Ecuador
- Capital:
Quito - Population:
14790608 - Size:
283560.0 Km2
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- The BLDS print collection
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- Paper discussing climate change impacts on water resources in the tropical Andes
- M. Vuille / Sustainable Development Department, Inter-American Development Bank, 2013
- Produced by the Inter-American Development Bank, this paper focuses on the effects of climate change on water resources in the tropical Andes. It begins by looking at recent trends in temperature and precipitation and the various atte...
- Ecuador's Yasuní-ITT: rethinking the conservation vs. extraction dilemma
- Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013
- Ecuador’s innovative proposal for not developing its Yasuní-Ishpingo Tambococha Tiputini (Yasuní-ITT) oil fields presents an alternative strategy for resolving the conservation versus extractive industry development...
- Using information for accountability and justice: lessons from Latin American civil society
- Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013
- Throughout Latin America, civil society organisations (CSOs) are exacting accountability by undertaking independent assessments of the implementation and outcomes of public policies and programmes. To get the information needed for th...
- Managing conflict through translation: Latin America's experience
- G. Damonte / Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2012
- Experience from Latin America shows how community consultation can be an important strategy used to manage conflict in Extractive Industries activities. This Brief characterises and analyses the different types of local consultation s...
- Strengthening capacities for climate change adaptation in mountain ecosystems: the Latin American response
- Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013
- In Latin America’s mountain ranges in Central America and the Andes, strategies to build capacities for climate change adaptation have generally been participative in nature and have aimed at improving natural resource conservati...
- REDD+ related risks, opportunities and safeguards for biodiversity conservation: a survey of issues and options in Lao PDR and Ecuador
- L. Schmidt / Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH, 2012
- REDD+ aims to create incentives for developing countries to reduce emissions through the protection and better management of forests. However, despite of generating multiple co-benefits for nature and people, there have been concerns ...
- Making the forest sector transparent: annual transparency report 2011
- Global Witness, 2012
- This annual report, produced by Global Witness together with a coalition of non-governmental organisations in Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Ecuador, Ghana, Guatemala, Liberia and Peru, assesses whether the right in...
- Ecuador’s Socio Bosque programme
- J. Fehse / Climate and Development Knowledge Network, 2012
- This ‘Inside story on climate compatible development’ by the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) presents Ecuador’s Socio Bosque programme as a successful example of a voluntary incentive-based scheme with ...
- Indigenous people are increasingly affected by conflict over resources
- B. Terminski 2011
- Extraction and transportation of mineral resources today presents an increasing social problem, leading to environmental damage and causing population displacement on a large scale. This publication presents a broad view of displaceme...
- Situational analysis of food sovereignty in the context of adaptation to climate change in Ecuador
- C. Rosero / United Nations Development Programme, 2010
- The document seeks to identify effective investment strategies in reducing the vulnerability of major crops for the Ecuadorian economy, the same as are set in the Basic Food Basket, so that the country can, on one hand, reduce risks a...
- Fundacion Futuro Latinoamericano (FFLA)
- FFLA´s institutional objectives are: To strengthen leadership and facilitate processes to reach agreements about long term visions and policies. To promote a culture of dialogue and systems of good governance for a change towards sustainable development. To generate and share learning for the construction of collective knowledge and capacity b...
- Red Interamericana de Agriculturas y Democracia (RIAD)
- La RIAD es un espacio abierto e incluyente de reflexión, intercambio y trabajo colectivo para la producción y divulgación de conocimientos útiles, que coadyuven a la formulación de políticas y estrategias de acción para el fortalecimiento de las agriculturas familiares y la democracia en el continente. En la RIAD participan actores sociales y personas que tienen el respaldo de sus organizaciones e...
- SUR, Centro de Investigaciones Socio-Económicas de la Universidad "San Francisco de Quito", Equador
- Research institute
- Instituto de Investigaciones Economicas, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Ecuador
- Instituto Ecuatoriano de Economia Politica
- Corporación de Estudios para el Desarrollo, Ecuador (CORDES)
- Research organisation on the economic, political and social situation in Ecuador
- Instituto Nacional Autónomo de Investigaciones Agropecuarias, Ecuador (INIAP)
- Autonomous National Institute for Agriculture and Livestock Research. Aims to increase the competitiveness of the argiculture and agro-industial sectors through research, development, adaptation and application of scientific knowledge and technology.
- Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos, Ecuador (INEC)
- National statistical office
- Agencia Latinoamericana de Informacion, Ecuador (ALAI)
- An alternative communications organisation working in Latin America: promotes communication with gender focus
- América Latina en Movimiento, Agencia Latinoamericana de Información (ALAI) (Alainet)
- La Agencia Latinoamericana de Información (ALAI) es un organismo de comunicación comprometido con la vigencia plena de los derechos humanos, la igualdad de género y la participación ciudadana en el desarrollo y quehacer público de América Latina. Su accionar se inscribe en la lucha por la democratización de la comunicación, como condición básica de la vida democrática y la justicia social. Sus á...
