Join the launch of the Winter issue of ReVista, “Agriculture and the Rural Environment”. This issue covers topics ranging from agribusiness to climate change to new alternative crops. It explores the challenges and accomplishments of agriculture in Latin America and the Caribbean today.
Claudia López Hernández, former Mayor of Bogotá and Harvard 2024 ALI Fellow, talks about her career, what it meant to be Bogota’s first female Mayor and the future of her country Colombia. This event is co-sponsored by the Harvard Colombian Student Society.
This paper examines the impact of women’s political representation on deforestation rates in Brazil. Using close election regression discontinuity design, we show that women, when elected to office, are more likely to drive improved environmental outcomes due to factors such as reduced access to corrupt networks that influence the enforcement of environmental laws at the local level. Altogether, our findings demonstrate that women’s political representation significantly reduces deforestation rates in the Brazil.
This event is hybrid, to attend remotely register at the ticket link.
Presented in collaboration with the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
