It is a real shame where we fall under The Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Report 2013, from the World Economic Forum: The Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Report 2013 For the full report, please click WEF_TT_Competitiveness_Report_2013 Under the theme “Reducing Barriers to Economic Growth and Job Creation”, The Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Report 2013 assesses 140 economies worldwide based…
Category: Environment
What happens with our LEGAL Chapare banana’s exports???!!
El Deber’s editorial is striking!! Bolivia is about to lose its most important LEGAL, sustainable export from Chapare…!!?? The future of Chapare The Argentine Government has just closed its borders to the entry of bananas produced in Bolivia, mainly from the Chapare, creating a political, economic and diplomatic problem that the Government of the MAS…
Bolivian Environment 101: WOW!!!
I’ve worked with FAN in the past and certainly keeps up its prestige and expertise, kudos to them! Current Executive Director, Humberto Gomez writes for La Razon: Megadiverse Mankind is ‘consuming’ a planet and a half. In other words, we are living of lent Recently, I read a note on the efforts of the Government…
Current Bolivian government neglects to “listen to the people”, this time the mining sector!
An important public policy for our country, such as the Mining Code is not handled properly by current central government… El Diario reports: Industry fears a future surprise of the ruling Government is working on new mining code without consultation with interested parties • Bolivia is considered a country of “a small size” in the…
Bolivia: An alliance between scientific and ancient knowledge for production
Pagina Siete reports on an extremely important issue which basically boils down to: lets not reinvent the wheel… without losing competitiveness and better protection of our environment and health. A scientific and ancient knowledge alliance for production Small farmers who practice farming have consolidated a strategic alliance with the National Institute of agricultural innovation and…
A good or bad public policy for the Bolivian environment?
Pagina Siete reports on the new change in the environmental license requisite. Chances are that in order to “expedite” the willingness of current Bolivian government to offer more projects, the damage could be greater onto Bolivian indigenous communities and our National Park System, if current provision, later on, gets expanded. TIPNIS is not a small…
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