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...
View ArticleWhat 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...
View ArticleINESAD News: “Challenging Accepted Wisdoms: Rural-Urban Linkages in...
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...
View ArticleRelevance of Ancient Technologies to Today’s Global Problems
“More and more and higher-level technology” is heralded as the way that the human population will eventually get itself out of the global troubles it has wreaked. Under-researched genetically modified...
View ArticleLivelihood Diversification: Is That All There Is?
It is practically impossible to look into any part of international development without coming across “livelihood diversification”. It is a process whereby families in poor countries move away from...
View ArticleGuest Roast: A Native Perspective on Gold Mining in Guatemala
By Cathy Gerrior My name is Cathy Gerrior. My spirit name is white turtle woman and I am a Mi’kmaq Elder and Ceremony Keeper from TurtleIsland. I was given an opportunity to visit Guatemala by a group...
View ArticleGuest Roast: Mining Companies’ Violations In Developing Countries—Who Is...
By Grahame Russel Increasingly, over the past few years, information has been published about serious human rights violations and health and environmental harms being caused in Guatemala by (mainly)...
View ArticleINESAD News: Five Sustainable and Fascinatingly Fun Pest Management Techniques
INESAD’s Ioulia Fenton has spent the summer researching food and agriculture issues with Worldwatch Institute‘s Nourishing the Planet (NtP) project. Here is her latest article featured today by NtP:...
View ArticleINESAD News: Shopping for the human connection?
Today, the popular anthropology site PopAnth published an article by INESAD’s Ioulia Fenton in which she reflects on her time living and researching in Guatemala and the shopping experience that helped...
View ArticleINESAD News: Guatemalan Food Security and Livelihoods – Is Strengthening...
The Spring 2013 issue of the Tropical Agriculture Association‘s (TAA) Agriculture for Development journal featured a report on food security and livelihoods of the rural populations of Guatemala by...
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