Los Tiempos: Bolivian wood seeks to captivate foreign capital in forestry business conference Next Friday [04/08/2022], the International Forestry Industry Business Roundtable will be held on the Fexpocruz premises and within the framework of Expoforest 2022. Companies from the United States, Italy, Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Ecuador, Peru and Argentina confirmed their participation. The objective is…
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Couple rescues bees threatened by deforestation in Bolivia
Reuters, Daily Sabah: A couple in Bolivia is moving honey bees to a sanctuary they created to address a staggering decline in the insects’ colonies due to deforestation and coca farming, which has encroached on their habitat. For 10 years, zootechnical engineering vet Eric Paredes and his wife Cinthya Callisaya Yujra have scoured the humid,…
Industrial agriculture threatens a wetland oasis in Bolivia
Gustavo Jimenez, Morgan Erickson-Davis, Mongabay: An oasis within dry Chiquitano forest in eastern Bolivia, Concepción Lake and its surrounding wetland provide valuable habitat for 253 bird, 48 mammal and 54 fish species. However, despite being officially listed as a protected area, cultivation of commodity crops like soy and sorghum is expanding and supplanting habitat. Agricultural…
Cacao – Bolivia – Cocoa
Webinar Dec/11/2020 – El Diario: World market demands Bolivian Amazonian cocoa Bolivian cocoa is one of the agricultural products with the highest current demand in the national and international market, and its industrialization generates significant revenues worldwide of around 80 billion dollars annually. Bolivia is one of the few countries in the world that has…
Bolivia: Climate change, inequality and resilience
[To read full text on both documents, click on every photo] Introduction In 2009, a team of Oxfam researchers travelled around Bolivia, collecting information about the country’s vulnerability to climate change and interviewing experts, government officials and NGOs, and most importantly, poor women and men, mostly from Indigenous communities, about their experiences of climate change…
Agricultura familiar – Family farming
From the producers Family farming the reactivation proposal Meeting. The unity of the entire sector that is in the production chain, from production, transformation and marketing, was raised. De parte de los productores Agricultura familiar la propuesta de reactivación Reunión. Se planteó la unidad de todo el sector que está en la cadena productiva, desde…
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