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Peru's ancient irrigation systems turned deserts into farms because of the culture. Without it, the systems failed
Seeing the north coast of Peru for the first time, you would be hard-pressed to believe it's one of the driest deserts in the ...
Peru’s ancient irrigation systems succeeded in turning deserts into farms because of the culture − without it, the systems failed
Ancient practices hold important lessons for farmers facing drying lands, but they were often more complex than modern ...
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Andean Women Farmers in Peru Face Climate Crisis with Green Practices
With rain, hail, and frost coming at the wrong time, a group of Andean farmers living 3,000 meters above sea level have ...
Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian author and Nobel literature laureate, dies at 89
Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel literature laureate and a giant of Latin American letters for many decades, has ...
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Shrinking Andean glaciers threaten water supply of 90 million people, scientists warn
The glaciers that sit high in the Andes—or Andean Mountain Range—extend through Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia ... to the water and food security of the millions of people ...
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Peru's Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel prize-winning novelist, dies at 89
"The Storyteller" (1987) deals with the clash of Indigenous and European cultures in Peru, while "Death in the Andes" (1993 ... Africacategory At least 148 people die after boat catches fire ...
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Contentious Copper Boom Sparks Existential Mining Crisis in Peru
An Indigenous community in the heart of the Peruvian Andes is doing what most of its ... with other material to boost buyers’ profits, people familiar with the global copper trade said in ...
Peru mourns death of Nobel laureate writer Vargas Llosa
Peruvians mourned the death on Monday of lauded writer Mario Vargas Llosa, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature and a ...
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Mario Vargas Llosa: Giant of Latin American literature dies at 89
In 1983 Vargas Llosa was appointed president of a commission investigating the gruesome killing in a village in the Peruvian Andes of eight journalists, which became known as the Uchuraccay massacre.