El Diario reports: Bolivia purchases certified seed and exports sunflower and oilseed Bolivia continues to import certified seed. According to data from the director of the National Institute of Agricultural Forestry Innovation (INIAF), Hans Franklin Mercado Rios, half of the seeds we need to grow foods like vegetables and oilseed. He said that in a…
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They feed Bolivia but are neglected by current gov?! WTH?
Juan Carlos Salinas reports for El Deber: THE GOVERNMENT ALREADY ASSIGNED $7 MILLION FOR SMALL FARMERS Livestock farmers call for fairness in resource allocation Of the $30 million dollars for large producers, no disbursements were made yet. Livestock restocking program and infrastructure improvement in Beni has two realities. The first is that for small farmers…
Bolivian History 101: The evils of the Fatherland
Eric Cardenas writes in El Diario: The evils of the Fatherland 189 years ago in the city of La Plata (now Sucre) the Act of Independence of Upper Peru, before the arrival of the Spaniards was called Kollasuyo, was signed. The republic was the result of 15 years of unremitting struggle for independence from the…
Do Bolivian entrepreneirs use the web as in many other countries?
Gabriel Diez reports for Pagina Siete, excerpts follow: THEIR PRESENCE ON THE WEB IS ON AVERAGE OVER 10 YEARS Nine virtual business stand out in the Bolivian web The enterprises focus to the areas of real estate, service guides, specialized information and electronic commerce without “intermediaries”. Casasmap.com born 2009 as a university project and today,…
To those who doubt about THE American Dream … ask Marcelo Claure!
Here is an undeniable truth: the USA is the land of opportunities! Bolivian entrepreneur appeared on the front page of The Wall Street Journal! The article follows: BUSINESS Sprint Goes Off Beaten Track for New CEO Marcelo Claure New Boss Is an Entrepreneur Who Started and Sold Businesses By RYAN KNUTSON and THOMAS GRYTA CONNECT…
The thin line between CSR or just mitigation/remediation of environmental and social impact
The following article prompted an analysis of what really is Corporate Social Responsibility [Responsabilidad Social Empresarial – RSE] vis-a-vis development work need to restore the social/environmental conditions of a given site as a result of economic activities, in this case under the hydrocarbon industry. People in Bolivia tend to use the wording RSE to “demonstrate”…
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