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By Diego Mauricio (Regional Network of Water and Environment)       PIURA CITY, Peru – The Ministry of environment recognized in 2008the economic importance of the Andean páramos for the population depending on this ecosystem. That entitty’s former Natural Resources manager Walter Huamani affirmed that “we recognize that [the páramos] historically do have an economic value and the communities located at the highlands ever used it and know of that value.”   “If they don’t know of bank accounts, that is another issue, but they know [the páramos] have a value, and they use it and they live from it. The ecosystems feed the people, whether native people or surrounding people,” he said.   According to the Chira-Piura Hydrographic Basin Autonomous Authority, there was in 2018 a total of 929,247inhabitants through the basin, that represented 56% of the Piura department’s population. As well, Piura highlands s had a population of 55,889 heads of cow cattle wwhich ...

The science already has an answer about why Piura Andes' medicinal plants heal.  All photographs provided by Fidel Torres .  PIURA, Peru - The potential of medicinal plants in Peru is enormous in terms of biodiversity, but restricted in terms of usefulness. The  investigations are focused on their power for treatment or healing diseases, but they are not enlarging their own perspective to other activities requiring them too, as cosmetology or nutrition.  This narrow vision also limits the economic potential for the communities where these species grow. In the other side, many of these investigations only arrive to gather the knowledge of the communities where that  biodiversity is located, treating them as a source but blocking them to participate into the scientific process. Add to  this the risk that biopiracy follows to represent, that gets data and results but it does not patent them as owned by this  country but it compromises them as ...

By Julio Vásquez Calle   MONTERO, Peru – The former Sícchez [Seekches] District ’s Mayor Octavio Chuquihuanga Cunya, also former president of the Señor Cautivo Commonwealth, said in 2008 that the rural agriculture of Piura Department highlands is different to the agriculture in lowlands. Those differences are that offer a development chance, joined to the organizations, into an only development vision.   “Being this agricultural corridor [Montero, Jililí, and Sícchez], today it wants to be agriexporter when it is already exporting ecologic coffee to the fair trade markets, international markets, today we are going to make it with the ecologic sugar,” affirmed Mr Chuquihuanga, who also confirmed it was building the first hi-tech industrial processing plant of ecologic sugar in Sícchez District.   By his side, the former Montero District ’s Mayor Ramón Febre Palacios, also former vice-president of the commonwealth, shared the successful experience by exportin...

By Fidel Torres G.  

Photographs provided by AgroRedNorte.   Students of Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes School, at Segunda y Cajas Farmer Community (El Carmen de la Frontera District) and Innova Páramos Association, basedon Totoras Village (Pacaipampa District) presented two  filter drinks made of lanché ( Myrcianthes myrsinoides )and ushpa ( Vaccinium foribundum ),looking to blast the market of functional & nutraceutical drinks.   The products are the result of a participative investigation proposing to conserve ecosystems paramos and cloud forests at the Andes of Piura Department by using medicinal and fruit native species to make filter beverages. It has been promoted by Muqui Networ k and advised scientifically by AgroRedNorte .   They’ve been made by the own locals, this is used as a strategy to conserve the Andean highland ecosystems that are part of their territory.  The investigation is already as longer as than over a decade, it’s promoted by agroRed...

Almost all Piura region will have to be intervened for preventing problems caused by the abundance of water - or its lack.  By Nelson Peñaherrera Castillo PIURA CITY, Peru - One of the most extended prejudges by the people visiting Piura is believing that the whole territory is flat when the reality points out that the Andean Range , from its first spurs, occupies its half. And the fact is relevant when we want to explain natural events  like the floods during  a

Time to travel? FACTORTIERRA delivers an automatic tool to do your own forecasts.     Why should you spend your next vacations in Piura Department , Peru? First of all, the diversity of landscapes from the sea level to the snowless Andes that will give you different choices, from adventure to extreme passing through experiential. And maybe the most interesting insight is the constant weather – temperatures as well as feelings use to be nice along the year, especially since April to December… unless you want to enjoy our summer since January to March.   However, before to book your trip, or if you are up to take the plane (or the bus), it’s necessary you learn what the weather conditions are for your chosen destination. That’s why in FACTORTIERRA, we have checked out not only the most popular touristic places but others we have highlighted with our tourism tag on this blog, or our #visitPiura hashtag on Twitter. So here we have them classified by eco-regions ...