abarcan: (i) La nueva institucionalidad para el desarrollo agrícola y rural en América Latina y el Caribe (de Javier A. Escobal); (ii) La evolución del papel de las mujeres en las economías rurales latinoamericanas (de Elizabeth Katz); (iii) Los instrumentos políticos innovadores y la evaluación en el desarrollo agrícola y rural en América Latina y el Caribe (de Benjamin Davis); y (iv) El espacio rural y la dimensión territorial del desarrollo en los países del MERCOSUR (de Jose Graziano da Silva). -
Book (stand-alone)Food, agriculture and rural development
Current and Emerging Issues for Economic Analysis and Policy Research
2001This publication contains four in-depth reviews on current and emerging issues in the economic analysis of food, agriculture and rural development, written by well-known scholars in the field. The selection of the issues for in-depth review was the result of a survey conducted among FAO staff involved in policy assistance activities in the main developing regions. Thus, the choice reflects their and, by extension, the policy-makers' perception as to the main research priorities in the economic a nalysis of agriculture, rural development, poverty and food security. A synthesis of the survey results is included as a chapter. The four in-depth reviews concern: (i) new trends in development thinking and implications for agriculture and rural development (by Simon Maxwell and Robin Heber Percy); (ii) causes, characteristics and alleviation strategies for rural poverty, with particular emphasis on Latin America (by Alberto Valdés and Johan A. Mistiaen); (iii) institutions, reform and agricult ural performance (by Pranab Bardhan); and (iv) migration and poverty issues (by J. Edward Taylor). -
MeetingFAO/WHO Regional Conference on Food Safety for the Americas and the Caribbean - FInal Report - San Jose (Costa Rica), 6-9 December 2005
Practical actions to promote food safety
2006Also available in:
Ensuring safe food is essential for the protection of human health and for improving the quality of life in all countries. The importance of safe food, whether domestically produced and consumed, imported or exported, is well known by the countries of the Americas and the Caribbean. An estimated 57,000 deaths have occurred in Latin America and the Caribbean as a result of food- and waterborne diarrhoea in 2004, but even this estimated burden likely greatly underestimates the true magnitude of th e food-borne disease problem in the region. Each food-borne disease outbreak results in a number of direct and indirect costs, in addition to the resultant human suffering. Furthermore, food safety is foundational to all other issues in the area of nutrition and food security, as well as international trade of foods. Food exports from the region are currently worth some US$66 billion, or 12% of the world's total food trade, and this figure could increase rapidly over the coming decades if food s afety and quality standards are improved. Despite these well-known and important reasons, many challenges remain to improving food safety in the region. The countries of the region recognize the importance of developing practical actions for capacity building to overcome these challenges and to promote food safety in the region. Accordingly, following the guidance of the FAO/WHO governing bodies, in line with the suggestions made by the participants at the first and second Joint FAO/WHO Global Fora of Food Safety Regulators (GF1-Morocco, January 2002 and GF2- Thailand, October 2004) and the kind invitation of the Government of Costa Rica, FAO and WHO jointly convened the first Regional Conference on Food Safety for the Americas and the Caribbean in San José, Costa Rica from 6 to 9 December 2005. The Conference brought together over 175 delegates from 32 member countries of the Americas and the Caribbean and observers from 14 international governmental and non-governmental organizatio ns to discuss food safety issues in the region, under the general theme of “Practical Actions to Promote Food Safety”. The participants at the Conference recommended a series of practical actions to the member countries and to FAO and WHO to strengthen food safety systems in the region. It was generally recognized by the participants that although the convening of the Conference itself was successful, its true success can only be measured by the degree of implementation of the recommended actio ns of the Conference and the improved safety of foods produced and consumed in the region.
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