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Lately, the Central American region has been affected by the consequences of global warming, with the greatest impact manifesting in the dry corridor of Nicaragua and Honduras where cyclical droughts and rain patterns with characteristics very similar to the El Niño phenomenon occur. These climatic conditions have affected levels of productivity and environmental and social sustainability of a po...

The Regional Fund for Agricultural Technology (FONTAGRO) is a unique mechanism for promoting collaboration for the innovation of family farming. It was created in 1998 by 15 countries with the sponsorship of the IDB. Over the years FONTAGRO has supported more than 160 projects and initiatives in the region, for a total of over US$120 million. In order to promote the use of knowledge products gener...

The Regional Fund for Agricultural Technology (FONTAGRO) is a unique mechanism to promote collaboration for the innovation of family farming. It was created in 1998 by 15 countries with the sponsorship of the IDB. Through the years FONTAGRO has supported more than 160 projects and initiatives in the region, for a total of over US$120 million. In order to promote the use of knowledge products gener...

The Regional Fund for Agricultural Technology (FONTAGRO) was created in 1998 by 15 countries and is an example of sustainable cooperation, aimed at promoting agricultural technological innovation in its member countries. FONTAGRO has been supporting a portfolio of more than 160 projects and initiatives in the region, having successfully mobilized resources from different donors, including the IDB,...

The Gran Chaco represents the second largest forest region in Latin America after the Amazon jungle and is shared between Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia and a small part of Brazil. Climate vulnerability studies of the Gran Chaco foresee significant impacts in the next three decades, particularly due to greater risk of droughts and floods and an increase in extreme climatic phenomena. This climatic v...

In Latin America, 80-90 % of producers belong to the Family Agriculture (FA) sector. This group occupies between 14 to 70% of the agricultural area of Latin American countries and contributes 27-67 % of agricultural GDP. For some species of economic importance, between 50 to 90% of crop production is carried out using traditional seeds through self-production or through transactions in local marke...

Family livestock systems based on meat production in natural pastures constitute the majority of cattle farmers and rural populations of Uruguay and Entre Ríos (Argentina). The high levels of stocking rate and/or the absence of spatial-temporal management cause overgrazing and poor spatial distribution, which, in combination with climatic variation, contribute to low levels of consumption, energy...

Agricultural activity consumes most available fresh water out of all human activities. In particular, dairy production uses large volumes of water, directly and indirectly. Therefore, it is important to estimate water use as an indicator of the long-term sustainability of dairy production. Medium-term projections show that global demand for dairy products will be greater than the growth in supply ...

From a socioeconomic point of view, coffee in Central America represents one of the most important items in the agricultural sector. There are around 958,000 hectares of coffee plantations in the region, with an approximate population of 2 million people, if we consider the members of producer families and other actors in the coffee value chain who participate in processing, exportation, roasting,...

This was a proposal to strengthen the Forum of the Americas for Agricultural Technological Research and Development (FORAGRO) with the collaboration of FONTAGRO. Specifically, it was proposed to support the XV Meeting of the Executive Committee and VII International Meeting of FORAGRO where the results of the external evaluation and the proposal for reengineering FORAGRO were presented, and dialog...