As part of our policy to promote international exchange and mobility, INESAD works with many associated researchers and interns both remotely and within our offices in La Paz. Join us in welcoming our new La Paz-based intern, Mieke Dale-Harris:

Mieke is a psychology gradute from Goldsmiths University of London. During her travels around Latin America over the last five years, she has developed a passion for development issues, a love for Latin America, and even an interest in economics.    Read More »

As part of continuous growth, INESAD and Development Roast are bringing on board a host of new interns. Join us in welcoming our newest addition Allan Spessoto:

Allan is a student of International Development at York University, Toronto. His interests for social issues emerged at the end of high school in Brazil, when he encountered inspiring teachers and eye-opening documentaries. After that, he studied music for one year but decided to go abroad to learn more about global politics and justice, which later became his primary interest. Read More »

As part of continuous growth, INESAD and Development Roast are bringing on board a host of new interns. Join us in welcoming our newest addition Carolynn Look:

Carolynn is a student of Chinese and Development Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. She is currently living in Beijing, as part of her degree, where she is working on a sinological research project related to creativity in China.

She discovered her passion for China and developing countries when she was still living in her hometown in Berlin, Germany.
There she attended a German-American high school, which she felt never taught her enough about the world outside of Europe and the US. When she was 16, she went to China for the first time by herself with money she had saved up from babysitting. Read More »

It is no secret that every nation in the world struggles with peace and stability in some way, shape or form. The Global Peace Index (GPI) attempts to capture this process by collecting data and information and collating it into 23 indicators that give countries a final score between one and five. You can view a map of the 2012 GPI around the globe here.

Hispanically Speaking News has gone one step further and organized the 2012 GPI measures for Latin American countries into an easy to understand infographic: Read More »

Many people in Latin America live in poor quality housing or in no housing at all. According to an Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) report entitled Room for Development: Housing Markets in Latin America and the Caribbean, over two thirds of households in Nicaragua, Bolivia, Peru and Guatemala lack adequate housing. The IADB has developed a very informative infographic to illustrate these and other country differences in the region:  Read More »

As part of continuous growth, INESAD and Development Roast are bringing on board a host of new interns. Join us in welcoming our newest addition Adam Nelson:

Adam is a recent graduate from Beloit College where he obtained his BA in Anthropology. While there, he became interested in cultural theory, indigenous social movements, and sustainable development.

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There is a lot of talk about carbon accounting, carbon footprints and future sustainability, but these things are hard to imagine on a day-to-day level. Fortunately, many organizations are trying to make this topic easier to digest by coming up with ingenious inforgraphics to illustrate the point. Two in particular are helping people see their own country’s carbon footprint in five different ways.  Read More »

Many economic mechanisms have been put forward to try to better manage natural resources. The UN Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (UN-REDD), for example, aims to put a financial value on the carbon stored in rainforests and incentivise developing countries to maintain them. Other systems in place give tax credits and other incentives to businesses for becoming more sustainable, but how ready are they to count their own carbon emissions? This is the question that Epicor asked in a survey of almost 1,000 companies from across the world earlier this year. The result? An inforgraphic that reveals fascinating facts like 58 percent of businesses had never even heard of carbon accounting: Read More »

INESAD’s Ioulia Fenton is currently researching food and agriculture topics at Worldwatch Institutes‘ Nourishing the Planet project (NtP). Check out her latest article that was featured on the NtP website:

Five Holistic Alternative Farming Methods: Agroecology at its Best

In March 2011, the United Nations Special Rapporteur, Olivier De Schutter, presented a report highlighting how agroecology holds promise for alleviating hunger, reducing poverty, preserving the environment, and fighting climate change. Read More »