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The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has highlighted the role of social programs run by the Peruvian government in lowering poverty and malnutrition rates in the country.
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Pomegranate is a fruit that has enjoyed a resurgence in popularity in large nations like the United States and Canada in the last ten years. Happily for Peruvian pomegranate producers, markets for the typically Mediterranean fruit continue to grow.
According to a report published by the market analysts at Maximixe, Peruvian production of pomegranates is up by an impressive 27.5% in 2013.
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Peru still has a lot of space to make up in order to develop a solid middle class, according to economist Pedro Pablo Kuczynski.
Peru's strong economic growth during the past decade has lowered poverty to less than 30 percent from more than 50 percent, and increased the size of the middle class.
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 Colombian energy firm Ecopetrol says intends to stay in Peru
Colombia's Ecopetrol plans to continue operating in Peru, although will not going forward to develop four exploratory oil blocks in the neighboring South American country, a spokesman for the state-run energy firm said.
The comments came after a government official said that Ecopetrol was halting its activities in Peru, making it the third energy company to consider withdrawing from the country in recent years.
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The opposition party Peru Posible said it is satisfied with the government's explanation for President Ollanta Humala's layover in Paris last week, saving the Foreign Affairs minister from a censure motion. Peru Posible spokesman Jose Leon said the party is satisfied with an apology given by Vice President Marisol Espinoza.
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Peruvian President Ollanta Humala met with Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu at the Government Palace in Lima on Tuesday.
Minister Shoigu was accompanied by Russian Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov during the meeting. Also present were Peruvian Foreign Minister Eda Rivas and Defense Minister Peter Cateriano, with whom Shoigu had held a meeting earlier in the day.
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Peru's First Lady Nadine Heredia has called for a broad strategy against hunger that includes health, education and gender.
"We need a consistent state policy with economic growth, social spending and public investment in basic services," she said during the observance of World Food Day at FAO headquarters in Rome.
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Peru has hosted the 2013 IMO World Maritime Day Parallel Event, with a seminar and other activities, focusing on this year's World Maritime Day theme: "Sustainable Development: IMO's contribution beyond Rio+20"". The parallel event was attended by representatives from the maritime community in Peru, South America and the rest of the world. Watch the video!
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Over the last 18 years, John D. Liu has been documenting the restoration of ecosystems around the world. On Oct. 25 he'll be in Lima, giving a talk on what he has found.
As a journalist for CBS news, John.D Liu was accustomed to reporting important world events, such as the fall of the Berlin wall in 1990. However, in 1995 when he was asked by the World Bank to document the Chinese governments� "Loess Plateau Watershed Rehabilitation Project," he discovered a more epic type of event: the collapse of ecological function.
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The car glided swiftly out of Lima, skimming past brightly-lit barrios before plunging into the darkness of the desert road. We were heading for a midnight rendezvous with a shark fishing boat. The owner of the rough and ready vessel had agreed to show us how they catch sharks in Peru: by killing dolphins and using the bloody chunks as bait.
Rumours of an illegal dolphin harvest have swirled around Peru for years, a secret slaughter involving thousands of dolphins, dwarfing the high seas drama of the annual whale hunt in Antarctica. Known as "sea pigs" by fishermen in Peru, dolphins are reportedly harpooned and diced up on deck, before being skewered onto hundreds of hooks strung out on long-lines at sea to attract sharks. It's a bloody business but it can save fishermen hundreds if not thousands of dollars in costly fish bait every trip. Dolphin meat is particularly enticing to sharks, and while substitutes are available, to the hard-bitten men who brave these high seas, all that matters is that it is free.
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In our quest to discover new wines from around the world, I must admit, I never thought Peru would be on the list. But Peru actually has a great grape-growing climate, so it should not be ignored. Peru is on the Pacific coast of South America, bordered by Ecuador and Colombia in the north and Brazil in the east. It has no frost and in many parts is desert-like and dry, much like northern Chile-which also has great winemaking potential. The Pisco Sour is the one of the most popular cocktails of South American, says Conrado J. Falco, the director of the Trade Commission of Peru in New York.
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Ministry of Transportation and Communications promises action on long wait times at airport, but does not give specifics.
Earlier this week, Peruvian newspaper El Comercio published an exceedingly unflattering portrait of the inefficiency and resulting hours-long waits experienced by international travelers entering the country at Jorge Chavez International Airport.
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Seattle may be cloudy this time of year, but an impressive collection of Peruvian art and artifacts is providing some sparkle.
An exhibit entitled "Peru: Kingdoms of the Sun and Moon" is currently on display at the Seattle Art Museum. According to Seattle Weekly News, the display includes more than 300 different pieces, spanning much of Peru's pre- and post-Columbian history. |
In the new show at the Seattle Art Museum, "Peru: Kingdoms of the Sun and the Moon," these older indigenous societies dominate half the space in an exhibit that covers 3,000 years of art and cultural history in 300-plus artifacts. And that makes the exhibition something never seen in Seattle before.
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UNESCO warns that looting at archaeological sites is putting important underwater cultural patrimony at risk.
Latin American heritage sites are at risk for looting- especially if they're underwater. Latin American cultural authorities are meeting in Lima today in order to discuss threats to and solutions for the protection of regional heritage sites. The summit, the "Ministerial Meeting to Protect Underwater Cultural Heritage of the Region," is being held at the headquarters of the Peruvian Ministry of Culture.
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The Peruvian region of Ayacucho was hit especially hard during the years of terrorism. Many people fled the area, facing hardship and restarting their lives in other parts of the country.
Among those affected were folk artists in Ayacucho. According to El Comercio, violence forced artisans and potential customers alike out of the area. Now, however, some have been able to return to Ayacucho, where their folk artwork has become a local attraction.
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This is the Salkantay mountain, Peru. With a stable climate and many small and varied habitats, the Andes mountains are one of the places with the most rare plant species in the Americas. |
The results of a major international research project show that climate stability plays a crucial role in the distribution of plants on Earth. Rare species in the Americas are restricted to areas of California, Mexico, the Caribbean islands, parts of the Andes mountains, the south of South America, and the region around Rio de Janeiro. The flora in most of North America and the Amazon basin, however, are dominated by widespread species.
Picture: This is the Salkantay mountain, Peru. With a stable climate and many small and varied habitats, the Andes mountains are one of the places with the most rare plant species in the Americas.
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Anonymous Peru has set its sights on the Peruvian Association of Authors and Composers (APDAYC), an organization that represents authors from Peru and other countries, and grants licenses for the use of musical works.
The hacktivists are displeased about several things, including the APDAYC president's "huge salary," the unlawful distribution of royalties, and abusive charges for music.
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A sea of coca leaves - the key ingredient in cocaine and crack - lies drying in the blazing sun as farmer Teodoro Alzamora complains bitterly about the grinding poverty trapping his village.
"Coca's what gives us clothes to wear and medicine when we are sick. It feeds our children," he says, explaining that his only source of income is the few hundred dollars, after costs, he earns per coca harvest.
"We are not 'narcos.' What else are we supposed to do? When we grow cassava or bananas no one wants to buy them. But they come almost every day to buy our coca."
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A Peruvian cardinal has suggested that the prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) may be "na�ve" in his attitude toward liberation theology.
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