Development Roast Giving international development a proper roasting
During the first week of September 2014, the California-based film company GLP films came to Bolivia to make a video about the Joint Mitigation and Adaptation Mechanism for the Integral and Sustainable Management of Forests and Mother Earth, which is Bolivia’s alternative to the international REDD+ mechanism to reduce deforestation …
Read More »Bolivia’s Joint Mitigation and Adaptation Mechanism in the limelight
During the first week of September 2014, the California-based film company GLP films came to Bolivia to make a video about the Joint Mitigation and Adaptation Mechanism for the Integral and Sustainable Management of Forests and Mother Earth, which is Bolivia’s alternative to the international REDD+ mechanism to reduce deforestation …
Read More »Are married women really the only ones who need family planning?
By: Lisbeth Vogensen* One common indicator used in many family planning and sexual and reproductive health research documents is that of unmet need for contraception/family planning (see Figure 1). In most cases, this unmet need indicator is followed by this description: percentage of women aged 15 to 49 who are …
Read More »Deforestation reduced – mission accomplished or too good to be true?
By: Lykke E. Andersen* During the last decade, Bolivia had one of the highest per capita deforestation rates in the World (1). Apart from this being decidedly unkind to Mother Earth and exacerbating problems of wild fires, droughts and flooding in Bolivia, this also caused Bolivians to be among the …
Read More »Deforestation reduced – mission accomplished or too good to be true?
By: Lykke E. Andersen* During the last decade, Bolivia had one of the highest per capita deforestation rates in the World (1). Apart from this being decidedly unkind to Mother Earth and exacerbating problems of wild fires, droughts and flooding in Bolivia, this also caused Bolivians to be among the …
Read More »Sachsy development
By: Sanne Blauw* The logic is irresistible: if we send enough money to developing countries, poverty will be put to an end once and for all. We have got to help, it’s our responsibility. In the book The Idealist, Nina Munk portrays the charismatic Jeffrey Sachs and his Millennium Villages in …
Read More »Climate finance: Looking for synergies instead of additionality
By: Lykke E. Andersen* In an attempt to deal with the threat of climate change, many development banks and development institutions have established considerable budgets in support of climate change mitigation and adaptation projects in addition to their usual development projects. For example, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is aiming …
Read More »¿POR DISEÑO O POR CASUALIDAD? Los Bosques y el desarrollo agrícola de Bolivia
By: Juan Carlos Ledezma* La zonificación agroecológica y socioeconómica (ZAE) comenzó a aplicarse en Bolivia desde el año 1996 con la promulgación del Plan de Uso del Suelo (PLUS) del departamento de Santa Cruz. Este instrumento de planificación reconoce la vocación productiva de la tierra y acuerdos entre los usuarios …
Read More »Earth Hour – why I have decided not to participate
By: Lykke E. Andersen* You have got to be impressed by anybody who can rally several hundred million people around a cause. WWF has managed to do that several years in a row by getting people to turn off the lights for one hour every year to highlight the impacts …
Read More »We live in a dangerous world and not only rural, indigenous, old women are vulnerable
By: Lykke E. Andersen* Even the most affluent and powerful people in the World are exposed to the risk of adverse shocks and stresses: Christopher Reeve (Superman) became a quadriplegic after a riding accident; Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for 27 years; Mel Gibson had to pay more than $400 million in his …
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