Sostenibilidad

What if you had to restore a key archaeological site from Pre-Hispanic times but could only use Pre-Incan and Incan construction techniques? How do you find the right people for the job? Well it turns out that together with our counterparts in Salta, Argentina, we found just the right approach to this challenge, and it’s an approach that helps create new employment opportunities and skills while enabling communities to participate in their cultural patrimony. Here is the story. But first, some context.

Precision agriculture: a likely answer to Climate Change and Food Security. Is it accessible for everyone?

Dos años pasaron desde que se lanzó la agenda 2030 en pos de un desarrollo sostenible. Los próximos 15 años serán claves para implementar la estrategia con el motivo principal de erradicar la pobreza. Cada estado que la adopta tendrá que tomar las medidas necesarias para promover la prosperidad en materia económica, de salud, de protección social y de empleos.

The Annual Conference of the International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA) is the only international, interdisciplinary conference dedicated to the art and science of impact assessment. The IAIA17 Conference, hosted this year in Montréal, Canada, gives us an opportunity to share information, best practices, success stories, innovations, and lessons learned with delegates from all over the world.

Consultations are institutional mechanisms embedded in many Inter-American Development Bank’s (IDB) safeguards which consider the views of the stakeholders involved in its operations. They also represent an opportunity to build consensus on goals, and promote the engagement of beneficiaries to help them achieve environmental and social sustainability. The advantages of carrying out public consultations are usually clear. Nevertheless, their implementation in complex socioeconomic and cultural contexts can pose major challenges.

The world population is expected to increase to almost 10 billion people in 2050, and securing the supply of wood and timber from sustainable sources without competing for agricultural land and food production has already become a challenge in many parts of the world. In recent decades’ export-oriented industrial agriculture has become the main driver of South American land use patterns, increasing the pressure for more efficient and intensive production systems.