Peru is the fourth main avocado exporter in the world having close deals worth US$307.9 million in a period from January until September this year. It means a 67.4% increase, confirmed Peru's Exporters Association (ADEX). 

The United Nation's 20th Edition of the Conference on Climate Change (COP 20) will enable to attract more investments to Peru, forecasted the minister of Environment, Manuel Pulgar-Vidal.

On the other hand, Peru's Foreign Affairs minister, Gonzalo Gutierrez Reinel, confidently claimed "the conference in Lima will be a success" due to the preparations underway. 

UN climate talks opening in Lima on 1 December will be pivotal to gauge political will for a new global climate deal.  Governments are expected to agree on the outline of an agreement to be approved in Paris in 2015.
 With overwhelming scientific evidence of the increased rate and impact of climate change, it is essential that governments make climate change a top political priority and leave Lima with a strong foundation for success in Paris. 

Four Washington University undergraduates and two graduate students will travel to Lima, Peru to attend the 2014 United Nations Climate Change conference between Dec. 1 and Dec. 12.

At the 20th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP), students will have the chance to present their own research and attend open sessions, negotiations and side events to learn about others' research.

The mining companies behind the Conga and Pascua-Lama mines are working to gain support from communities who have been worried about water pollution and adequate supplies.

Peru and Chile are at the forefront of a mining boom in South America that is driven by the rapid rise in gold and copper prices within the past two decades, though a recent drop in gold prices is putting a damper on the industry.  

Watch the technology behind the engineering during the Inca's historic period. Amazing! 

Alberto Otarola, the head of Devida, Peru's counternarcotics drug agency, announced on 23 November that the government had eradicated 27,800 hectares of coca crops so far this year, on its way to reaching its 30,000-ha goal for 2014. 

A Bolivian plane carrying drugs crashed in Junin, a region in central Peru, when it tried to flee from a military air patrol, the Armed Forces Joint Command said. 

"How can you govern a country that has 246 varieties of cheese?" former French President Charles de Gaulle once asked about his native country. Good thing he never got around to governing Peru, a country with 2,500 soup recipes, more than 3,000 different types of potato and 2,000 species of fish. 

Peru is a fascinating country with a diverse landscape, interesting history and lots to do. During my month-long trip with a university friend, I saw great cities, amazing wildlife and awe inspiring scenes. 

Peru's Export and Tourism Promotion Board (PromPeru) will participate in the International Luxury Travel Market (ILTM) to be held in Cannes Frances from December 1 - 4 this year. The fair intends to gather professionals linked to the luxury travel sector. 

The most stirring art has the ability to make us stop, think and even act, but a new interactive documentary made in Peru may just help decide the political future of the whole country. Created as a result of collaboration between the University of Bristol and London-based Chaka Studio, the Quipu project relays the story of a recent and very dark moment in Peruvian history. As many as 300,000 women in rural areas of Peru were possibly hoodwinked into being sterilised during the mid-to-late 1990s, all in the name of bringing an end to poverty. 

Watch the promo!

Project Piet�, an intriguing new brand of clothing created by inmates in Peruvian prisons, chimes with Hood by Air and Alexander Wang - and highlights the longstanding relationship between prisoners and fashion 

San Pedro prison in the San Juan de Lurigancho district of Lima is Peru's biggest prison. With more than 11,000 inmates in a space designed for 2,500, it is densely overcrowded, with many of the incarcerated trapped in semi-permanent limbo while they await official sentencing. It is also home to one of the fashion industry's most intriguing and stylish new brands. 

 Environmentalist Hugs a Tree by Marrying It

 

We've all heard of tree-huggers but one activist in Colombia took it to the next level, Sunday in Bogota.
 Peruvian environmental activist Richard Torres, right, and children pose for a photo after a symbolic marriage to a tree at the National park in Bogota, Colombia, Sunday, Nov. 23, 2014. Torres invited Colombians to care for trees and asked the rebels from Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia to change from making war to planting trees. Torres says that he intends to take his message of saving the environment to other Latin American countries. 

During the ceremony, young girls placed fruits and vegetables at the base of a tree as offerings.
Torres said he hoped the ceremony would bring attention to the man-made environmental problems in the world.
This isn't Torres' first time at the altar, last year the activist married at tree in Buenos Aires. 
 (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

 Men who helped Peruvian poor reunite in Kingsville

 

The 17-year-old boy from Peru and the idealistic young priest from Iowa worked together, serving the poor in Peru. They taught single mothers to read and coached a soccer team for street kids. They attended the funerals of children - too many funerals - who had died from contaminated water and lack of medical care. And when an earthquake destroyed the fishing town of Chimbote they sifted through the rubble and worked to rebuild.

Recently, the 80-year-old former priest was reunited with the young man he trained and inspired who now is 65.