Development Roast Giving international development a proper roasting
By Paula Fynboh There’s a cemetery near Montgomery, Minnesota (USA) where my parents will be buried. It’s the same cemetery where my grandparents were buried. And it is the same place where my great-grandparents found their final resting place. What does this have to do with displacement? It offers me …
Read More »First in Queue: How improving water access for the poor can help meet other Millennium Development Goals.
The United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) set to reduce by half the number of people without access to clean water by 2015 as target ten of goal number seven: ensure environmental sustainability. And—although this fact remains controversial*—this target was met three years early in March 2012. However, this is not a cause …
Read More »Last Call for Papers for Development Economics Conference
There is less than a week to go until the submission deadline for papers for the Fifth Bolivian Conference on Development Economics (BCDE) conference to be held on November 14 and 15, 2013 in Santa Cruz. A travel stipend of 700 USD will be offered to some of the successful applicants. Interested parties …
Read More »When Academia Meets Humor (and now in Spanish!). Meet Yoram Bauman, The Stand-Up Economist
Yoram Bauman is what happens when economics meets comedy. Development Roast caught up with the friendly, engaging, and enthusiastic Stand-Up Economist himself to find out more about the latest out-of-the-box projects from the man who makes economics fun. Blending the academic expertise of an environmental economist at the University of …
Read More »Official launch of SimPachamama
Official launch date SimPachamama will be officially launched on the 1st of September 2013. During the whole month of September, we will publish short articles on SimPachamama, learning games, forests and climate change and anything else relevant for the participatory development of fair and effective mechanisms to reduce deforestation and …
Read More »Bolivia Climate Change Monthly: July, 2013
Welcome to the July 2013 edition of Bolivia Climate Change Monthly where you will find the latest research, policy, donor activity, and news related to climate change in Bolivia*. A Measurement of the Carbon Sequestration Potential of Guadua Angustifolia in the Carrasco National Park, Bolivia by Ricardo A. Rojas Quiroga, Tracey Li, Gonzalo …
Read More »Five Indigenous Andean Crops You’ve Never Heard Of
Today, INESAD’s Ioulia Fenton gave a radio interview to Real Food Empire. The program discussed climate change, sustainability, and all things food and agriculture at INESAD, in Bolivia, and beyond. To coincide with the radio interview, today Development Roast brings its readers and Real Food Empire listeners five fascinating indigenous …
Read More »INESAD on the Radio: Real Food Empire
Today, Real Food Empire—a radio podcast on environmentally and socially sustainable farming and eating—featured an interview with INESAD’s Ioulia Fenton. The program discusses the institute’s work on climate change and human wellbeing, reviews Ioulia’s own research interests in food and agriculture, and highlights what Bolivia has to offer to those …
Read More »INESAD News: The Potential of Bamboo for Carbon Sequestration in Bolivia
A newly-released INESAD Working Paper reveals how bamboo forests in Bolivia have a significant role to play in the global fight against climate change. The multi-author paper, entitled “A Measurement of the Carbon Sequestration Potential of Guadua Angustifolia in the Carrasco National Park“, is based on a study of an unmanaged and …
Read More »Beer, carbon capture, and three other fascinating uses for Bamboo
Bamboo is a type of grass with over 1,000 species that vary enormously in their size and preferred growing conditions. Thus, bamboo is found in several diverse locations around the world: native species exist in countries in Asia, Africa, the Americas, and Australia. In many of these places, using bamboo …
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