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Bolivian Women Fight Prejudice to Be Accepted as Mechanics
[ad_1] Miriam Poma stands in the electromechanical workshop for high-end vehicles that she co-owns in the city of El Alto, adjacent to La Paz,…
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Latin America Is Lagging in Its Homework to Meet the SDGs
[ad_1] A view of the Altos de Florida neighborhood in Bogotá, Colombia. Overcoming poverty is the first of the Sustainable Development Goals, and in…
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Mexico Turns to Military Entrepreneurs
[ad_1] Sara López (C) and other members of the Regional Indigenous and Popular Council of Xpujil are seen here in a photo from 2020,…
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Civil Society Organizations Unite to Urge Public Development Banks to Change the Way Development Is Done
[ad_1] Opinion by Bibbi Abruzzini (cartagena, colombia) Monday, September 04, 2023 Inter Press Service CARTAGENA, Colombia, Sep 04 (IPS) – In the midst of a…
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New Challenges in Agriculture in the Face of the El Nihenomenon
[ad_1] If production decreases due to El Niño, there will be less food availability, and the income of the most vulnerable households that live…
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Vulnerable Women Suffer the Worst Face of Discrimination in Argentina
[ad_1] “Migration is a right,” read the handkerchiefs held by two women at a demonstration in the Argentine capital for migrants’ rights. At left…
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Biodigesters Light Up Clean Energy Stoves in Rural El Salvador
[ad_1] Marisol and Misael Menjívar pose next to the biodigester installed in March in the backyard of their home in El Corozal, a rural…
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Brazil Back on the Green Track
[ad_1] Opinion by Ines M Pousadela (montevideo, uruguay) Monday, July 24, 2023 Inter Press Service MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Jul 24 (IPS) – At a meeting with…
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‘Passion Seeds’ Fertilize Brazil’s Semiarid Northeast
[ad_1] Ligoria Felipe dos Santos poses for a photo on her agroecological farm that mixes corn, squash, fruits, vegetables and medicinal herbs. She is…
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Women Recyclers in Bolivia Build Hope, Demand Recognition
[ad_1] Sofía Quispe, the president of Ecorecicladoras de La Paz, finds a good haul of paper and cardboard in a municipal dumpster at the…
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Venezuela’s Educational System Heading Towards State of Total Collapse
[ad_1] The shortages of days in the classroom and teachers, and the poverty of their schools and living conditions, provide for a very poor…
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The Dark Side of Wind and Solar Farms as Sustainable Energy in Brazil
[ad_1] A view of the Canoas Wind Farm, owned by Neoenergia, the Brazilian subsidiary of Spain’s Iberdrola. Several wind farms with hundreds of turbines…
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UN Weather Agency calls for Robust Early Warning Systems as Latin America and the Caribbean Brace for More Extreme Weather Events
[ad_1] Aerial view of the town of Soufriere in the south of Saint Lucia. Sea level rise is threatening coastal areas of small island…
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Guatemala Clings to Democratic Promise
[ad_1] Credit: Silvia Rodríguez/AFP via Getty Images Opinion by Ines M Pousadela (montevideo, uruguay) Wednesday, July 05, 2023 Inter Press Service MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Jul 05…
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Women in Peru’s Poor Urban Areas Combat the Crisis at the Cost of Their Wellbeing
[ad_1] While cooking on one side of her wooden tin-roofed house, Mercedes Marcahuachi describes her long day’s work to meet the needs of her…
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Water Harvesting Boosts Agriculture in Brazil’s Semiarid Northeast
[ad_1] Eronildes da Silva proudly stands next to a bunch of bananas on his farm, whose large size is the result, he says, of…
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Women Suffer Harassment and Discrimination on Chile’s Public Transport
[ad_1] Perla Venegas is one of 1444 female bus drivers in the surface public transport network in Santiago, Chile, which aims at gender inclusion…
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Biodigesters Boost Family Farming in Brazil
[ad_1] Lucineide Cordeiro loads manure from her two oxen and two calves into the “sertanejo” biodigester that produces biogas for cooking and biofertilizer for…
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Mexico Needs to Step Up Treatment and Reuse of Water to Address Crisis
[ad_1] The expansion towards the mountains of the coastal city of Ensenada, in the northwestern Mexican state of Baja California, stresses the water supply,…
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Healthy Homes – A Right of Rural Families in Peru
[ad_1] Martina Santa Cruz, a peasant farmer from the village of Sacllo in the southern Peruvian Andes highlands department of Cuzco, is pleased with…