One of the main priorities of the Inter-American Development Bank is to combat food insecurity in Latin America and the Caribbean, which today affects almost 40% of the region's population (FAO, 2023). To achieve this, it is essential to implement interventions and promote policies based on evidence and knowledge, with a multisectoral approach and that cover the agri-food … [Read more...] about Seeds for Food Security in Latin America and the Caribbean
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Has the Region’s Tourism Sector Already Overcome the Pandemic’s Impact?
About three and a half years ago, the world stopped. An almost unknown threat made us drastically change our way of living. Without wanting to delve into what that stage entailed regarding human pain and mental and physical challenges for the population, I would like to start a series of blogs about the structural change that the pandemic brought to the tourism … [Read more...] about Has the Region’s Tourism Sector Already Overcome the Pandemic’s Impact?
Cultivating Sustainability: Composting and Kitchen Garden Initiative in Barbados
Composting is a concrete action to tackle climate change and it is expected to reach ~USD 5.7 billion by 2025. It is known that composting helps address climate change in various ways by: a) reducing the amount of methane released into the atmosphere, b) capturing carbon in the soil, lowering carbon dioxide emissions, c) helping grow plants and vegetables, which will also … [Read more...] about Cultivating Sustainability: Composting and Kitchen Garden Initiative in Barbados
Quiz: How much do you know about environmental and social sustainability?
Our mission at the IDB is to improve lives through the projects we finance, the technical assistance we provide and the knowledge we share. To achieve this, all our partners need to understand the environmental and social risks and impacts to which development projects are exposed and the best ways to address them. The IDB's Environmental and Social Policy Framework (ESPF) … [Read more...] about Quiz: How much do you know about environmental and social sustainability?
Socioeconomic Sustainability Against Climate Events: How Breakwaters can Minimize the Disruption of Tourism in the Bahamas
My friend Takao and his wife Emi went on a Caribbean cruise in January 2020, just before the COVID-19 pandemic, to celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary. As part of the tour, they visited Nassau, the capital of the Bahamas. The giant cruise ship took an eastward course early in the morning and sailed slowly towards the vast pier, facing the sunrise, with Paradise Island … [Read more...] about Socioeconomic Sustainability Against Climate Events: How Breakwaters can Minimize the Disruption of Tourism in the Bahamas