Development Roast Giving international development a proper roasting
Corn, corn, corn; mountains of corn as far as the eye can see. The images of the piling up Iowa harvests were one of a number of poignant visuals brought forward by the 2007 documentary King Corn (available on Netflix). The fact is, US production of corn has been growing rapidly since …
Read More »INESAD News: “Challenging Accepted Wisdoms: Rural-Urban Linkages in Under-Nutrition”
Action Against Hunger UK (ACF UK) recently commissioned INESAD‘s Ioulia Fenton to help write the Guatemala part of a global report on the role of rural-urban linkages in under-nutrition. What this type of research originates from is the growing recognition that people’s lives in developing countries can no longer be …
Read More »Budget Constraints and Psychology
The following situation has occurred to almost everybody: You are on holiday and want to get money from an ATM cashier; the machine swallows your credit or debit card. This is worse if it happens during night when all banks are closed and even worse if it happens in a …
Read More »Guest Roast: “Cancer and Condescension – The Case of Iraq’s Imposed Epidemic”
In December 2011, the world media focused its attention on the official end to the war in Iraq. “Now, the last four bases are closing and their personnel are going home for Christmas 2011”, reported Al Jazeera. Yet nine years after the beginning of what many see as an illegal …
Read More »What Would You Buy if You Had Much More Information Than Just the Price?
Last week Development Roast asked you what you would pay for a beautiful purple butterfly silk shawl if you received positive information about the social and environmental conditions under which it was produced. Now how would you view products of lesser credentials if you received more relevant information about them? Would you buy …
Read More »What Would You Pay if You Didn’t Have a Price?
Imagine yourself in a different world. You wake up on an ordinary sunny weekend morning like any other and go shopping for a birthday gift for your mum. You go to her favourite high street retailer and find the perfect looking present, a beautiful silk shawl. You look for the price, but …
Read More »Graphics: The Power of Education—An Alternative Evolution of Man
A picture can say a thousand words. An infographic can say them better. Today, Development Roast brings you visual food for thought by proposing an alternative evolution of man and the role that education can play within it (click on the image to expand). Please share the infographic with your …
Read More »Highlights from the 3rd Bolivian Conference on Development Economics (BCDE 2011)
The Third Bolivian Conference on Development Economics was held at the Catholic University of Bolivia in La Paz last month with approximately 170 participants and 50 presenters, including keynote speakers Santiago Levy from IADB and James Robinson from Harvard. The principalorganizers were the Institute for Advanced Development Studies (INESAD), the …
Read More »Book Roast: “Food Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know”
In this 2010 book Robert Paarlberg takes a Q & A approach to a broad set of food and agriculture topics, covering aid and trade, obesity and famine, organic farming and genetically engineered (GE) organisms, and the food system’s effects on health and environment, among others. The work is a self-proclaimed …
Read More »Guest Roast: “Effecting Change Starts with the Community”
Noah Marwil, Latin America Regional Director of Pencils of Promise(PoP) shares his views on working with indigenous Guatemalan communities where ‘communities’ as such do not really exist. This past July, Adam Braun, the founder and Executive Director of Pencils of Promise (PoP), wrote a piece for the Huffington Post reflecting on …
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