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Challenges to Sustainable Agriculture in LAC
on Dec 31, 1969 in Sustainable Agriculture agricultura agriculture agrochemicals agroquímicos América Latina áreas protegidas beef cambio climático Caribbean Caribe CEPAL Climate Change Corporate Social Responsibility CSD desertificación desertification drought ECLAC ecosystem services irrigation land tenure land-use planning Latin America MDGs microcredit protected areas river basin management rural development servicios ambientales soya supermarkets supermercados I am in New York attending the Seventh Session of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD-17). This Session is focused on the thematic cluster of agriculture, rural development, land, drought, desertification and Africa. As is...
Colombia: Uribe’s victory and the pro-abortion campaign
on May 30, 2006 in Latin America Pro-life issues Uribe won the elections in Colombia last Sunday with a 62.2 per cent of all the votes. Those are good news, taking into account the consequences of elections in other parts of Latin-America. But looks like there are also bad news from Colombia: from...
Chávez and Evo: Videogames and foreign interventions.. of Chávez
on Jun 1, 2006 in USA Europe Latin America terrorism violence Spain Firms A US company, Pandemic, is going to sell a videogame, named Mercenaries 2: World in Flames, in which a US invasion is simulated in a country ruled by a tyran with the grasp of the oil refineries and with the final objective to throw out the tyran. Th...
Latin America Travel Guides, the best information for travel and tourism
on Mar 27, 2007 in tours tourism american citizens romance travel latin america Latin America is referred to all of the Americas south of the U.S., include countries such as Belize, Jamaica, Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, and Suriname where non-Romance languages prevail. Conversely, it is regularly used in Brazil and the...
Peru concerned about Chilean arms purchase
on Apr 18, 2007 in news latin america politics (JP-wb) — Chile’s massive armament purchase affects the strategic balance in the South American region and is always reason for concern, said Peru’s Foreign Minister Jose Antonio Garcia Belaúnde after being asked about a recent art...