Rural perspectives: Sharing experiences from Latin America and the Caribbean


In brief YOUTH Young enterprisers share their hopes, dreams, challenges and achievements at IFAD’s 2011 Governing Council Discover their suggestions GENDER Take a fantastic voyage with this interactive map on gender issues Study Tours build dividends for project participants PARAGUAY Campesino 2.0. Digital accounting software offers a livelihood upgrade BRAZIL Dom Hélder Câmara – Project evaluation focuses on flexibility, innovation and sustainability In the news Latest news from Latin America and Caribbean Forum Join the debate in our new forum About IFAD Learn more about IFAD Newsletters From other regions Contacts Greg Benchwick	Issue number 7 - February 2011
	Giant Steps: Taking stock as we move into 2011 By Josefina Stubbs The coming of a new year is always a time for dreamers. And as we break into 2011, the International Fund for Agricultural Development’s Latin America and the Caribbean Division is dreaming big. In the upcoming year, we hope to bring over 10 new project-funding requests to our Executive Board... Read more \| What do you think of this article? Join the debate in our Spanish-language forum
	Proximate context’ key to capitalizing new market conditions The world is trembling over the rising cost of foods. The basic ingredients that feed us everyday – things like sugar, rice, wheat and corn – are surpassing their high-water mark from the 2008 Food Crisis. Read more \| What do you think of this article? Join the debate in our Spanish-language forum	Making the best of conditional cash transfer programs Some 15 countries in the Latin America and Caribbean region have conditional cash transfer programs (CCT). These programs – Oportunidades in Mexico, Bolsa Familia in Brazil and Juntos in Peru – have received wide acclaim... Read more \| What do you think of this article? Join the debate in our Spanish-language forum
	Outlooks This is rural poverty in Latin America. And while its dimensions and striations, variegations, flaws, strengths and commonalities are nearly impossible to capture in a single portrait, it’s certainly worth the effort. In their recent paper Latin America: The State of Smallholders in Agriculture, agronomist Julio A. Berdegué and sociologist Ricardo Fuentealba strive to define and delineate the nuanced reality facing one important component of the 62 million rural people living in poverty in the region: agricultural smallholders. The paper presents strong arguments on the nature of rural poverty, development and family farming in the region, also revealing a series of numbers and facts on rural inequality that lead the paper’s authors to conclude that Latin America has “the most unequal rural sector in the world.” Read more \| What do you think of this article? Join the debate in our Spanish-language forum

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In brief YOUTH Young enterprisers share their hopes, dreams, challenges and achievements at IFAD’s 2011 Governing Council Discover their suggestions GENDER Take a fantastic voyage with this interactive map on gender issues Study Tours build dividends for project participants PARAGUAY Campesino 2.0. Digital accounting software offers a livelihood upgrade BRAZIL Dom Hélder Câmara – Project evaluation focuses on flexibility, innovation and sustainability In the news Latest news from Latin America and Caribbean Forum Join the debate in our new forum About IFAD Learn more about IFAD Newsletters From other regions Contacts Greg Benchwick	Issue number 7 - February 2011
	Giant Steps: Taking stock as we move into 2011 By Josefina Stubbs The coming of a new year is always a time for dreamers. And as we break into 2011, the International Fund for Agricultural Development’s Latin America and the Caribbean Division is dreaming big. In the upcoming year, we hope to bring over 10 new project-funding requests to our Executive Board... Read more \| What do you think of this article? Join the debate in our Spanish-language forum
	Proximate context’ key to capitalizing new market conditions The world is trembling over the rising cost of foods. The basic ingredients that feed us everyday – things like sugar, rice, wheat and corn – are surpassing their high-water mark from the 2008 Food Crisis. Read more \| What do you think of this article? Join the debate in our Spanish-language forum	Making the best of conditional cash transfer programs Some 15 countries in the Latin America and Caribbean region have conditional cash transfer programs (CCT). These programs – Oportunidades in Mexico, Bolsa Familia in Brazil and Juntos in Peru – have received wide acclaim... Read more \| What do you think of this article? Join the debate in our Spanish-language forum
	Outlooks This is rural poverty in Latin America. And while its dimensions and striations, variegations, flaws, strengths and commonalities are nearly impossible to capture in a single portrait, it’s certainly worth the effort. In their recent paper Latin America: The State of Smallholders in Agriculture, agronomist Julio A. Berdegué and sociologist Ricardo Fuentealba strive to define and delineate the nuanced reality facing one important component of the 62 million rural people living in poverty in the region: agricultural smallholders. The paper presents strong arguments on the nature of rural poverty, development and family farming in the region, also revealing a series of numbers and facts on rural inequality that lead the paper’s authors to conclude that Latin America has “the most unequal rural sector in the world.” Read more \| What do you think of this article? Join the debate in our Spanish-language forum

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