Alma De Walsche (born 1955) is a former editor of MO*. She is currently a freelance journalist.
She has been covering Latin America for several decades, with a particular focus on the Andean countries. She has also been writing about ecological issues for years, covering topics ranging from climate and energy policy to agriculture, food, and transition initiatives and pioneers.
She studied classical philology, and her love for Greece and Greek philosophy has never waned.
She lived in the Ecuadorian Andes for five years, working in development cooperation. She lived in a small Andean village surrounded by indigenous communities. It was there that her passion for Latin America grew and continued to mature during her time as an editor at Wereldwijd, the predecessor of MO*.
It was there that her interest in agricultural and land issues, ecological themes, grassroots movements and political analysis was fuelled.
In 2002, Alma De Walsche won the Filip Decock Prize for Journalism for her article 'Guasuntos is a global village' (from Wereldwijd, January 2001) about Ecuadorian migration to the US. In 2013, she won the FRDO Press Prize for her articles on sustainable development.
