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Written and photographed by Mariluz Mejía, distributed by agrored Norte.   Girls and teenagers of Provinces Ayabaca and Huancabamba, highlands of Piura Departmen t , participate in the ethnical-botanical investigation made by Agrored Norte & Mountain Institute , funded by Peru’s National Council of Science & Technology, Ministry of environment, and Ministry of Agrarian Development & Irrigation, about the potential of wild fruit species of páramos and cloud forests .   They are high-school students of Totora school, Pacaipampa District ( Ayabaca Province ) and Cajas-Shapaya’s Virgen del Carmen School, El Carmen de la Frontera District ( Huancabamba Province ).   Those girls and teenagers mean a potential in scientific knowledge generation to value the riches of Piura Andes biodiversity, that belongs to the families living around the páramos and cloud forest ecosystems   The contribution of the girls’ knowledge  about  the ...

Why is good the students know how speaking to a computer.   By Nelson Peñaherrera Castillo . Photos Courtesy by Iván Rotta Saavedra .   SULLANA, Peru – The first time I sat down in front of a computer was in 1986. Actually, it was in front of some Atari or Commodore keyboard plugged to a 14-inch white-&-black TV during a vacation class. It was the time when Michael Knight spent speaking with a Pontiac car’s computer in an emblematic TV series, apparently science-fiction that time. Today, many time later, I speak to my smartphone ’s computer when I need verified answers about specific topics which I even write this article. We are not talking about artificial intelligence only. Before it, the process to manage orders and have results have to do with programming the device for it gives me a product or result. In a free etimology , programming means writing or outlining with anticipation, and amid the computation world, it means setting up a set of orders a...

By Nelson Peñaherrera Castillo . Photographs provided by Antenor Orrego Private University.   Photos by Antenor Orrego Private University.   Photo by erick Aquino.   PIURA CITY, Peru – Without intention,Marcela Temple Seminario became one of the most powerful women in earth, she knew how to use  it – the wife of former United Nations Organization’s General Secretary Javier Perez de Cuellar served the poorest people.   Through a prestigious international newspaper, she published a letter asking for solidarity with Timbocttu, Mali, an African country where the kids lived in extreme poverty. She impressed to see the flies putting on the children’s skin.   The post was successful, moved the entire world… or that happened in the 1980s, at least. Few people know Marcela Temple born and raised in Piura. Her family’s house is still in the downtown, inside the so-called Monumental Zone .   It’s one of dozen  of buildings framed in...

This is the script prepared to be spoken before AgroRed Norte Summit in Piura City, Peru, on July 17 th , 2015.   By Nelson Peñaherrera Castillo   March 2013, the first and last time I was in an AgroRed Norte Summit. It was an important proffessional milestone to me. I thank the organization about that. A day later I presented before you, a History Latin America network’s crew picked me up early in Sullana City for working almost all that day. They wanted to record our testimonial because of a story we published on FACTORTIERRA  on 2008 .   In July 2013, landscapes of Malingas , a rural community in Tambograndé District , Peru, entered 40 million homes along Latin America and they hold on until now by reprises.   On that first hearing before AgroRed Norte Summit, I went to request you for supporting the need to create scientific spreaders’ nests from schools. I do not know if the idea was welcomed and set up –at least, I was not summoned to o...

The social issue caused by the handmade mining.   By Amaya Camacho Patty del Pilar; Mendoza Mondragón Fiorella Paredes Arcelles Grissel; Sandoval Torres Carlos Alberto; Troncos Merino Karina; Vargas Jiménez Blanca Christhel (School of Communication Sciences, UNP)   General Framework Currently in Peru, we see the mining, as well as it’s brought positive consequences for the economy, it’s caused different problems in the mining workers, the population living around, and the environment, because in all those people it’s seen their health affected as this activity is risky, and having no support from the government in any emergency case.   About the social consequences, the miners are going through serious health problems because many teenage workers die or are hospitalized every year due to injuries acquired while working. So, the people react to those problems breaking out demonstrations and strikes which they manifest not only they mistreat the farmer commu...