Bolivian cocoa in the verge to improve its quality!

Tatiana Sanabria reports for Pagina Siete: Swiss cocoa taster empowers producers Markus Lutz spent five days in La Paz evaluating grains of cacao from five regions of the country so that producers and entrepreneurs achieve quality in Switzerland. Fermentation is one of the secrets to get a grain of high quality cocoa, explains Swiss taster,…

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…

Amazon under pressure, will Bolivia do something about it?!

Miriam Telma Jemio writes for Pagina Siete: Amazon under pressure A group of researchers from nine countries conducted an unpublished work on the Amazon and the major threats that faces, which are reflected in the atlas: Amazon under pressure, which includes stunning photographs on the subject. In mapping language, the work presents a glance on the…

Bolivian deforestation 101

FAN is one of the most credible environmental institutions in South America. El Diario publishes a saddening and cruel reality: FAN-Bolivia reveals that loss of 1,820,000 hectares of forest, affects production, health and biological diversity in the country Research puts Santa Cruz as the Department most affected, 76% having been deforested at the national level….