In the La Plata basin, production of industrial crops and biofuels is rapidly expanding - a phenomenon driven by international markets, energy prices and the desire to offset the use of fossil fuels.
Point-of-sale advertising refers to the display of promotional materials where tobacco products are sold.
The Guatemalan internal armed conflict ended in 1996, leaving about 2% of the population either dead or missing ("disappeared").
The Mapuche are an indigenous people settled in what is today southwestern Argentina and southern Chile. The two countries have declared protected areas on part of their territory, with limited input from the Mapuche themselves.
A national system of innovation can be defined as "the elements and relationships, which interact in the diffusion, production and use of new and economically useful knowledge ...
This grant will support a study of the factors (aspects, instruments, sectors and mechanisms) influencing the design and coordination of regional innovation policies by Southern Cone Common Market (Mercosur) countries (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil,
Psychosocial trauma resulting from the Colombian armed conflict constitutes a pressing social and mental health issue that requires immediate attention.
Latin America urgently needs policies that promote economic growth, social inclusion and sound environmental governance.
Violence against women continues to be a significant obstacle to equitable, human development in Latin America.
IDRC has provided two phases of support to OSILAC, the Observatory for the Information Society in Latin America and the Caribbean (101849 and 102830).