Author: Gabriella Dobos
Peruvian Farmers Forced into Coca Production
The so-called War on Drugs, declared by Richard Nixon in 1971, has been a long and unsuccessful attempt to tackle the trade in drugs in the Americas. In the late 1960s and
Read MoreAvocado Mania: Pressing Environmental Concerns and Funding Mexican Drug Cartels
In the last fifteen years, avocado consumption has increased by 300% to a production of 4.25 billion avocados a year. Millennial trends have grown the popularity of this fruit and
Read MoreThe Need for Renewable Energy Sources: Answers Found in Lithium Mining in Bolivia
Lithium is a vital mineral resource in the storage of energy in the form of batteries. Bolivia, one of the World’s poorest nations, is sitting on the World’s second-largest lithium
Read MoreMass Consumerism: The Greatest Challenge to Sustainable Development in the West
One of the biggest sustainability challenges that the world faces today is that of hedonic consumerism and patterns of mass consumption in the West. The Western countries’ path of development
Read MoreThe Politics Behind Hummus
The Arab-Israeli conflict has been ongoing since after the end of the second World War as a result of conflicting claims of the land, Zionism, and, as a response, Arab
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