Landscaping the Agritech Ecosystem for Smallholder Farmers in Latin America and the Caribbean

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Panos Loukos ◽  
Leslie Arathoon
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Smallholder Farmers ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Agriculture Sector ◽  
Digital Interventions ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Digital Agriculture ◽  
Digital Disruption

Agriculture is an important source of employment in Latin America and the Caribbean. In rural areas, some 54.6 per cent of the labour force is engaged in agricultural production. Although much of the region shares the same language and cultural heritage, the structure and scale of the agriculture sector varies significantly from country to country. Based on the review of 131 digital agriculture tools, this report, prepared by GSMA and IDB Lab, provides a market mapping and landscape analysis of the most prominent cases of digital disruption. It highlights some of the major trends observed in five digital agriculture use cases, identifies opportunities for digital interventions and concludes with recommendations for future engagement that could deliver long-term, sustainable economic and social benefits for smallholder farmers.

Romancing the Stone: Academe’s Illusive Template for African Diaspora Studies

1996 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 38-39
Author(s):  
Melina Pappademos
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
African Diaspora ◽  
Graduate School ◽  
Diaspora Studies ◽  
North Americans ◽  
History Of ◽  
America South ◽  
Research Plan ◽  
The Caribbean

I began graduate school in 1994 to study the history of American peoples of African descent; I saw important similarities between their cultures and their resistance struggles and sought to develop a comparative project. However, as I began casting my long term research plan— which was to compare Afro-Cubans and Afro-North Americans—I discovered and uncovered many stumbling blocks. The primary one was that academe grouped African descended people by their European and colonially derived relationships (ex: North America, Latin America, South America, and the Caribbean) and not by their Black derived positions. I may have been naive but this seemed problematic to me.

International Remittances to Latin America and the Caribbean amid the COVID-19 Crisis: A Push for Digitalization?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Verónica Frisancho ◽  
Eric Parrado
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Temporary Increase ◽  
International Remittances ◽  
Brick And Mortar ◽  
Initial Drop ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Transfer Services

Remittances constitute a significant safety net for millions of households in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Consequently, changes in international transfers can be a crucial agent of transmission of the COVID-19 induced economic crisis from richer to poorer nations and from urban to rural areas. Relying on data on queries to the search engine Google between December 2018 and July 2021, this study looks at the evolution of demand for in-person versus digital international transfer services and evaluates if take-up rates of different types of service providers trace the initial drop and subsequent rebound of remittances. The recovery of remittances was accompanied by a modest and temporary increase in the interest in digital mechanisms for sending money to home countries, which is accompanied by lower demand for brick-and-mortar service providers.

scholarly journals Attitudes Toward Intimate Partner Violence Against Women in Latin America and the Caribbean

SAGE Open ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 215824401987106
Author(s):  
Marisa Bucheli ◽  
Maximo Rossi
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Country Level ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Partner Violence Against Women

We analyze individual and country factors that explain attitudes toward intimate partner violence against women (IPVAW) in Latin America and the Caribbean. Most patterns at individual level are similar to the international ones: for example, approval of IPVAW is higher among women and people in rural areas or in disadvantaged socio-economic situations. The most novel contribution of our work is the study of the variables at country level: approval of IPVAW increases with poverty, fertility rate, and equal gender outcomes. It decreases with Internet access and, less robustly, with the time elapsed since the enactment of women’s suffrage.

Inequality progress key to aid Chile long-term growth

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Income Distribution ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Pension Reform ◽  
Economic Inequality ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Economic Commission ◽  
The Caribbean

Subject Social and economic inequality. Significance After its progress in reducing poverty, highlighted by a recent report of the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Chile faces the complex and socially divisive challenge of tackling its deep-rooted economic and social inequalities. Impacts The key problem in addressing poverty will be its concentration in specific groups of the population. Some of the government’s planned reforms, such as pension reform, would help to improve income distribution. The outcome of the government’s Country Undertaking initiative will depend on its ability to implement the resulting ideas.

scholarly journals Dinamika Ketenagakerjaan pada Wilayah Pedesaan Lahan Kering di Indonesia

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bambang Winarso
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
The Other ◽  
Dry Land ◽  
Employment Dynamics ◽  
Agriculture Sector ◽  
Central Java ◽  
Transport Services ◽  
Job Opportunities ◽  
Labour Participation

Indonesian Population increasing, the other side of the jobs that are limited, it is problems. As a country, agraris reality shows that availability of jobs was largely in agriculture sector. Inhabitant of indonesia development increasing while on the other side of the jobs that are limited, it is still problems. Its reality shows that availability of jobs was largely in agriculture sector. This was demonstrated by the source of livelihood largely from agriculture. As we know that in a domicile of agricultural labors being in the region with agroekosystem dryland which is sometimes tinged by the marginal land. Relating to employment been trying to highlight structure labour participation, especially in terms of level good chance and labour force, according to age, level of education, and types of work as well as people in rural areas, mobilization especially in village with agroekosistem dry land. The provinces that being the location where research is Lampung, South Sulawesi East Java, Central Java and West Java. The result showed that viewed from accessibility, job opportunities then accessibility of labor in this area use hasnt job opportunities outside agriculture. If the employment opportunities, the work got generally the same work often they do in the provenance as labor and transport services. Keywords: employment dynamics, rural areas and dryland

scholarly journals Understanding Long-Term Change in Rural Tanzania

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Dan Brockington ◽  
Christine Noe
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Studies ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Smallholder Farmers ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Rural Tanzania ◽  
Term Change ◽  
The Subject ◽  
To Come ◽  
Study Sites

This chapter introduces the book as a whole. It explains the subject of interest—change in assets in rural areas. It also explains the methods used to examine them: longitudinal studies—revisits to previously surveyed villages and domestic units. It also outlines the argument. This is that contra to critics of smallholder farmers who decry their lack of activity and critics of neoliberal economic policies for the poverty they cause, the authors have found, surprisingly, that there is more wealth, in terms of assets than they were expecting to find. The chapter explains how the authors selected their study sites and presents brief summaries of each case and the chapters to come.

What are the New Functions of Agriculture Cooperatives in the Progress of Globalization? The Case of Agriculture Cooperatives of Kastamonu

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mustafa Yücel ◽  
Yaşar Aktaş ◽  
Neslişah Taner
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Research Question ◽  
International Markets ◽  
Agricultural Cooperatives ◽  
Capital Movements ◽  
Agriculture Sector ◽  
Strategic Plans

While production and markets have been becoming more integrated since barriers to the international trade reduced, capital movements and the speed of spreading of technology increased with the progress of globalization, issues regarding to agriculture, environment, women, employment, and education became more critical. In this research, “by which functions and missions can agricultural cooperatives sustain their assets under globalized conditions” is the major research question. In the research, 19 cooperatives were chosen among 308 cooperatives, depending on their distance to Kastamonu, foundation year, and the amount of member. Subjects were determined by their traits and occupations. 164 subjects were interviewed via survey questions in 2014-2015. In research, “The situation-specific approach” model, developed by Hartmut Albrecht was applied. Because of the progress of change in organizational values, agriculture cooperatives have to undertake new functions in addition to maintaining agricultural production. The functions can be classified into 4 categories as socio-economic (taking local goods to international markets, recording incomes in the agriculture sector, and creating new employment positions to reduce migration to urban), international relations (developing new projects toward internationalizing to collaborate with other cooperatives), planning (making long-term strategic plans), and education (training women in rural areas, and obtaining their collaboration in cooperative campaigns, and educating future's cooperative managers).

Achieving Sustainable Recovery: Criteria for Evaluating the Sustainability and Effectiveness of Covid-19 Recovery Investments in Latin America and the Caribbean

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graham Watkins ◽  
Hervé Breton ◽  
Guy Edwards
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
Working Paper ◽  
Climate Resilience ◽  
Net Zero ◽  
Short And Long Term ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Sustainable Recovery

The Covid-19 pandemic has precipitated unprecedented health, social and economic crises across the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. All countries in the region moved quickly to implement rescue policies to safeguard lives and livelihoods. The rescue phase continues along with the challenge of orchestrating the post-COVID-19 economic recovery: designing packages of investments and initiatives to stimulate employment, liquidity, reignite sustainable and inclusive economic growth and transition towards net-zero emission and climate-resilience economies to confront the worsening climate and ecological crisis. These policies must be sustainable in the short and long term and bring institutional, social, economic/financial, and environmental co-benefits. This working paper proposes criteria for evaluating the sustainability of recovery investments and initiatives, to serve as a checklist for stakeholders to use to ensure a recovery that builds an inclusive, sustainable and resilient future for all.

scholarly journals Hunger in Latin America: What Can We Do?

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (s1) ◽  
pp. s94-s94
Author(s):  
Silvana Dal Ponte ◽  
Daniel Menezes
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Climate Changes ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
World Health ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Food And Nutrition ◽  
The World ◽  
The Caribbean

Introduction:Hunger is a global problem and has increased in recent years. In Latin America, hunger continues in high numbers. Although the level of hunger is relatively low compared to other regions, this increase in Latin America is mainly explained by the economic slowdown in South America. Also, climate changes are already weakening the production of the main crops in tropical and temperate regions.Aim:Report the numbers of hunger in Latin America.Methods:A cross-sectional study with reports of the World Health Organization’s hunger figures, September 2018.Results:The number of hungry people in the world has increased for the third consecutive year and affects 821 million people, according to a report released by UN agencies. This corresponds to one in nine people in the world. In Brazil, the figures indicate that more than 5.2 million people spent a day or more without consuming food by 2017, which corresponds to 2.5% of the population. In Latin America and the Caribbean, hunger has also increased and affects some 39 million people.Discussion:Hunger is a catastrophic problem in Latin America. Involving professionals in food and nutrition to try to reduce these numbers appears to be a good strategy because just as the doctor treats the disease, the involvement of other specialists to address the cause of the problem can bring long-term benefits. A social project for this purpose that mobilizes chefs and nutritionists is in progress in Brazil.

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