Peru
The 2010 Janauray edition of Mountain FOrum Bulletin mainly focuses on the articles' based on Payment of Environmental Services in Mountain Areas of different parts of the world. The bulletin contains total thirty two case articles and consists of activities done on PES in different environmental resources such as agriculture, water,carbon, biodiversity, ecotoursim and forest.
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Medicinal plant use in Peru can be tracked back for millennia, and although westernized medicine has become an important factor in the treatment of illnesses, many patients still frequent herbalist shops and retain some herbal knowledge of their own. The present study, undertaken at “Laboratorios Beal,” a herbalist practice in Trujillo, Peru, was conducted as a comparison to...
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...
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are often seen as incompatible with participatory processes. However, since the late 1990s, attempts have been made in numerous projects around the world to define “best practices” for improved natural resource management projects that integrate participation and accurate spatial information, using GIS (for example, see www.iapad.org/...
The Panos Oral Testimony Mountains Project included Peru, Mexico, Lesotho, Kenya, Ethiopia, China, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Poland. In each country, the Oral Testimony Programme (OTP) trained local interviewers and with partners, coordinated the collection of testimonies (usually 30-40).
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...
Millions of people around the world cannot open a bank account, obtain credit, vote, own or inherit property, get a job or a passport, access health care, or sometimes even go to school. The reason? Because they do not have a birth certificate. Until recently, thousands of babies born to single mothers in Peru were denied the right to a name because they were not registered by both their...
Des millions de personnes à travers la planète ne peuvent ouvrir de compte en banque, décrocher un crédit, voter, accéder à la propriété ou hériter, obtenir un emploi ou un passeport, avoir accès aux soins de santé et, parfois, aller ne fut-ce qu’à l’école. Pourquoi ? Parce qu’ils n...
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