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We are pleased to announce that Dr. Lykke Andersen’s Development Roast article The End of Growth? has been re-posted to Global Economic Intersection. Check it out HERE. In addition, Ioulia Fenton’s Nourishing the Planet project piece entitled Five Types of Rainforest Ecosystem Services that Nourish People and Planet has been …

Over the last two decades there has been a great surge in land reform policies in developing countries. These land reform policies have mainly focused on rural property rights, and have consisted of giving small to medium size farmers, who for years have suffered from tenure insecurity, legal ownership of …

The 4th Bolivian Conference on Development Economics: The dominating event this month was the 4th Bolivian Conference on Development Economics (BCDE2012) which was held at the brand new EMI campus in La Paz on the 6th and 7th of November. The Brazilian Embassy kindly hosted a Cocktail Party the evening before the conference to …

Today there are 8 billion human beings, speaking around 7000 different languages, sharing the Earth with 8 millions different species of plants and animals. This is the amazing diversity of life on our planet, which is sadly under threat from deeds of large-scale environmental damage. Some are calling these ‘acts …

According to the Living Planet Report issued in 2012 by the Word Wildlife Fund Global, due to increasing deforestation, natural resource procurement, and habitat destruction, global biodiversity—plethora of plant and animals found on the planet—has decreased by 30 percent since the 1970s with tropical zones incurring a 61 percent loss. …

Tracey Li has an unusual background for an INESAD intern. She has been passionate about science all her life and studied physics at university before going on to complete a PhD in theoretical particle physics. Afterwards she continued her career as a researcher in Valencia, Spain, where she worked for …

“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.” Edward Abbey During most of the history of mankind, average incomes across the globe amounted to somewhere between $1 and $2 per day and income growth was only marginally above zero, averaging about 0.033 percent per year from …

 As part of INESAD’s November Environmental Sustainability month, today’s Monday Graphics series is investigating sustainability in businesses. This Global Sustainability Scorecard was compiled by McDonalds about its business’s sustainability. Many companies produce graphics like these to make consumers aware of their efforts to protect or contribute to the environment and …

According to the 2005 World Summit on Social Development, sustainability requires the reconciliation of the three elements of economic, social and environmental endurance. Up until not too long ago, companies externalized costs to society and the environment and took advantage of cheaper and more convenient labour in their restless pursuit …

“I’m not in this race to slow the rise of the oceans or to heal the planet.” Republican Presidential Candidate Governor Mitt Romney, an interview on “Meet the Press”, September, 2012. This month, Development Roast has published several posts offering insights into different principles and practices of green accounting. After our overview …