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Home to more than 21 million people, the Mexico City metropolitan area sprawls across some 7 850 sq km, forming one of the world’s largest urban agglomerations. At its heart is the Federal District – Mexico City proper – with an area of 1 480 sq km and a population...

With a population of 90 000 and total annual Gdp of some US$1.2 billion, the twin-island state of Antigua and Barbuda ranks among the world’s “high income non-Oecd” countries. But it also has one of the highest rates of income inequality in the Caribbean. A study in 2007 found that...

Honduras is among the world’s poorest countries and has one of the highest rates of urban poverty in the Latin America and Caribbean region. In 2010, almost 60 percent of the country’s 4 million city dwellers had incomes below the national poverty line. The capital, Tegucigalpa, is emblematic of the...

Among Central American countries, Nicaragua has made the firmest commitment to urban and peri-urban agriculture. The expansion of Upa is a key strategy in its national development plan for 2012-2016, and a recently launched government programme aims at establishing 250 000 home gardens in cities around the country. By recent...

In April 2000, Ecuador’s political and economic capital hosted a meeting of local government representatives from nine countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. The outcome was the landmark Quito Declaration, the first to call on the region’s cities “to embrace urban agriculture” as a means of reducing poverty, food insecurity...