One Sunday a month during the summer, Peru's Heyworth Mason Park comes alive. The Peru Town Market has a mix of artisans, farmers, food trucks and music. It began just a few years ago, but has become ...

LA ENCANADA, Peru (AP) – The farmers who live downstream of what would become Peru’s biggest open-pit gold mine oppose the project, known as Conga, for one simple reason: Water. “Everything would dry ...

Gabriela Vasquez co-owns El Gato Chocolates, a bean-to-bar chocolate company that sources cacao beans from the San Martin region of Peru, where she's from. Some of Gabriela Vasquez’s favorite memories ...

The majority of the world's quinoa comes from Peru, where around 100,000 tons are produced every year. The popularity of quinoa exploded over the past decade, transforming the fortunes of farmers who ...

Archbishop Carlos Castillo of Lima (center) meets with members of the Catacaos peasant farming community in Piura at the cathedral of Lima on Sunday, April 28, 2024. (Credit: Archdiocese of Lima.) ...

People born in Peru after 2000 will experience nine El Nino events over their lifetime -- three times as many as their parents. - Copyright AFP Joseph Prezioso People ...

Healthy bat and bird populations don’t only help to keep the endangered tropical dry forests of northern Peru in equilibrium. For the regions’ farmers of cacao—the main ingredient in chocolate— these ...

(Reuters) - Last year, Guillermo Palmadera, the mayor of a remote area in Peru's Andes, was growing increasingly worried that a harsh dry season could spoil his district's crops of barley, alfalfa and ...