Entrepreneurship Archives - Americas Quarterly

The Maya Women Beating Malnutrition and Becoming Entrepreneurs

A project in southern Mexico promotes land ownership and local food production.

Food banks are working with Indigenous communities to fight malnutrition in one of the country’s most remote regions.

An NGO is helping cane field workers access social services, exercise their rights and build more prosperous communities.

A community project is reintroducing traditional agricultural practices to a mountainous corner of southern Mexico.

Diego Ontaneda Benavides’s organization trains teenagers, most from marginalized communities, into budding changemakers.

Venture capital investment is receding again in Latin America. But the founders of Kaszek Ventures see the upside.

AS/COA and Citi Foundation host a conversation on improving women’s financial inclusion, featuring Colombian Vice President Marta Lucía Ramírez.

Amid competition for orders and risky work conditions, some bike delivery riders are setting off on their own.

“We are in a very difficult moment fighting for the future of our industry.”

With support from President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the sport looked set for a gilded age. Then came COVID-19.  

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A close look at the country’s top water-related challenges – and the government’s efforts to address them.