Towards National and Global Agendas: Latin America and the Caribbean

A new agenda is needed to revitalize agriculture and rural areas of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) to improve overall development. The domestic market, in LAC and in most of its countries individually, is the largest and the fastest growing market for agricultural products, which creates impo...

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Main Authors:	Berdegué, Julio A., Schejtman, Alexander, Chiriboga, Manuel, Modrego, Félix, Charnay, Romain, Ortega, Jorge
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, DC: World Bank 2012
Subjects:	World Development Report 2008
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9241

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spelling	okr-10986-92412021-04-23T14:02:44Z Towards National and Global Agendas: Latin America and the Caribbean Berdegué, Julio A. Schejtman, Alexander Chiriboga, Manuel Modrego, Félix Charnay, Romain Ortega, Jorge World Development Report 2008 A new agenda is needed to revitalize agriculture and rural areas of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) to improve overall development. The domestic market, in LAC and in most of its countries individually, is the largest and the fastest growing market for agricultural products, which creates important opportunities for agricultural growth. A strategy to promote small and medium family farms aimed at the new domestic markets should have the objectives of: (a) fostering an enabling environment for broad-based investment and growth, (b) developing and modernizing domestic markets to upgrade them to meet the challenge of new consumer demands and modern retail-driven food supply and distribution chains; and (c) strengthening the capacities of small and medium family farms through greater access to effective financial services, training, technical assistance and producers organizations. 2012-06-26T15:42:40Z 2012-06-26T15:42:40Z 2008 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9241 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank Washington, DC: World Bank Latin America & Caribbean
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description	A new agenda is needed to revitalize agriculture and rural areas of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) to improve overall development. The domestic market, in LAC and in most of its countries individually, is the largest and the fastest growing market for agricultural products, which creates important opportunities for agricultural growth. A strategy to promote small and medium family farms aimed at the new domestic markets should have the objectives of: (a) fostering an enabling environment for broad-based investment and growth, (b) developing and modernizing domestic markets to upgrade them to meet the challenge of new consumer demands and modern retail-driven food supply and distribution chains; and (c) strengthening the capacities of small and medium family farms through greater access to effective financial services, training, technical assistance and producers organizations.
author	Berdegué, Julio A. Schejtman, Alexander Chiriboga, Manuel Modrego, Félix Charnay, Romain Ortega, Jorge
author_facet	Berdegué, Julio A. Schejtman, Alexander Chiriboga, Manuel Modrego, Félix Charnay, Romain Ortega, Jorge
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title	Towards National and Global Agendas: Latin America and the Caribbean
title_short	Towards National and Global Agendas: Latin America and the Caribbean
title_full	Towards National and Global Agendas: Latin America and the Caribbean
title_fullStr	Towards National and Global Agendas: Latin America and the Caribbean
title_full_unstemmed	Towards National and Global Agendas: Latin America and the Caribbean
title_sort	towards national and global agendas: latin america and the caribbean
publisher	Washington, DC: World Bank
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Towards National and Global Agendas: Latin America and the Caribbean

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