NOTICIAS E HISTORIAS

UNFCCC COP 30 – SIDE-EVENT “The Need to Recognise Environmental Defenders in the UNFCCC Process – Voices from Latin America”

noviembre 14, 2025

We discuss (1) the role of environmental defenders in climate action, biocultural diversity and human rights protection in Colombia, Peru and beyond; (2) challenges they face including mining, floods, forest fires, drought or carbon piracy; and (3) gaps of their recognition in the UNFCCC process.

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International Potato Center Peru – ceremony

diciembre 3, 2013

The 'Papa Watay' ceremony performed by traditional farmers from the Parque de la Papa to 'capture the potato spirit'. It celebrates the donation of rare varieties to the gene bank at the International Potato Centre in Lima, Peru

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Svalbard seed vault to take Peruvian potato samples

febrero 17, 2011

Farmers in the Potato Park in Cusco, Peru, are sending 1,500 varieties of potatoes to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault to safeguard the tubers' future. The samples will be stored in a vault inside a mountain, which aims to protect the world's food crop species against natural and human disasters, and promote the conservation of biodiversity and seed preservation.

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In highland Peru a culture confronts blight

marzo 3, 2008

In remote farms in the Andes Mountains, elevated thousands of feet above sea level, climate change is threatening a crop that is part of the region's identity: the potato. Indigenous farmers in Peru are combating climate change by diversifying the varieties of potatoes planted in the Potato Park.

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Peru’s potato passion goes global

febrero 8, 2008

For thousands of years, the potato has been the staple diet of the people of the Andes. Today, the agriculture minister, Ismael Benavidas, says the native potato is still the answer for combating food insecurity throughout Peru.

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