FAO Activities in Small Island Developing States

State of Food Security and Nutrition in Small Island Developing States (SIDS)

The most recent data of FAO indicates that many of the SIDS Islands have achieved undernourishment levels of less than 5 percent, Barbados, Cuba and Dominica in the Caribbean; Fiji, Samoa and Kiribati in the Pacific. Countries such as: Dominican Republic, St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Cuba from the Caribbean; Samoa from the Pacific; and São Tomé e Príncipe from the Africa, Indian Ocean, Me...

Biodiversity Indicators, Ecosystem Services and Local Livelihoods in Small Island Developing States (SIDS): Early Warnings of Biodiversity Change

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GMOs: A Good but Battered Means for Sustainable Production Intensification

FAO promotes Sustainable Production Intensification (SPI), which consists of a technology menu for optimizing crop production per unit area, taking into consideration the range of sustainability aspects including potential and/or real social, political, economic and environmental impacts. The author suggests that Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) cropping is not only well aligned to SPI but a...

Food Security and Nutrition in Small Island Developing States (SIDS)

The Case of Small Island Developing States

In this paper we examine how remittances relate to the exchange rate, natural disasters and foreign aid in developing economies. By using panel VAR methods we are able to compensate for both data limitations and endogeneity among variables. We find that while foreign aid tends to appreciate the real exchange rate, remittances do not have the same impact. We also detect an inverse relationship b...