Latin America
CIAT (Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical), a non-profit, international organization, is based in Cali, Colombia, in the valley between two cordilleras of the Andes mountains. It is a sister center to CIP, which is located in Lima and is one of the organizers of the Forum. CIAT works with agricultural and natural resource problems throughout the tropics; a lot work is carried out in...
Welshman Andy Drumm lives in Ecuador where he is involved in tourism and in sustainable development in a variety of different capacities. He runs his own ecotourism company (Tropic Ecological Adventures), is the Amazon representative of the Ecuadorean Ecotourism Association and has recently set up an NGO to focus on sustainable development in the Amazon Region. Matthew Gorman spoke to...
As this case study shows, women need to develop a project for themselves and be in control of it. It is suggested that women are from related groups or families and their group is small in number. A NGO can guide the group, but local women must have ultimate responsibility and credit for accomplishments is best given to the women, not the NGO. In this manner, the women acquire pride and...
It's a common observation: most people know about United Nations resolutions, but few actually read them. Partly, that's because of excessive abstraction: documents that may have profound implications for the world are written with a dispassionate prose that tends to obscure the disturbing often tragic events that led to their writing. And partly it's negligence: while the voluminous...
The National Institute of Natural Resources (INRENA), a public agency of the Agriculture Ministry created by D.L. N9 26902, has as its primary objective the management and rational use of the renewable natural resources and their ecological surroundings to achieve sustainable development.
The enactment of D.S. N2 01 0-90-AG created the National System of Natural Areas Protected by...
The sustainability of rural development initiatives (including forestry) depends greatly on the capacities of the institutions involved, the relationships among them and their relative power. Therefore a strategy to foster pluralistic approaches to rural development should focus on building the capacities of those who have typically been marginalized by development strategies and discussions...
A comprehensive work on the páramo plant diversity is now available in a checklist form. The need of this type of publication is increasingly acknowledged by the growing number of professionals interested in biodiversity. Despite its clearly aligned botanical audience, the book can serve to a greater readership because it touches the páramos from different aspects....
To the Kogi Indians of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, in Colombia, the Sierra is 'the heart of the world'. One man is at the centre of effort to restore that heart to good health.
The Kogi Indians believe the Sierra moves between good and evil, between day and night, between south and north, searching for equilibrium, says Juan Mayr, founder and director of the...
One of the last truly wild places in Guatemala is a two-mile-tall, 30-mile-wide, east-west mountain range that runs for roughly 100 miles through the country's southeast highlands. The mountains encompass parts of the Baja Verapaz and Izabal departments, beginning about 50 air miles east of Guatemala City.
Saving the ecologically dynamic wilderness of the rugged Sierra de las...
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