Guatemala: An Economic Summit
Alysia Santa Cruz
Mr. Faulkner
AP Human Geography
5 May 2014
Guatemala: Economic Summit Guatemala has a rich culture that contains a variety of places to visit for tourists to enjoy. The increasing mixture of locals keeps the country high in history and tradition allowing travelers to engulf the surroundings with the Mayan ruins, diverse foods and dress, and interesting art and history. Also, the bordering Pacific Ocean gives easy and fun access to the beach for the incoming explorers, but Guatemala isn’t as enjoyable and exciting as it seems on the surface. The standard of living for Guatemala’s various indigenous people are existing in poverty and in an increasingly corrupt society, but our proposal to include aquaponics will hopefully help the developing country thrive. The standard of living in Guatemala is not up to par due to its position in the world systems theory because currently, they are in the periphery. During the 1990’s, Guatemala was severely hurt politically, economically and geographically that was caused by the civil war that occurred. Due to the devastating effects, it left Guatemala’s most populous indigenous ethnic groups in more poverty than they were already in, which excludes them from its social and political mainstream. The country’s level of education enrollment is very low with a rate of 39% that includes up to four years of school and 51% live in the rural areas of Guatemala and there are lower levels of technology quality and count. Guatemala has a life expectancy of 60 years that is caused from a strong presence of starvation, disease, sanitation and malnutrition that can be caused by the amount of arable land being used for exports and we plan to change that. Our proposal is to become open to the investment of aquaponics so they can be present in Guatemala’s non arable land. Aquaponics is a system that mixes fish waste and soil to grow crops and add nutrients to the production of food as well as purifying water.
Mr. Faulkner
AP Human Geography
5 May 2014
Guatemala: Economic Summit Guatemala has a rich culture that contains a variety of places to visit for tourists to enjoy. The increasing mixture of locals keeps the country high in history and tradition allowing travelers to engulf the surroundings with the Mayan ruins, diverse foods and dress, and interesting art and history. Also, the bordering Pacific Ocean gives easy and fun access to the beach for the incoming explorers, but Guatemala isn’t as enjoyable and exciting as it seems on the surface. The standard of living for Guatemala’s various indigenous people are existing in poverty and in an increasingly corrupt society, but our proposal to include aquaponics will hopefully help the developing country thrive. The standard of living in Guatemala is not up to par due to its position in the world systems theory because currently, they are in the periphery. During the 1990’s, Guatemala was severely hurt politically, economically and geographically that was caused by the civil war that occurred. Due to the devastating effects, it left Guatemala’s most populous indigenous ethnic groups in more poverty than they were already in, which excludes them from its social and political mainstream. The country’s level of education enrollment is very low with a rate of 39% that includes up to four years of school and 51% live in the rural areas of Guatemala and there are lower levels of technology quality and count. Guatemala has a life expectancy of 60 years that is caused from a strong presence of starvation, disease, sanitation and malnutrition that can be caused by the amount of arable land being used for exports and we plan to change that. Our proposal is to become open to the investment of aquaponics so they can be present in Guatemala’s non arable land. Aquaponics is a system that mixes fish waste and soil to grow crops and add nutrients to the production of food as well as purifying water.