Latin America

Sustaining sanitation – Pan European Networks interviews Joep Verhagen

29 March, 2013 - 12:27
Source: 
Sanitation updates
URL: 
http://sanitationupdates.wordpress.com/2013/03/29/sustaining-sanitation-pan-euro...

Joep-Verhagen-PEN-interviewIn an interview with Pan European Networks, IRC Senior Sanitation Specialist Joep Verhagen explains how sanitation efforts need to begin to increase their focus on sustainability.

Oral presentation day 3- Workshop on "Exchange of experiences in water resources management between Europe, China, Africa and Latin America"

Submitted by Water Team on 7 November, 2012 - 12:36

Please find the "Water Quality and Sanitation" power point presentations presented the third day of the 

Oral presentation day 1- Workshop on "Exchange of experiences in water resources management between Europe, China, Africa and Latin America"

Submitted by Water Team on 7 November, 2012 - 12:26

Please find the "Water Sector Stakeholder Analysis and Participation" power point presentations presented the first day of the Workshop on Exchange of experiences in water resources management between Europe, China, Africa and Latin America.

 

 

Workshop presentations are now online!

Submitted by Water Team on 25 October, 2012 - 15:07

Through its global network of Centres of Excellence in Water Science and Technology, this event which was held in Ispra (Italy) from the 15-18th October aimed at exchanging and disseminating good practises in water resources management among experts from Africa(African Union/NEPAD Networks of Water Centres of Excellence), Latin America (RALCEA), China (EU-China plateform) and Europe (JRC and other experts).

Living without sanitary sewers in Latin America

18 September, 2012 - 23:09
Source: 
Sanitation updates
URL: 
http://sanitationupdates.wordpress.com/2012/09/18/living-without-sanitary-sewers...

Rojas, F. (2012). Living without sanitary sewers in Latin America – The business of collecting fecal sludge in four Latin American cities. World Bank, Water and Sanitation Program (WSP), Latin America and the Caribbean.

Water Week Latinoamerica - Chile : 17-22 Marzo 2013

Submitted by Water Team on 14 August, 2012 - 14:44
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Start 19/03/2013 - 09:29 End 22/03/2013 - 17:29

English version  here - WWLA MARCH 2013

Water Week Latinoamerica- Gestión Estratégica del Agua: del Concepto a la Implementación

Submitted by Water Team on 27 June, 2012 - 10:05
When: 
Start 19/03/2013 - 09:55 End 22/03/2013 - 09:55

 

Soy Farming and Land Grab in the Brazilian Amazon

12 June, 2012 - 19:46
Source: 
The Water Channel
URL: 
http://www.thewaterchannel.tv/index.php?option=com_hwdvideoshare&task=viewvideo&...

Large-scale soy monoculture is expanding rapidly in Latin America. Boosted by investment from multi-national corporations, it has moved well beyond the southern states and into the Amazon area. 

5 Ways to Re-think Land Grabs

11 June, 2012 - 18:52
Source: 
The Water Channel
URL: 
http://www.thewaterchannel.tv/index.php?option=com_hwdvideoshare&task=viewvideo&...

Our conception of land-grabs and global discussions on the phenomenon are a bit too ‘Africanized.’ They are informed too much by contentious, large-scale land deals in Africa and too little by examples from other regions (such as Latin America). This has led to many unfounded assumptions about the nature of land-grab.

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