Peru
- Capital:
Lima - Population:
29907003 - Size:
1285220.0 Km2
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- Tried and tested: learning from farmers on adaptation to climate change
- H. Reid / International Institute for Environment and Development, 2013
- Small-scale farmers and pastoralists knowledge and experience of coping with climatic extremes and uncertainty has been largely overlooked in climate change adaptation planning efforts. This paper draws lessons from this wealth of kno...
- Paper discussing climate change impacts on water resources in the tropical Andes
- M. Vuille / Sustainable Development Department, Inter-American Development Bank, 2013
- Produced by the Inter-American Development Bank, this paper focuses on the effects of climate change on water resources in the tropical Andes. It begins by looking at recent trends in temperature and precipitation and the various atte...
- Understanding childhood poverty as a multidimensional concept
- P. Dornan; J. Boyden 2011
- This paper discusses the methodology of Young Lives - a 15-year study of childhood poverty in Ethiopia, India, Vietnam and Peru, following the lives of 3,000 children in each country. The Young Lives programme is interested in c...
- Climate risk management for agriculture in Peru: focus on the regions of Junin and Piura
- M. Keller / United Nations Development Programme, 2013
- Agriculture employs about a third of the population in the Peruvian regions of Junín and Piura. Yet agricultural productivity is impeded by low technology and investments, as well as fragmented land tenure. Climate events alrea...
- Managing conflict through translation: Latin America's experience
- G. Damonte / Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2012
- Experience from Latin America shows how community consultation can be an important strategy used to manage conflict in Extractive Industries activities. This Brief characterises and analyses the different types of local consultation s...
- Multi-actor dialogues for better public policies: lessons from Latin America
- Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013
- During the past twenty years, multi-actor dialogues have played an important part in the consolidation of democratic processes in Latin America and in increasing the participation of organised sectors of civil society in defining and ...
- Strengthening capacities for climate change adaptation in mountain ecosystems: the Latin American response
- Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013
- In Latin America’s mountain ranges in Central America and the Andes, strategies to build capacities for climate change adaptation have generally been participative in nature and have aimed at improving natural resource conservati...
- Oil industry investment policies
- Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013
- This Brief presents a concise overview of the context of the Latin American (LA) oil industry and its performance. It analyses the advantages and disadvantages of the three main investment models followed, focusing primarily on the po...
- Focus cities programme: multi-stakeholder participation in city governance
- Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013
- Cities are challenged by a variety of environmental problems, most of which are associated with failures in the way urban growth is planned and managed. The International Development Research Centre (IDRC) set up the Focus Cities Rese...
- Local governments and indigenous peoples
- D. Gomez 2011
- This brief presents the outcomes of the Regional Seminar on Local Governments and Indigenous Peoples held in Chiapas, Mexico, on April 15th and 16th 2010. The report records the content, analysis and conclusions of the seminar based o...
- Instituto de Investigación Nutricional (IIN)
- Enhancing healthcare in Peru
- Comercio y Pobreza en Latinoamérica (COPLA)
Information portal on trade and poverty in Latin America
- Consorcio de Investigación Económica y Social / The Economic and Social Research Consortium (CIES)
- Research on economic and social policy in Peru
- Grupo Propuesta Ciudadana, Peru (GPC)
- Capacity building organisation in Peru focussing on governance and transparency
- Comité de América Latina y el Caribe para la Defensa de los Derechos de la Mujer / Latin America and Caribbean Committee for the Defense of the Women Rights, Peru (CLADEM)
- Human rights organisation in Peru focusing on social and legal protection of women
- Centro Peruano de Estudios Sociales, Peru (CEPES)
- Conducts research and disseminates information on rural development
- Centro de Investigaciones Sociólogicas Económicas Políticas y Antropológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (CISEPA)
- Social science institute of a Peruvian university
- Urban Harvest, CGIAR
- Information service on urban and peri-urban agriculture
- Red de Acción en Alternativas al uso de Agroquímicos (RAAA)
- La Red de Acción en Alternativas al uso de Agroquímicos (RAAA) es una organización que agrupa a diversas instituciones y personas interesadas en reducir el uso de agroquímicos en Perú. La RAAA, promueve diversas estrategias como el manejo ecológico de suelos, el manejo ecológico de plagas, la implementación de microempresas de insumos ecológicos, así como el conocimiento del efecto nocivo de los p...
- Consorcio para el Desarrollo Sostenible de la Ecorregión Andina (CONDESAN)
- El Consorcio para el Desarrollo Sostenible de la Ecorregión Andina (CONDESAN) formada en 1992, es un conjunto diverso y dinámico de socios de los sectores público y privado, que bajo un enfoque común y una sinergía de esfuerzos, capacidades y recursos, realizan y facilitan acciones concertadas en los ámbitos de investigación, capacitación, desarrollo e iniciativas de políticas que coadyuven al ava...
