Development Roast Giving international development a proper roasting

Guest Roaster Aliza Amlani shares her experiences from Colombia. A few weeks ago I began reading “Writing on the edge”, a book about Medicins Sans Frontiers (MSF) missions Worldwide. One reporter was in Phnom Penh in Cambodia, an area rife with malaria and unexploded landmines planted by the Khmer Rouge. …

Until recently, probably like for many of you, my imagination when it came to corn, aka maize, was limited to a bright yellow sunshine goodness, steamy and fresh on the cob soaked in butter and lightly salted, bursting with warm juices with every bite, the remnants of which I discover …

Metaphors and their associated cousins similes are incredibly useful tools. They can help break down complex concepts into easily digestible bites. Like a magic wand with a technicolor rainbow trail passing over an old grainy black and white movie, they can really paint a picture and bring to life concepts …

Food is a key part of everyone’s lives. It is also, however, at the core of many of the world’s problems and disagreements. Today, Development Roast brings you ten roasting facts that we bet you didn’t know about food. 1. 15 species of cultivated plants “literally stand between man and starvation” because …

In June 2011 this article was shortlisted as a finalist for the Blog4Girls competition held by Plan UK and was one of two eventual runners up. Her bosom swells with the type of pride that is rare to see in anyone. Heartfelt and genuine, it is completely disarming and induces uncontrollable ‘sonrisas’ …

By Dr. Wha Soo Park   I wrote this essay, when I was thinking about how valuable green forests are to us.  I came to Bolivia as part of KOICA’s World Friend Advisor program last December, and now I am working as an economic consultant at the Ministry of Planning …

I usually start these newsletters with a famous quote, but I thought these two pictures say more than any phrase possibly could.

It is no secret that the world is getting fatter. Lazy, greedy gluttons! If only you would just put down the burger, eat a banana and go for a jog. Right? Is it really that simple? I mean Weight Watchers tells us it’s all about point scoring and will power …

INESAD’s new book “Development from within” is a compilation of the Monday Morning Development Newsletters written by Lykke E. Andersen over the last 5 years. The foreword is written by Juan Antonio Morales, and the reactions of four pre-viewers are copied below. The book will be presented later this month in …

“I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it”  Thomas Jefferson “It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer” Albert Einstein Between the determinism of religion and the randomness of everyday life, anybody should …