The following Executive Summary is from an excellent document produced by the Center for International Forestry Research, CIFOR, for the whole document, please use the link below: The context of deforestation and forest degradation in Bolivia Drivers, agents and institutions Robert Müller – Georg-August-Universität Göttingen Pablo Pacheco – Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) Juan Carlos Montero – Universidad de…
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Bolivia’s Rare Bond Sale Proves a Warning to Yield Hunters
From Bloomberg BusinessWeek, although over a year old of being written, it holds fully: Bolivia’s Rare Bond Sale Proves a Warning to Yield Hunters By Nathan Gill and Veronica Navarro Espinosa January 24, 2013 Bolivia’s first international bond sale in almost a century is turning into a cautionary tale for fixed-income investors trying to bolster…
Environmental impact as a direct influence against tourism, we MUST do something about this, and FAST!
El Diario reports: Environmental impacts affect tourist flow In recent years, the tourist flow to our country has been diminished due to environmental impacts on destinations that were once characteristic of our country and admired worldwide. Environmental pollution and persistent depletion of natural resources constitute the central problem that should concern society as a whole….
Encroachment is threatening one million hectares
Ernesto Estremadoiro reports for El Dia: Deforest protected area of the Rio Grande Encroachment is threatening 1 million hectares Report. The CAO accused the Deputy Mayor of Hardenman, of leading the wreckage. There is alert in the productive sector. The Eastern Agricultural Chamber (CAO) yesterday denounced the deforestation of a protected area in the town of…
Bolivia’s food security in peril; flour imports continue to increase!
Bolivia loses control of our food security, our producers are constrained with quotas, there is little if any protection for the investor, too many road/street blockades and rampaging anarchy. Those are a result of the incompetence of current ochlocracy in government. Bolivia needs to produce more wheat, needs to decrease the amount of imports and…
Bolivia leaves the leadership in forest certification
One of USAID/Bolivia’s most rewarding project was BOLFOR, it helped realize that our forest is more than mahogany, as more indigenous species were used and the term “sustainable forestry” was first known here. The statistics at that time showed that a hectare and a half of virgin forest were lost to find one mahogany tree,…
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