Aspirin and structural transformation
A little over 20 years ago I published a booklet called El Naufragio (The Shipwreck), about the things I had learned in 10 years of work in rural development cooperation. At that time I was living in Central America, so I felt the problems very close to home. It is possible that my vision was [&hell
Is there such a thing as a fair price?
This article is published in Spanish in Planeta futuro at this link. Before the birth of agriculture, apples grew naturally in paradise and also allowed you at no extra cost to discern good from evil. Today they have to be grown with great use of natural resources and discerning good from evil is fu
Decolonising cooperation, how and to what extent?
(Automatic translation by Deepl, sugestions for improvement are welcome). In the world of development cooperation there is a lot of talk about decolonisation. This is about putting decision-making and resources for development cooperation in the hands of the people directly affected by aid and devel
Edward O. Wilson and his diagnosis of humanity in a tweet
This article was published in El País on January 20, 2022. On 26 December, Edward O. Wilson, the biologist, writer and naturalist who was called the Darwin of the 21st century, died. His work was key to understanding how evolution explains animal behaviour. He began by studying the social systems o
The white elephant in the room at COP26
In the room where it is being clarified whether or not there will be 100 billion a year for adaptation for poor countries, there is an elephant impassively observing the meetings. In the English-speaking world, this metaphor means that there is an issue that is obvious to everyone, but it is avoided