Peru

Peru (Spanish: Perú, Quechua: Piruw, Aymara: Piruw), officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean.
=== Places, projects and networks ===
*Association for Nature and Sustainable Development
*Practical Action in Peru
=== Global News ===
June 2010
	Marcamasi [es] reports that in Peru more than 8,000 people managed to plant 27,166 trees in 5 minutes and 20 seconds, achieving a new Guinness record, 6 June 2010. This also marks the beginning of a national campaign called “Toward 180 million trees” (”Rumbo a los 180 millones de árboles”) with the theme “Let's change our attitude, let's sow a plant” (“Cambiemos de actitud, sembremos una planta”). Global Voices Online, Written by Silvia Viñas, 6 June 2010 topic
April 2008
*IIED 3 year project to gather the views of small-scale farmers, indigenous people, nomadic pastoralists, rural communities, food workers and other citizens in Mali, India, Iran and the Andean region of Latin America (Bolivia and Peru), April 14 International Institute for Environment and Development, April 14 topic
=== Topic links ===
Food
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