Sustainable Agricultural Productivity Growth and Bridging the Gap for Small-Family Farms: Interagency Report to the Mexican G20 Presidency

In 2011, G20 leaders committed to sustainably increase agricultural (production and) productivity (paragraph 43 of the Cannes Declaration). They "agree(d) to further invest in agriculture, in particular in the poorest countries, and bearing in mind the importance of smallholders, through responsible public and private investment," they "decide(d) to invest in research and development of agricultural productivity. Early in 2012 Mexico, as G20 President, invited international organisations to examine practical actions that could be undertaken to sustainably improve agricultural productivity growth, in particular on small family farms. The preparation of this report, co-ordinated by the FAO and the OECD, responds to this request. It is a collaborative undertaking by Bioversity, CGIAR Consortium, FAO, IFAD, IFPRI, IICA, OECD, UNCTAD, Coordination team of UN High Level Task Force on the Food Security Crisis, WFP, World Bank, and WTO. We, the international organisations, are pleased to provide you with this joint report and look forward to continuing collaboration within the G20 framework to further elaborate and, as appropriate, implement the recommendations that it contains

Neoliberalism and the revival of agricultural cooperatives: The case of the coffee sector in Uganda

Agricultural cooperatives have seen a comeback in sub‐Saharan Africa. After the collapse of many weakly performing monopolist organizations during the 1980s and 1990s, strengthened cooperatives have emerged since the 2000s. Scholarly knowledge about the state–cooperative relations in which this “revival” takes place remains poor. Based on new evidence from Uganda's coffee sector, this paper discusses the political economy of Africa's cooperative revival. The authors argue that donors' and African governments' renewed support is framed in largely apolitical terms, which obscures the contested political and economic nature of the revival. In the context of neoliberal restructuring processes, state and non‐state institutional support to democratic economic organizations with substantial redistributional agendas remains insufficient. The political–economic context in Uganda—and potentially elsewhere in Africa—contributes to poor terms of trade for agricultural cooperatives while maintaining significant state control over some cooperative activities to protect the status quo interests of big capital and state elites. These conditions are unlikely to produce a conflict‐free, substantial, and sustained revival of cooperatives, which the new promoters of cooperatives suggest is under way

From Intervention to Empowerment: A New Approach to Assisting SMEs in Latin America: Regulation, Procurement, and Dispute Resolution

This paper outlines some of the issues that affect small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in three areas: regulation, procurement, and dispute resolution. The work presented herein is part of the Bank's most recent efforts to develop new approaches and instruments to strengthen its role as a major development partner of this important engine of growth in the Latin American and Caribbean region. It focuses on nonfinancial issues which have seldom been addressed systematically in the debate on the constraints hindering SMEs.SME, Fiscal Policy, Transparency & Anticorruption, Finance, Microenterprise, Publications, Small and Medium Enterprise

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Tracking the Propensity of Financial Institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean to Finance Small and Medium Enterprises

The Inter-American Investment Corporation (IIC), MIF and the Latin American Federation of Banks (FELABAN) conducted an initial survey in December 2004 of 111 Latin American financial institutions, the purpose of which was to identify the propensity of Latin American and Caribbean banks to finance small and medium enterprises (SMEs). In 2006, the study's second survey was conducted to research the SME funding situation. The present report presents the results of the study's third survey conducted in 2008.SME

Productive Development Policies and Innovation Spillovers through Labor Force Mobility: The Case of the Brazilian Innovation Support System

This paper focuses on two research problems. The first is to measure the direct impacts of innovation support measures in Brazil, and the second is to test the hypothesis of indirect effects of innovation policies on non-beneficiary firms through the labor mobility channel, whether resulting from direct support programs or indirect support via tax incentives. For this purpose, mobility is defined as the movement of workers in technical-scientific occupations, as identified by Araujo et al. (2009). It is found that, with the exception of a subvention program, direct support in the form of credit or cooperative projects fosters more innovative effort than tax incentives. Nonetheless, direct and tax- based incentives for innovation have different purposes, and sound innovation relies on both types of incentive.

Report on the workshop on government policy reform for forestry conservation and development

96 páginasThe workshop focused on normative rather than diagnostic matters, and the participants were renowned members of the govemmental and non-govemmental sectors, academia, the private sector and selected intemational technical and financial agencies. (The list of participants can be found in Annex 2). The workshop methodology included the presentation of a series of papers,the majority of which were written for the workshop (the list of which appears in Annex 3); however, most of the time and energy' of the workshop was devoted to group discussions and presentations, as well as plenary sessions. The frame of reference of the workshop was sustainable development, that is to say, a combination of the concepts of equity, competitiveness and sustainability. Efforts were made to avoid an exclusively environmental or development-oriented This report covers the principal points developed in the presentations by the people who wrote the workshop papers, and the results of discussions conducted in working groups and plenary sessions. The latter make up the bulk of this report

Bolivia Social Accounting Matrix, 2012

The Bolivia Social Accounting Matrix (SAM), 2012 was built with a focus on analyzing the structure and importance of the agricultural sector and gender differences in the Bolivian economy, and understanding the linkages between agricultural production, factor income distribution, and households' incomes and expenditures. It is the most detailed, openly accessible SAM for Bolivian economy to date. The 2012 Input-Output (I-O) was the main data source used in building the disaggregated activity sector and commodity accounts of the 2012 Bolivia SAM