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The United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has hailed Peru's government for its ongoing efforts in eradicating poverty in the country's rural areas within the framework of the International Year of Family Farming (IYFF). |
 The implementation of the "Include to Grow" strategy is tackling poverty and bridging inequality gap in Peru by bringing quality of life for people in the country's most deprived areas, President Ollanta Humala announced Tuesday.
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 Peruvian government is keen on expanding and diversifying the Andean nation's export supply as well as signing a free trade agreement (FTA) with Russia,the country's Foreign Minister Eda Rivas has said.
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 Eleven Indian enterprises closed business deals worth US$ 1.85 with their Peruvian counterparts at the 1st Business Roundtable and Exhibition of India's Garment Industry (Intexpo) in the Andean nation. According to India's Synthetic and Rayon Textiles Export Promotion Council (SRTEPC), the recently-concluded trade fair sought to establish trade contacts among Indian entrepreneurs with leading businesses engaged in Peru's textile and apparel sector.
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 More than 25,000 visitors are expected to attend the 4th annual edition of the Expo Amazonica Fair, the nation's largest trade event in the industries of tourism, trade and gastronomy of Peru's Amazonian regions.
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Investment in Peru's mining sector amounted to $25.47 billion from 2011 to 2013, accounting for 21% of all private sector investments in the country, according to the local mining, oil and energy society, SNMPE.
"The Peruvian mining sector has been affected by the decrease in international prices but the investment rate was maintained because investors have placed their trust in Peru," Eva Arias de Sologuren said.
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Major U.S headquartered engineering company, Fluor Corporation, has received a limited notice to proceed from Anglo American for engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) services for the Quellaveco copper project in Peru, one of the biggest copper projects in Peru. Includes a copper production facility and port expansion. Fluor will provide project planning and early engineering services.
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Peru's government reports it has identified almost 9,000 environmental liabilities, many of which are due to mining.
Mining director Edgardo Alva said that almost 1,200 of the contaminated sites are in the Ancash region, while 1,048 were in Puno and another 1,022 in Cajamarca. All three regions are important mining districts.
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Financial independence for women is an important step toward development, said Vice Minister of Women's issues Marcela Huaita.
"The State plays a central role in promoting economic empowerment for women, directly, and through intervention in connected factors," Andina news agency quotes Huaita as saying.
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The Council of the European Union (EU) approved on Tuesday a regulation to eliminate Schengen Visa requirements for citizens from Peru, thus allowing them visa-free travel to any of all the 26 Schengen states for short stays of up to 90 days.
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Foreign Minister Eda Rivas reminded the nation that there are still a number of steps to be completed before visa requirements for the Schengen area can be eliminated.
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Peru this Week's new legal bloggers, Sergio Vargas and Maureen Santucci bring you clear and concise instructions on how to take advantage of the new Amnesty.
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Ricardo Zarate opened Paiche last April with then-partner Stephane Bombet, just off the heels of his return to Downtown with Mo-Chica, and a few years after establishing himself as one of the city's top chefs at Picca in Beverly Hills. Since then, Paiche has earned a Best New Restaurant nod from Esquire, no small feat for a restaurant in relatively sleepy Marina del Rey. Here now, Zarate sits down with Eater to talk about some of the minor and more significant changes he's made to what could be called his most ambitious concept, a melding of Japanese and Peruvian flavors.
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Travel the stretch of the Oceanic South, between Nasca and Cusco. A trip that will give you many surprises. There are more geographical contrasts over this 650 km long road than over any five thousand in Europe. It may be one of the most bio-diverse routes in the world and it's one of the trips that everyone should have a go at trekking. |
 Daniel Susnjar was not too sure what to expect when he went to a New York jazz club to hear Afro-Peruvian music. As an accomplished drummer already studying in the US, Susnjar knew the rhythms and sounds of the drumming would be different but he was unprepared for how appealing the sounds would be.
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 Sam Baker didn't start writing music until he'd come very close to the other side. In 1986, he was on a train in Peru, en route to Machu Picchu, when a bomb planted by the Peruvian terrorist group Shining Path exploded in the luggage rack above him. The people he was sitting with were killed. His body was torn apart. He had a brain injury and severe hearing loss, and he required more than 15 reconstructive surgeries.
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 US immigrations authorities have granted one Peruvian woman a temporary parole so she can say goodbye to her husband of 25 years. Natalia Campana, a Peruvian citizen who had been deported from the US, was allowed back into the country in order to attend her husband's funeral after his sudden death.
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 The Peruvian constitutional court (referred to in Spanish as the "Tribunal Constitucional," or TC), has struck down a transgender woman's request that she be allowed to change her gender from male to female on her national identity document (DNI).
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