Costa Rica needs to adopt a human rights approach and promote community governance of the sea, while strengthening local and indigenous communities’ diverse organizational structures. Costa Rica has never conducted a fisheries census. For this reason, the country lacks official information on the precise number of people working in fisheries, or...

This booklet introduces the bioeconomy topic and its growing relevance also for youth. Global political and economic development agendas are placing more focus on developing and growing the bioeconomy to support the transformation to sustainable bio-based industries. Based on real cases of youth entrepreneurs in the bioeconomy from four different...

Despite facing significant barriers, rural women play an increasingly central role in Costa Rica’s agriculture sector, making key contributions to sustainable farming and livestock management. The SCALA programme , co-led by FAO and UNDP, recently convened with three Costa Rican experts —Sylvia Chaves Acuña (Gender Specialist, FAO), Rafaella Sánchez Mora (Senior Specialist in...

This brochure contains the challenges and recommendations from the eight countrie’s case studies on ‘Social Development and Sustainable Fisheries’ conducted by ICSF in Antigua and Barbuda, Costa Rica, Ghana, The Philippines, Bangladesh, Brazil, Thailand and India (Kerala/Tamil Nadu and West Bengal). The ICSF’s studies uses the parameters of social development, within...

The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF) has just published the latest issue of SAMUDRA Report, its triannual journal on fisheries, communities and livelehoods. The current edition, SAMUDRA Report No. 91, dated June 2024, is a Special Issue that runs into 110 pages and features a diverse range of...

Objetivos del evento Intercambiar experiencias transformadoras e inclusivas en la agricultura y el uso de la tierra en la implementación de acciones y/o prácticas de adaptación al cambio climático con co-beneficios para mitigación. Aproximación Metodológica  El evento se impartirá utilizando un método explicativo para facilitar el flujo de información y conocimientos, las perspectivas...

In the context of fiscal reform in Costa Rica (value added tax revision), the definition of a new basic tax basket – canasta básica tributaria (CBT), incorporating nutritional criteria is underway in the country. In this study, price elasticities of major food categories were analysed using a Quadratic Almost Ideal...

The city of Cahuita in Costa Rica hosted the III SmallScale Fisheries Congress from September 26 to 29, 2023. Its theme was: ‘Life, knowledge and culture linked together’. In attendance were numerous fishworkers and shellfish gleaners and their representatives from Costa Rica, along with 21 delegates from Mexico, Honduras and...

El documento tiene como objetivo contribuir a una mejora en las condiciones laborales de las mujeres en la industria bananera latinoamericana, a traves de directrices para el empleo seguro y saludable de las trabajadoras en una industria que históricamente ha estado dominada por los hombres. Cuenta con contribuciones de mujeres...

En el marco del Año Internacional de la Pesca y la Acuicultura Artesanales (2022), y con el apoyo de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO) y Organización del Sector de la Pesca y la Acuicultura del Istmo Centroamericano (OSPESCA), se instauró la nueva...

La rápida evolución de la tecnología financiera (Fintech) en la última década tiene implicaciones importantes para la promoción de la inclusión financiera, especialmente en contextos en desarrollo y emergentes. Las innovaciones digitales en el campo financiero, y especialmente los servicios de dinero móvil, tienen un vasto potencial para aliviar algunas...

El Programa Mesoamérica Sin Hambre (MSH) es una iniciativa de cooperación regional, con un presupuesto total de 15 millones de dólares y un ciclo de duración de ocho años (2015-2022), financiada por la Agencia Mexicana de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AMEXCID) y ejecutada por la FAO en nueve países...

The country’s commitment to providing for and protecting all communities and its diversity, while admirable, has thus far been ineffective. Enacted policies have failed to make much headway, due to a lack of co-ordination between different government institutions. The country’s rural development efforts have mostly been directed towards the agriculture...

Video de presentación de la Cooperativa Cooperborbon de Costa Rica. En diálogo con FAO, se da cuenta de los avances en digitalización y sus principales logros para el mercado y sus cooperados y cooperadas en materia de logística, trazabilidad e inocuidad en la implementación de su e-commerce, que se consolidó...

The Dry Corridor is a strip of territory that streteches across Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala. More than 10 million people live there, many of whom are engaged in agricultural activities, especially the small production of basic grains. It is an area highly vulnerable to extreme climatic events, where...

Improving the lot of small-scale and artisanal fisheries in Costa Rica will lead to the betterment of indigenous peoples, Afro-descendants and other vulnerable groups. Located in Central America, Costa Rica is a country where only one-tenth of its territory is made up of land. Official data shows the territorial extension of...

La agricultura familiar es clave para lograr una ruralidad próspera, territorios más innovadores y garantizar alimentos frescos y saludables en nuestras mesas. En la actualidad, la agricultura familiar en Costa Rica representa el 55% de las explotaciones agrícolas.

Despite several challenges, Lilia Briones Bermúdez, a community leader in Barra del Colorado, Costa Rica, remains steadfastly committed to the struggles of her community. Lilia Briones is a fisherwoman. She is also a community leader, in the forefront of the struggles of her community in Barra del Colorado, a small-scale artisanal...

El mapeo de las iniciativas de agricultura familiar es una herramienta que busca entregar una visión completa sobre panorama de cada país de América Latina y el Caribe. Este resumen presenta una categorización de las distintas leyes que se implementaron e implementaran.

Tackling biodiversity loss is a growing priority for human survival. Introducing incentives for positive actions could play a key role in helping to reverse this loss. This paper explores the potential of using a novel approach to promote biodiversity conservation. Biodiversity credits or ‘biocredits’ are coherent units of measurement that track...