This paper updates the Social Risk Management (SRM) conceptual framework; the foundation of the World Bank's first Social Protection Sector Strategy. SRM 2.0 addresses the increasingly risky and uncertain...
This paper takes a critical view of the challenges that lie ahead for land?related development projects in Central America. Drawing upon several sources of information and types of analysis, including...
Volume 2 of the Rapid Agricultural Supply Chain Risk Assessment provides a series of methodological guidelines to support assessment teams throughout all stages of assessment planning, implementation and...
Understanding the heterogeneity of Zambia's rural households and their different potential as agricultural producers is critical to designing strategies for commercially viable smallholders. The objective...
This paper provides the results of an international survey of practitioners with experience in facilitating the participation of African smallholder farmers in supply chains for higher-value and/or differentiated...
With a population of seven million, Honduras is the second most populous country in Central America. It is also the second poorest country in the region with an annual per capita income of less than US$...
Con una población de siete millones de personas, Honduras es el segundo país más poblado de América Central. También es el segundo país más pobre de la región, con un ingreso anual per cápita inferior...
The regional study, "drivers of sustainable rural growth and poverty reduction in Central America," carried out by the Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development Department of the Latin America...
El estudio regional “Motores del crecimiento rural sostenible y de reducción de la pobreza en Centroamérica”, emprendido por la Unidad de Desarrollo Ambiental y Socialmente Sostenible de la región de América...
Guatemala like other countries in Central America, growth and development have been concentrated in areas where agro-ecological conditions are favorable for agricultural export products. Economic potential...
The asset-based approach considers links between households' productive, social, and locational assets; the policy, institutional, and risk context; household behavior as expressed in livelihood strategies;...
An estimated 80,000-100,000 Dominican farmers produce coffee and cocoa, nearly 40 percent of all agricultural producers. The sectors also provide employment for tens of thousands of field laborers and...
Social risk management (SRM) is a new means of looking at poverty, risk, and risk management that was recently presented in the World Bank's Social Protection Strategy Paper. The SRM perspective addresses...
As a result of the declining contribution of rice based farming in East Asia, investment in agriculture must diversify to maintain rural incomes. In the short term, countries should : 1) diversify toward...