Aquaculture supplies almost half the global fish harvest, and Chile stands out as a leader in this ‘blue revolution’. A new book, co-authored by Dr. Michiko Iizuka, investigates the rise of Chile’s salmon industry, showing how technical cooperation projects from the 1970s and 80s continue to shape the economy. The authors cover a range of issues including capacity development, environmental sustainability, institutions, social welfare and inclusiveness – and offer lessons to other natural resour...
My ‘mygration’ story is rooted in the politics of a fractured subcontinent; politics that are emblematic of the region. My maternal grandfather moved from Delhi to East Pakistan during partition in 1947, with a desire to build a new life in a new nation. But in 1971 Pakistan was split in two. My grandparents became prisoners of war and were incarcerated in India, until being freed in 1974. Home then became Karachi in Sindh, the southernmost region of Pakistan. Reflecting their migratory heritage...
When people ask me where I come from, my thoughts inevitably take me way back in time to the early 1930s and to a place on the other side of the globe, the Japanese city of Hiroshima. This is where my story starts. During those years of economic crisis, tens of thousands of Japanese people, including both my mother’s grandparents, decided to emigrate to Brazil, in the genuine belief that they would soon be back home, having made a fortune after a few years of hard labour in the coffee bean plant...
Five years on from the Great East Japan tsunami and the nuclear meltdown at Fukushima, we revisit an article by Prof. Luc Soete, our founding director. Does Europe face similar nuclear risks? Recent developments in Belgium do not bode well. ••• On 11 March 2011, I was attending a conference in Brussels on Europe’s future energy policy, when Japan was hit by an earthquake. During the coffee break we were transfixed by the images coming out the country. At first it seemed that Japanese socie...