Llamas, Weavings, and Organic Chocolate

Kevin Healy has taught in the graduate schools of Georgetown, George Washington, American University and Johns Hopkins (SAIS). Healy had a career with the Inter-American Foundation (IAF), a public corporation, which funds grassroots development projects in Latin America and the Caribbean. He has had a long engagement with Bolivia at the IAF and also managed grant portfolios in Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, and Honduras.

"Llamas, Weavings, and Organic Chocolate will be of great interest to scholars, students, and development practitioners…. [Healey's] work examines several areas of social and economic activity and delves into a broad range of issues relevant to the understanding and pursuit of local development initiatives in Latin America and, indeed, many other parts of the world … an admirable and highly informative work." —Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies"Kevin Healy's book … provides both insight and inspiration for anyone concerned with development where people matter." —Native Americas"Llamas, Weavings, and Organic Chocolate: Multicultural Grassroots Development in the Andes and Amazon of Bolivia is the story of Bolivian rural development and cultural change. Contains a history of anti-indigenous discrimination and narratives of nine development strategies." —Cultural Survival Quarterly"[F]ascinating book on multicultural grassroots indigenous development initiatives in the Andes and Amazon regions of Bolivia." —Human Rights Quarterly"This book is an inspiring and personal account of over thirty years in the community development trenches by someone who was by turns, a Peace Corps volunteer, a PhD researcher, and now for many years a Foundation representative for Bolivia for the Inter-American Foundation." —Mountain Research and Development"Kevin Healy's book tells us how they did it and provides both insight and inspiration for anyone concerned with development as if people mattered." —Grassroots Development, Journal of the Inter-American Foundation"[A]n important corrective to recent development debates. Healy's impressive work indicates what is possible, and is, therefore, a political contribution in the best sense of the term." —American Anthropologist