Bolivia’s Best: Lucia Cuno—Helping Bolivia’s street kids dream of a better...
By Tracey Li and Natalia Zegarra “I come from a poor family but I’ve had God’s blessing to be able to achieve my dream of becoming a professional. I see these children, teach them all the values that...
View ArticleINESAD 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...
View ArticleINESAD 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...
View ArticleBolivia 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...
View ArticleCommunities need more than money to stop clearing their forests, new research...
According to a recent study funded by the World Bank and published in Science magazine, tropical land use change was responsible for 7 to 14 percent of gross human-induced carbon emissions between 2000...
View ArticleNews: REDD+ Transaction Costs and Games for a New Climate
In continuation with the SimPachamama launch month at INESAD, this week has seen a number of articles published around the topics of gaming, deforestation and climate change: What would it cost to...
View ArticleCould Unconventional Career Paths Stimulate Bolivia’s Development?
“There is no love sincerer than the love of food,” wrote George Bernard Shaw in his 1903 book ‘Man and Superman’. With the establishment of a new gourmet restaurant in La Paz, more of this love is...
View ArticleThree South American Crops that are Endangered by Climate Change
If climate change seemed far away, here are three reasons to reconsider. From basic daily staples to our favourite morning drink, climate change is already affecting crops in South America. The...
View ArticleFive Ways in which South American Communities Feel the Impact of Climate Change
Reports by the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the World Bank show that communities across South America are already feeling the impact of climate change today—and that these are...
View ArticleDeforestation 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...
View ArticleIncredible Internet Inequality
By: Lykke E. Andersen & Fabián Soria* According to the latest Bolivian Population Census (2012), only 9.6% of households have Internet access (either fixed or wireless). Considering that the...
View ArticleFather’s Day and teenage pregnancy in Bolivia
By: Lykke E. Andersen* Fertility rates have been going down all over the World much faster than most people realize. Fertility rates in Bolivia, for example, have come down from 6.5 babies per woman in...
View ArticleCan you envision a sustainable world? Do you dare to dream today?
By Susana del Granado * “A vision comes not from the intellect or the mind but from the heart, from the soul” Donella Meadows Today, June 5th , we celebrate World Environment Day and, as a celebration,...
View ArticleOil exploitation in protected areas – a contradiction in terms?
By: Lykke E. Andersen* During this week’s Climate Change Conference in La Paz, several participants expressed concern about Bolivia’s plans for oil drilling in National Parks following the recent...
View ArticleChanging Wealth – Changing Health
By: Lykke E. Andersen* Bolivia has recently changed from a low income country to a lower-middle income country, and with that increase in incomes the disease burden has also changed. In 1990, Bolivia’s...
View ArticleDoes Education Pay in Bolivia?
By: Lykke E. Andersen* Returns to education in Bolivia have been dropping steadily over the last 15 years, to the point that some researchers have argued that education no longer pays[i]. Nevertheless,...
View ArticleWhere are the poor in Bolivia?
By: Lykke E. Andersen* Two of the Sustainable Development Goals recently agreed by all the member states of United Nations are to reduce poverty and to reduce inequality, and for those goals to be...
View ArticleWho are the NINIS (out of school and out of work) in Bolivia?
By: Beatriz Muriel H., Ph.D* The NINIS phenomenon (that is, young people who neither study nor work) is gaining relevance in the academic debate. However, the meaning behind this word is still a black...
View ArticleDeforestation 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...
View ArticleBolivia’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...
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