En esta edición se tratan diversos temas afines al campo de los estudios de población, que siguen el enfoque multidisciplinario y ratifican la inclusión de la perspectiva regional de esta publicación. Se cuenta con el valioso aporte de reconocidos especialistas y sus investigaciones originales enfocadas a distintos países: Argentina, Bolivia (Estado Plurinacional de), Brasil, Ecuador, México y Uruguay. Además, se incluye un artículo sobre la presencia de latinoamericanos y caribeños en España y dos trabajos más cuyo universo de estudio es América Latina y el Caribe.
Las etapas iniciales del asentamiento fronterizo en la Amazonia brasileña se caracterizaron
por la gran intensidad de la afluencia de flujos migratorios, la deforestación y la rotación
de la propiedad. Cuarenta años más tarde, los hogares rurales están más orientados
al mercado y han desarrollado estrategias para adaptarse al ambiente local. A partir
de teorías sobre la demografía de los hogares y de la renta ofertada (bid-rent), en este
trabajo se propone un marco conceptual para los cambios en el uso y la cobertura de
The Regional Action Plan for the Implementation of the New Urban Agenda in Latin America and the Caribbean (RAP) seeks to be the regional expression of the New Urban Agenda, setting out potential actions and interventions as well as relevant and priority policy guidance for all Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries in order to achieve sustainable urban development.This document was prepared by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), in cooperation with the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) and the Assembly of Ministers and High Autho
Ante los actuales desafíos que enfrenta América Latina, los instrumentos acordados en el marco de las Naciones Unidas ofrecen una base importante para la implementación de políticas públicas innovadoras. En la Agenda 2030 para el Desarrollo Sostenible se reconocen la igualdad de género y la autonomía de las mujeres como factores fundamentales para avanzar hacia el desarrollo sostenible. De conformidad con la Nueva Agenda Urbana, se debe garantizar a las mujeres la igualdad de derechos en todas las dimensiones que afectan a las ciudades.
Changing dietary preferences and population growth in South Asia have resulted in increasing demand for wheat and maize, along side high and sustained demand for rice. In the highly productive northwestern Indo-Gangetic Plains of South Asia, farmers utilize groundwater irrigation to assure that at least two of these crops are sequenced on the same field within the same year. Such double cropping has had a significant and positive influence on regional agricultural productivity. But in the risk-prone and food insecure lower Eastern Indo-Gangetic Plains (EIGP), cropping is less intensive.
Forest conversion in the tropics is increasingly driven by global demand for agricultural forest-risk commodities such as soy, beef, palm oil and timber. In order to be effective, future forest conservation policies should include measures targeting both producers (the supply side) and consumers (the demand side) to address commodity-driven deforestation.
With international food price shocks in 2008 and 2011, food security became a political priority in many countries. In addition, some politicians have recently adopted a more nationalistic stance. Against that background, this paper critically investigates the prospects of increased food production within a national context. We use a small, high-income country, Norway, as an empirical case. In 2012, the government set a goal of increasing agricultural food production by 20% by 2030. We ask: 1) How has food production in Norway developed before and after the goal was set?
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