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OPS - INCAP Instituto de Nutrición de Centro América y Panamá - INCAP presenta el Sistema de Información para la Vigilancia, Monitoreo y Evaluación de la SAN
this is the new Atlas for Central America. it includes maps of stunting underweight and overweight. It also gives the tabular data. The application includes the Dominican Republic and Haiti.
OPS - INCAP Instituto de Nutrición de Centro América y Panamá - INCAP presenta el Sistema de Información para la Vigilancia, Monitoreo y Evaluación de la SAN
there is a new system are monitoring food security in Central America. Looks interesting.
Latin America Donor Index
The goal of the Index is to help both non-profits and philanthropic organizations active in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) easily identify potential donors and strategic allies. We do this by consolidating and providing free access to information about donors based in the LAC region, the United States, and Europe. For us, donors include: private donors such as foundations, corporate giving programs, international non-governmental organizations, official development agencies, and local nonprofits with grant making programs.
Bowman expedition contreversy
Long article, from a "left" perspective, on the Bowman expedition in Oaxaca, Mexico. A great way to see this viewpoint - and they have lots of valid points...
Portal de búsqueda, visualización y descarga de información y datos espaciales
Geonetwork site for Ecuador
LAC- Poverty Maps
THIS page has a comprehensive list of poverty maps for LAC. But it does not give the full reference.
To the Heavens From the Jungle’s Edge - NYTimes.com
Interesting piece about Kourou, French Guiana. I visited this country in the late 1990s and this French space station is a big part of what goes on (would be interesting to know how much of GDP it is responsible for).
Beans in Costa Rica
Story about the bean production community in Costa Rica. These guys would be good to work through.
Latin American Network Information Center - LANIC
An excellent source of information on everything about Latin America....
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A new Atlas from Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) with country level indicators of health, nutrition, demographics and socioeconomics
The Fungus That Conquered Europe - New York Times
Nice article on the Irish potato famine....should check out this guy's book on the history of the potato.
DIGITAL POVERTY: Latin American and Caribbean Perspectives
This is a book on the web about "digital poverty" in LAC.
Poverty, Environmental Services, LAC
This is a workshop summary, but it could be useful for our desakota lit review....
WorldwideRemittances.jpg (JPEG Image, 928x555 pixels)
Total Remittances to Developing Countries: $US 301 Billion....this is a map with regional and some country breakdowns....but not really a map, just the values....
geografwiki: WELCOME : BIENVENIDOS : BOAVINDA : BIENVENUE
This is the page for geographers in the Americas. This could be very good if lots of people participate.
Mexico Metadata Distribution Center
This goes out and searches different nodes. I did not find anything on roads, and have not tried anything else.
MEXICO ...BUSCADOR DE MAPAS DE LA SEMARNAT
search engine for Mexican GIS data
Guatemala Univalle SD clearinghous
Univalle-Guatemala's web site and spatial data clearinghouse...
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