The United Nations today launched NAZCA: a "new and revamped" web portal designed to encourage companies, investors, cities, and regions to cut their emissions and adapt to climate change.

NAZCA stands for Non-State Actor Zone for Climate Action.

Products such as organic maca, chia seeds, and organic quinoa, and lucuma powder are being shared at the Thaifex fair in Bangkok. 

One step has been taken in order to preserve and support the native language of Awaj�n. Marking Cultural Diversity Day, the Bilingual Awaj�n Civil Registry is being launched today in order to provide recording services to more than 70,000 speakers of the language, reports El Comercio. 

Traveling back more than a century, the origin of food trucks goes back to the hungry cattleman of the American west.

Since then, the United States has seen a rapid proliferation of the tasty (and once cheap) fast food eateries. However, Peru is only recently seeing the craze of food trucks coming into fashion, and they come in all shapes and sizes.

A generation ago, the Maoist guerillas seemed capable of toppling the government but are now largely confined to a remote pocket of jungle known as the Apur�mac-Ene-Mantaro River Valley (VRAEM). But that happens to be a top coca cultivation zone, affording the insurgency access to funds. Now, authorities claim to have uncovered evidence that the neo-Senderistas are in league with one of the re-organized Colombian cocaine cartels, ironically known as the "Cafeteros" (coffee-producers).