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Katalin Solymosi

Katalin es especialista de BID Invest en el uso sostenible de la tierra. Maneja productos de financiamiento concesional y servicios de asesoramiento para clientes deseosos de inviertir en su cadena de suministro. Anteriormente desarrolló proyectos de agricultura respetuosos con el medioambiente en África Oriental y Asia Central. Además, trabajó en políticas agrarias para países desarrollados y en vías de desarrollo como parte de la Comisión Europea y la FAO. Kati tiene un doctorado en el uso sostenible del suelo y una maestría en ciencias forestales y medioambientales de la Universidad de Freiburg (Alemania). Sus productos agrícolas favoritos son el café y la leche, de preferencia combinados en forma de un delicioso cappuccino.

Posts by Katalin Solymosi

¿Cómo perder peso, alimentar a 9 mil millones de personas y salvar el planeta?
How to lose weight, feed 9 billion people and save the planet?

Sustainable consumption as business opportunity Eat less meat! The BBQ fans out there don’t have to go cold turkey. The point is eating more vegetables, buying local, nutritious food whenever possible and minimizing waste by purchasing food with less packaging and in reasonable portion sizes can benefit your waistline and the environment. Conscious consumer choices and scarce natural resources incentivize agribusinesses in Latin America to produce more with less. From Brazilian cattle ranchers investing in pasture upgrades instead of deforesting to Nestlé reducing water usage in its Mexican value chain, the food industry has discovered healthy, sustainable consumption as a business opportunity.

The business case for buying less, but good stuff
The business case for buying less, but good stuff

I dare you: Can you buy nothing for a whole day? I know it sounds tough, but this was the idea behind the first day of No Impact Week at the IDB – No Consumption Day.

Germany wins 2014 World Cup in energy efficient stadium
Germany wins 2014 World Cup in energy efficient stadium

While the football battle of the continents continues, 50 percent of this headline will be true no matter how many goals die Mannschaft scores against los Albiceleste this Sunday. The energy efficiency part that is. Maracanã, South America’s largest stadium and the host of the final world cup game, is making history again 60 years after its completion. The US green building council announced recently that the iconic building, among four other world cup stadiums in Brazil, achieved LEED certification due to several design upgrades that result in lower resource consumption.