Decree No. 119 - Mining

This decree establishes the necessary guidelines for implementing the Mining Law of 2009, including administrative oversight, regulation, and the management of the mining registry

Executive Decree No. 2066 - Electricity Sector Regime

This decree aims to establish general rules and procedures for implementing the Law of the Electricity Sector with respect to the generation, transmission, distribution and marketing of electricity that is needed to meet the domestic demand through the optimal use of natural resources

Executive Order No. 1274 - Regulation of Concessions, Permits and Licenses for the Provision of Electric Service

This decree establishes procedures for granting concessions, permits and licenses for public service delivery of electricity

An agriculture and health inter-sectorial research process to reduce hazardous pesticide health impacts among smallholder farmers in the Andes

Authors are also recipients of the Teasdale-Corti grant (103460-068)Work with multiple actors is needed to shift agriculture away from pesticide use, and towards greater sustainability and human health, particularly for vulnerable smallholder farmers. This research in potato and vegetable farming communities in the Andean highlands worked with partners from various sectors over several projects. Increased involvement in organic agriculture was associated with greater household food security and food sovereignty. More diversified, moderately developed agricultural systems had lower pesticide use and better child nutrition. The Ecuadorian Ministry of Health has rolled out pesticide poisoning surveillance modeled on this research

Indigenous peoples, the city and inclusive urban development policies in Latin America: Lessons from Bolivia and Ecuador

The historical construction of indigeneity as essentially rural policy category represents a key cause for the ongoing exclusion of urban indigenous peoples and blocks progress in delivering Agenda 2030 in Latin American cities. Even in Bolivia and Ecuador where urban indigeneity is recognised through constitutional reforms there are obstacles to the delivery of policies shaped to urban indigenous interests. By reviewing experiences from these countries, this article highlights that policy delivery problems are a result of multiple factors, including (1) rural constructions of indigeneity, (2) conflicting development priorities, and (3) difficulties in promoting universal rights while simultaneously guaranteeing indigenous rights. The article concludes with policy recommendations for more inclusive urban development approaches which leave no indigenous person behind

The IPBES Conceptual Framework - connecting nature and people

The first public product of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) is its Conceptual Framework. This conceptual and analytical tool, presented here in detail, will underpin all IPBES functions and provide structure and comparability to the syntheses that IPBES will produce at different spatial scales, on different themes, and in different regions. Salient innovative aspects of the IPBES Conceptual Framework are its transparent and participatory construction process and its explicit consideration of diverse scientific disciplines, stakeholders, and knowledge systems, including indigenous and local knowledge. Because the focus on co-construction of integrative knowledge is shared by an increasing number of initiatives worldwide, this framework should be useful beyond IPBES, for the wider research and knowledge-policy communities working on the links between nature and people, such as natural, social and engineering scientists, policy-makers at different levels, and decision-makers in different sectors of society

Beyond ‘BRICS’: ten theses on South–South cooperation in the twenty-first century

Grounded in a review of past and present academic South–South cooperation literatures, this article advances ten theses that problematise empirical, theoretical, conceptual and methodological issues essential to discussions of South–South cooperation in the 21st century. This endeavour is motivated by the perceived undermining, especially in the contemporary Anglophone academic South–South cooperation literature, of the emancipatory potential historically associated with South–South cooperation. By drawing on the interventionist South–South cooperation agendas of ‘left’-leaning Latin America-Caribbean governments, the article seeks to establish a dialogue between social science theories and less ‘visible’ analyses from academic (semi)peripheries. The ten theses culminate in an exploration of the potential of South–South cooperation to promote ‘alternative’ development

Executive Decree No. 368 - Regulation that substitutes the General Regulations of the Law of the Electricity Sector

This decree states that all activities and services related to the generation of electricity will be provided by companies duly authorized, in free competition, by license or permit to be regulated in those aspects and circumstances that affect the public interest. Furthermore, it states that transmission and distribution activities will be run as an exclusive basis, regulated in conformity with the provisions of the Law on the Electricity Sector and this Regulation

Executive Decree No. 121 - Environmental Regulations in Mining

This decree states the environmental technical standards that must be incorporated in mining activities. Such activities include mining prospecting, exploration, processing, refining and commercialization

Executive Decree No. 475 - Creation of the Ministry of Electricity and Renewable Energy

This decree establishes the creation of two ministries, the Ministry of Mines and Petroleum and the Ministry of Electricity and Renewable Energy, out of the former Ministry of Energy and Mining. This decree outlines the roles and responsibilities for each of these ministries