Amazonian Rainforest

My team has discovered a new population of sloths in the Amazon Rainforest. The team has a job of figuring out three things regarding these sloths. The team has to determine if the new population is evolving, how it is related to other sloth populations near it, and if it is a different species than the other sloth populations.

I have chosen to investigate the commodity chain of bananas from the company Dole and their contributions to spatial justice. This product interests me because I have previously worked in a grocery store and have seen the great rate at which these bananas are sold on a daily basis. I am interested in seeing how the mass consumption of this product affects the different locations attributed to the commodity chain of Dole bananas. I am curious as to what consequences or benefits the countries that house the banana plantations receive as a result of growing bananas, as well as the benefits that Dole receives from sourcing their bananas internationally effects. From what I have read so far, the commodity chain of Dole bananas starts in countries located in Latin America and Caribbean, such as Costa Rica, Columbia, Ecuador, Guatemala and Honduras. For the purposes of this assignment I will be tracing the bananas that are grown and packed at the Bananito Farm located in the community of Bananito, just south of Limon in Costa Rica; a community designed and constructed by Dole for the workers of their largest banana farm in Costa Rica. Once the

The country of Ecuador is adjacent to the Pacific Ocean and is located in South America.The important cultural knowledge to work with the Ecuadorian population is that most of the people are indigenous and there is a great lack of medical care and medical/health awareness.The dominant religion in Ecuador is Christianity and they speak Spanish as the primary language although they also speak various other dialects. The 2nd most common language spoken in Ecuador is called Quechua. The population of Ecuador consists of white Ecuadorians and African-Ecuadorians. Ecuadorians are warm and friendly and they hold family values in high regard. Not everyone can afford medical care in Ecuador therefore families work together and pass down natural remedies and cures to their relatives. Lack of education is common in Ecuador especially in villages with lack of infrastructure and schools and therefore it is vital to be able to connect

As many countries in Latin America, Ecuador was not the exception because of the poor prison conditions. Prisons are filled with prisoners who have to deal with the rudiment conditions. The Prisons weren’t created to hold such large of prisoners but Rafael Correa’s government is trying to solve this problem; facilities are built at a distant location. Being far away made almost impossible for families to

Since 2003, the United States Trade Representatives have listed Ecuador in the Watch List country in its annual Special Report and some people have started to invest in the gold production to gain money from it. From the resources of the rainforest, to the Island of Galapagos, from the snow-capped mountains to the active volcanoes, Ecuador has proven time and time again, as we see on the discovery channel, it has a plethora natural resources that can improve everyone’s eco system. As of now we know that Ecuador is second only to Peru for the gold growth rate in South America. Now with that being said, this is a great nation that could possibly be one the greatest resources to the United States. This country is growing very fast in every way possible not only in the agriculture but also in the formation of new resources that our country could possibly gain from. There is still a lot of work to do, but if we continue to help and train Ecuador maintain and secure their borders from illegal drugs crossing the Pacific Ocean, we, the United States, as a nation or country could have a safer America with fewer drugs on the streets and have a country with better resources; thus allowing us to be less dependent on those countries that we end up in war with

Did you know Ecuador’s natural resources, are not just beneficial to Ecuador itself but also to a lot of other places? With all of their resources they can export a lot of goods to different countries,and benefit their economy. Not just that but they provide the us with some of our oil and a lot of bananas and other fruits. Point taken, Ecuador’s natural resources are very beneficial.

One of the main features of Ecuador ’s economy is its dependence on only a few key export commodities, most importantly oil and bananas. Oil accounts for approximately 40% of the export economy, while bananas are responsible for about 17%, and Ecuador is the largest producer of bananas in the world. The rest of the economy is mostly based on less important agricultural exports, such as shrimp and flowers, which account for 6% and 4% of exports respectively. Ecuador is almost completely reliant on the success of these few industries, particularly oil, and so has suffered through a cycle of boom and bust economies over the past several decades, since oil was discovered in the 1970s.

The Amazon Rainforest is also called the Amazon Biome which is the single largest tropical rainforest in the world; but it is still being destroyed like the other rainforest. In the Amazon forest, it is a home of many biodiversity, including native and endangered plants and animals which can be found in the understory layer. The rainforest also contains the largest number of freshwater fish species, unique trees and different fruits by the Amazon River. Amazon is also has many common and exotic birds fly named Toucan. The insect in this rainforest can be huge and harmful. For example, the trap-jaw ant can be ¾ inch long with painful stings and it live with juice, alway sting when the food is threatened. Another example is the owl butterfly,

When I originally found out that my service-learning partner was from Ecuador, I tried to think of my initial opinion of Ecuadorians. Instantly the initial thing I knew about Ecuador was that they were a Spanish-speaking country. However, knowing that a country is a Spanish-speaking country doesn’t tell me anything about the country itself. So I began to research online pictures of Ecuador and began to view different stereotypes about the country. After trying to develop my first opinion about Ecuadorians, I came to believe all Ecuadorians are well-dressed and are good looking. From the pictures of Ecuador, my initial response was Ecuador has really nice landscaping but because of the layout of the Ecuador, I came to believe Ecuador is over populated. Places that are overpopulated usually live in poverty because they have a hard time keeping up economically, and this leads to further issues. As it turns out, my initial thoughts of Ecuador are along the same lines of truth that Ecuadorians actually experience these problems daily.

Ecuador is one of the healthiest countries in all of South America and has a considerably higher life expectancy than most of the countries in South America. They also have above average health care than other countries. Medical care is more than 50% cheaper in Ecuador than the United States. It is so cheap that some Americans travel to Ecuador for expensive procedures such as plastic surgery, large dental procedures and more.

After President Hugo Chávez died, Nicolas Maduro took power of the socialist regime in Venezuela. Maduro’s government has faced one of the biggest economic, politic, and social crises Venezuela has had (Hernández 2016). This crisis has generated a massive food shortage that has affected the whole Venezuelan population. Many scholars have proposed different solutions on how to solve the shortage, but it seems that Maduro’s only intention is to generate political clientelism to his party instead of finding realistic programs to solve the shortage.

According to Lopez (2000), the poverty level in Latin America is far worse in rural areas like Mexico and the Andean countries. Government agencies, organizations and intellectuals across the world have expressed unease about the extreme amounts of poverty in Latin America (Mamalakis, 1996). The exact level of poverty in Latin America can only be projected because of the high number of people living in rural areas. This problem is only exacerbated by the number of countries in the Latin America region. Lopez (2000) projects that over sixty percent of citizens beneath the poverty level live in rural areas across Latin America. Those rural areas are more susceptible to poverty because there is less access to jobs and resources. Whole families, including children, are impoverished because they are forced to live off of the

Cancer is abnormal cell growth disease, one of the foremost diseases in the world and most severe clinical problems in the world with increasing frequency every year. Regardless of avoiding behavioral risk factors such as tobacco, virus infection, preventive managements as dietary, medication and vaccination. The cancer disease still affects millions of patients’ worldwide (Sharma et al., 2016).

Ecuador has been a member of OPEC since 1973, with a break between 1994 and 2007. Its resource nationalism ideology is tied to this notion of oil salvation that seems to portray OPEC as its metaphorical Jesus, if heaven is modernization. But this has not been the case. This is not to say that OPEC disturbed their potential to use petroleum to propel themselves into modernity. OPEC is more of a symptom than a cause. Inherently, in a relatively unstable political region such as South America, there are issues with governmental integrity, as we have already seen with Ecuador’s trade barrier stunts. I want to argue that OPEC is a symptom of the Dutch Disease. Much like the Keystone XL pipeline would fix the United States and Canada on dirty fossil fuels for years to come (Natural Resource Defense Council), OPEC offers developing countries an infrastructure with similar effects. Given that its creation occurred well before today’s urgency of climate change, OPEC embodies the saying “the road to hell is paved with good intentions.” The easy avenue created by being part of OPEC drew members to invest heavily into their petroleum industries and almost nothing else. As a result we now have several countries hemorrhaging economically, with little option but to turn to OPEC for help. And what will OPEC do? They have already proclaimed inaction is the route to go right now

Ecuador 's industrial sector, historically oriented to producing for the domestic market, is beginning to look beyond its own borders. Throughout the 1990s, Ecuador made numerous reforms in an effort to make its economy more competitive. These modernization and market-oriented structural reforms continue today and are showing promise.