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Peruvian Agriculture Leads Growth In Latin America

2013-06-26 08:49:28| Agriculture - Topix.net

Peru's agriculture industry recorded the highest average growth rate in Latin America in the period between 2000 and 2012, reaching a 5% increase and helping reduce poverty in the country's rural areas.

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Peruvian Agricultural Ministry Promotes Pork

2013-06-14 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News

PERU - On Saturday, 15 June, the Ministry of Agriculture (MINAG) and the Peruvian Association of Pork Producers (APP) will host a food festival promote Peruvian pork and pork products.

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NGO: conflict of interests behind Peruvian highway proposal in the Amazon

2013-05-16 16:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mongabay: As Peru's legislature debates the merits of building the Purús highway through the Amazon rainforest, a new report by Global Witness alleges that the project has been aggressively pushed by those with a financial stake in opening up the remote area to logging and mining. Roads built in the Amazon lead to spikes in deforestation, mining, poaching and other extractive activities as remote areas become suddenly accessible. The road in question would cut through parts of the Peruvian Amazon rich in biodiversity...

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Peruvian Ice Cores Reveal History Of Earth's Tropical Climate

2013-04-05 22:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

RedOrbit: Earth`s tropical climate history has been revealed in unprecedented detail year by year, for almost 1,800 years by two annually dated ice cores drawn from the tropical Peruvian Andes. In 2003, a research team led by Ohio State University retrieved core samples from a Peruvian ice cap. They noticed some startling similarities to ice cores they had gathered from Tibet and the Himalayas. Even though the cores were taken from opposite sides of the planet, patterns in the chemical composition of...

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