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Food
A man sells groceries at his store in a market.

Corporate Influence in Ecuador’s Food Policy

by Irene Torres, Daniel López Cevallos

Recent policies enable corporations to set priorities for the country’s child malnutrition strategy

Environment
Luciano Peas, a member of the Achuar Indigenous community in Ecuador, captains a solar-powered boat.

Amplifying Indigenous Knowledge

by Mary Brophy Marcus

The podcast "Seedcast" launches its second storytelling season

A nurse prepares a dose of China's Sinovac Biotech vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) during a mass vaccination program for the elderly, at the Bolivarian Technology Institute in Guayaquil, Ecuador April 15, 202
Governance

Time for a Health Check: the Reality of Vaccine Rollout in Ecuador

by Irene Torres, Daniel Romero-Alvarez, Daniel López Cevallos, Bernardo Cañizares

Immunizing nine million people in one hundred days will take careful strategy

Monica Samudio, 46, whose husband Jorge Garcia, 51, died from coronavirus looks out of her window in Mexico City on April 29, 2020. Samudio faced discrimination when she contracted the disease. Picture shows the woman looking out her window and partially reflected in the glass. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido
Governance

Estimating the Latin Wave of Coronavirus

by Rafael Lozano

Projections show potential impact of COVID-19 on Latin America—Brazil, Mexico, Peru, and Ecuador among the hardest hit

Soldiers on the Ecuadoran side of the border with Colombia, in Tufino, Ecuador, after their government announced the closure of borders to all foreign travelers due to coronavirus on March 15, 2020. The photo shows a border crossing with a large sign reading, Ecuador, and several soldiers in the frame. REUTERS/Daniel Tapia
Governance

Coronavirus in Ecuador

by Fernando Sacoto, Irene Torres

Pandemic highlights need for a future broad, multidisciplinary, independent commission to inform science-based decisions

Soldiers guard the Ecuadoran side of a border with Colombia in Tufino, Ecuador on March 15, 2020, after country leaders announced the closure of its borders to all foreign travelers due to COVID-19. The photo shows a simple border crossing through a small town with a big sign reading "Ecuador" above the street. The crossing is closed with metal barricades, and a soldier stands out front. REUTERS/Daniel Tapia
Trade

Coronavirus in Latin America

by Carlos Javier Regazzoni

How will the region cope with COVID-19 pressure on health care systems, weak economies, and unstable politics

Health care workers protesting shortage of medical supplies outside a hospital in Caracas, Venezuela on November 19, 2019. The picture shows an older woman in the foreground wearing blue hospital scrubs shouting and looking slightly off camera. She is surrounded by other protestors, many of whom are waving protest signs and also shouting. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins
Governance

The Human Toll of Political Strife: Malaria’s Rise in Venezuela

by Katherine Leach-Kemon, Lucas Earl

Crisis-fueled resurgence of disease in Venezuela threatens progress made by several South American countries

Picture shows weathered, rain-beaten buildings in the small Amazon Jungle community of Puerto Almendras, Peru
Urbanization

Unseen Diversity, From Jungle Hut to City Flat

by Jason Socrates Bardi

Study explores how diversity of chemicals and microbes changes along an “urbanization gradient” across Amazon rainforest