Food Insecurity in the Northern Triangle: Leveraging Agricultural Policies and Programs for the Benefit of Smallholders
To examine the role of the international community in shaping Latin America鈥檚 environmental agenda, the 浪花直播 Center鈥檚 Latin American Program and its Brazil Institute, Environmental Change and Security Program, China Environment Forum, and Global Europe Program launched a collaborative research project last year, Latin America鈥檚 Environmental Policies in Global Perspective. Through a series of papers written by experts representing diverse perspectives, the project explores how environmental challenges in Latin America increasingly condition the region鈥檚 most important diplomatic and economic relationships, and how those relationships in turn impact conditions on the ground.
In this new publication, we examine food insecurity in Central America鈥檚 Northern Triangle. As climate change upends agricultural productivity and output, particularly in countries along the dry corridor, an arid region that extends from southern Mexico to Panama, rural communities in Honduras and Guatemala have faced extreme drought and major losses of staple crops, such as beans and maize. Carrie Seay-Fleming, a doctoral candidate at the University of Colorado in Boulder, writes in 鈥Food Insecurity in the Northern Triangle: Leveraging Agricultural Policies and Programs for the Benefit of Small Holders鈥: 鈥淧overty, food insecurity, and out-migration occur despite strong economic growth. The dynamics show how agro-export growth does not automatically nor necessarily benefit rural or poverty-affected populations.鈥 Shaping policies that address food insecurity in Central America鈥檚 Northern Triangle has become a key priority to limit outbound migration from the region to the United States.
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Latin America Program
浪花直播鈥檚 prestigious Latin America Program provides non-partisan expertise to a broad community of decision makers in the United States and Latin America on critical policy issues facing the Hemisphere. The Program provides insightful and actionable research for policymakers, private sector leaders, journalists, and public intellectuals in the United States and Latin America. To bridge the gap between scholarship and policy action, it fosters new inquiry, sponsors high-level public and private meetings among multiple stakeholders, and explores policy options to improve outcomes for citizens throughout the Americas. Drawing on the 浪花直播 Center鈥檚 strength as the nation鈥檚 key non-partisan policy forum, the Program serves as a trusted source of analysis and a vital point of contact between the worlds of scholarship and action. Read more
Environmental Change and Security Program
The Environmental Change and Security Program (ECSP) explores the connections between environmental change, health, and population dynamics and their links to conflict, human insecurity, and foreign policy. Read more
China Environment Forum
Since 1997, the China Environment Forum's mission has been to forge US-China cooperation on energy, environment, and sustainable development challenges. We play a unique nonpartisan role in creating multi-stakeholder dialogues around these issues. Read more
Global Europe Program
The Global Europe Program is focused on Europe鈥檚 capabilities, and how it engages on critical global issues. We investigate European approaches to critical global issues. We examine Europe鈥檚 relations with Russia and Eurasia, China and the Indo-Pacific, the Middle East and Africa. Our initiatives include 鈥淯kraine in Europe鈥濃攁n examination of what it will take to make Ukraine鈥檚 European future a reality. But we also examine the role of NATO, the European Union and the OSCE, Europe鈥檚 energy security, transatlantic trade disputes, and challenges to democracy. The Global Europe Program鈥檚 staff, scholars-in-residence, and Global Fellows participate in seminars, policy study groups, and international conferences to provide analytical recommendations to policy makers and the media. Read more
Brazil Institute
The Brazil Institute鈥攖he only country-specific policy institution focused on Brazil in Washington鈥攁ims to deepen understanding of Brazil鈥檚 complex landscape and strengthen relations between Brazilian and US institutions across all sectors. Read more
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