Andes
During 2006, InfoAndina led a meeting of the Andean Initiative (AI) of the Mountain Partnership (MP) held in Lima. This meeting was attended by representatives from the Initiative’s member countries, as well as from the Main Groups. The meeting was jointly called by InfoAndina and the Peruvian Foreign Affairs Department, with the financial support of the Mountain Partnership Secretariat...
Vicunas (Vicugna vicugna) are wild South American camelids that live in high-altitude steppes between Andean mountain ranges in the ecoregions of the Puna and Altoandina. The species is prized for its fine fibre, which placed it at risk of extinction in the 1960s. Effective conservation measures during the past 30 years resulted in an increase in vicuna numbers and now, the world...
Les accords de libre-échange conclus entre les Etats-Unis et le Pérou, la Colombie, ainsi que l’accord possible avec l’Equateur, ont été négociés avec la promesse de formidables opportunités d’accès au marché le plus riche du monde. Mais en réalité, ces accords vont avoir un impact dévastateur...
Los tratados de libre comercio de Estados Unidos con Perú y Colombia, así como el proyectado con Ecuador se han negociado bajo las promesas de oportunidades en el mercado más rico del mundo, pero tendrán graves impactos en los medios de vida de las y los pequeños agricultores, en la salud pública y en la regulación de las inversiones que protege...
US free trade agreements with Peru and Colombia, as well as the possible agreement with Ecuador, were negotiated under the promise of great opportunities in the world’s richest market, but the truth is that these agreements will have a devastating impact on the livelihoods of small farmers, public health, and the regulation of investment to protect the public interest. Furthermore, they...
Environmental degradation caused by urbanisation of the Andean piedmonts and related pre-mountain systems can be observed along both Chilean and Argentinean slopes, with a consequent decrease in vegetation productivity, biomass and soil moisture, and generation of heat islands. This leads to degradation of Andean environmental services such as water infiltration and flood control....
This report presents the results of a situation analysis of ecosystem services and poverty in the Amazon and Eastern Andes, carried out between September 2007 and March 2008. It intends to provide guidance to the Ecosystem Services and Poverty Alleviation Programme (ESPA) programme as regards the definition of research and capacity-building priorities for the Andes/Amazon. As such, the...
This paper investigates the actions of the Los-Angeles based company, Occidental petroleum (Oxy) which have led to contamination in the Peruvian Amazon. It particularly focuses on the human rights and environmental abuses that have resulted from Oxy’s behaviour.
The authors argue that over the course of 30 years in Achuar territory, Oxy engaged in destructive practices,...
Over the past decade, a multinational group of investigators has been working in concert to observe, understand and develop adaptations to climate change and its impacts on species, habitats and people in the uppermost reaches of the biosphere at high alpine field sites along the central Andes of Peru, Bolivia and Argentina.
La crisis alimentaria que se esparció por diferentes regiones del mundo de forma rápida ha comprometido seriamente la posibilidad de alcanzar una de las metas de los Objetivos del Milenio: la reducción drástica de la pobreza que implica lograr la seguridad alimentaria.
Según el Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID), los precios del trigo, ma...
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