Category: General
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MY FRIEND LEVI
This is my friend Levi. He is perhaps the most outstanding young man I have ever met. He’s been visiting me once a month for more than two years now. He comes during the day with a colleague and knows I am busy at work so he never stays for long. Levi is soft spoken and humble yet very worldly and knowledgeable about life for a man of his age. He brings me some literature and we have a very nice discussion. No matter how busy I am I always find…
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FROM AMERY TO ADELAIDE: THE CONVERGENCE OF TWO LIVES
Amery is a dinky little town in the far north of Wisconsin. It’s a town of fewer than 3,000 people where pretty much everyone knows everyone else. I spent my formative years there and always consider it to be my home town. I feel very much aligned with life in northern Wisconsin yet life’s twists and turns led me to live in South Australia. If you took a globe and stuck a pin in Amery and tied a string to it and tried to find the furthest habitable place on Earth…
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LOST SOMETHING?
Some people have a knack for losing things … not me. I can tell you countless stories of how things I have ‘misplaced’ – wallets, phones, sunnies – have miraculously found their way back to me. And now I can add to that list a one hundred dollar bill. Padma and I received a card from Josh for Christmas and upon opening it we found a crisp new one hundred dollar note. In the card, Josh wrote, the money MUST be used to treat to yourself to dinner at Jaime Oliver’s…
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The case of Doña Pacha
Excerpt from Participatory communication in development: integrating women into forestry projects in Costa Rica A research project conducted in 1987 funded by the Inter-American Foundation, Ibero-American Studies Program of the University of Wisconsin and the Tropical Agricultural Research and Training Centre, Costa Rica. With the increase in reforestation throughout the country and the resulting need for seedlings, collecting tree seeds appears to be an potential source of employment. Nevertheless, families in the Hojancha area are not accustomed to collect them. The case of Doña Pacha is an example of an elderly…
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Asociación para la Promoción de la Mujer en Monte Romo
Excerpt from Participatory communication in development: integrating women into forestry projects in Costa Rica A research project conducted in 1987 funded by the Inter-American Foundation, Ibero-American Studies Program of the University of Wisconsin and the Tropical Agricultural Research and Training Centre, Costa Rica. Antecedents Although the principal agricultural activity in Hojancha is cattle raising, the declaration in 1980 of Hojancha as a coffee‑growing region stimulated many farmers to plant coffee. Extensionists from COOPEPILANGOSTA promoted the planting of shade trees in coffee plantations. With the creation of new coffee plantations the demand…
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COOPEMATAMBU
Excerpt from Participatory communication in development: integrating women into forestry projects in Costa Rica A research project conducted in 1987 funded by the Inter-American Foundation, Ibero-American Studies Program of the University of Wisconsin and the Tropical Agricultural Research and Training Centre, Costa Rica. Although located only five kilometers from the municipal center of Hojancha, the indigenous community of Matambu has many distinct characteristics and does not follow the agrarian pattern of the rest of the county. Matambu is characterized by its moderate slope, high population density (approximately 100 people/km2) and very…
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GOLFO DE FONSECA
In November of 1985 and January of 1986, I travelled to Honduras on assignment for the Asociación Hondureña de Ecología. They asked me to document a variety of environmental issues. Most of my original Kodachromes remained with AHE. I’d usually try to shoot a couple of frames of each subject so I got a few of the Kodachromes in the end … but my best pics remained in Honduras. The Golfo de Fonseca is a body of water in the Pacific Ocean, which borders Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador. Its wetland…
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Parque Nacional La Tigra
In November of 1985 and January of 1986, I travelled to Honduras on assignment for the Asociación Hondureña de Ecología. They asked me to document a variety of environmental issues. Parque Nacional La Tigra is Honduras’s first national park. I visited about five years after it was officially created to document its flora and fauna. The park is 25 kms north of Tegucigalpa and is 1,800 and 2,185 metres. I have very little recollection of the visit. I must have spent a couple of days there. I found a photo of…
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AT THE RAILS IN GUAPILES
I was 21 and found myself pressed against the rough timber rails of a makeshift arena in Guápiles, the Caribbean heat clinging to everything. It was August 1981, and I’d wandered into a Tico-style bullfight with no real understanding of what I was about to see—only that the crowd was electric, loud, and unmistakably local. This wasn’t the Spanish corrida I’d imagined from books. No matador, no ritualised death. Instead, young men—farm boys, labourers, thrill-seekers—stepped into the ring with towels and bravado, testing themselves against a nervous, powerful animal. The bull…
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