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7 de dic. de 2022 · 01:41. Peru’s climate allows for year-round production. Giving it an edge that should soon see it overtake the planet’s top producer, the US. In a short time, Mexico has become the No 2 global producer of raspberries, behind Russia. Mexico already produces 10% of the world’s supply of strawberries.
BRECA is a diversified business conglomerate with more than 130 years of history and presence in Peru, Chile, Ecuador and Brazil. It has a diversified portfolio of operating companies in the banking, insurance, healthcare, real estate, hospitality, mining, fishing and cement sectors. It has an innovation hub called BREIN and a social impact ...
8 de jun. de 2016 · With the promise of a bright future for innovation in Latin America, let's take a look at some of the region's greatest past inventions: 1. The colour TV. Born in Guadalajara Mexico, Guillermo Gonzalez Camarena was an electrical engineer credited with the invention of a colour-wheel type of television. His was the first colour TV patented in ...
7 de mar. de 2024 · From forest schools to greywater recycling – these start-ups are powering a green revolution across Latin America. Mar 7, 2024. Of the 50 countries most affected by the climate crisis worldwide, 13 are located in Latin America and the Caribbean. Image: Unsplash/Roberto Huczek.
On December 13, 1941, in Huaraz, Peru, a natural dam that had held back Lake Palcacocha burst, killing 2,000 people. This type of catastrophic event is known as a “glacial lake outburst flood”. Heavy rainfall and rock, snow or ice avalanches can raise water levels in moraine-dammed glacial lakes, causing it to collapse or overflow.
Uyunkar Domingo Peas Nampichkai is President of the governing board for the Amazon Sacred Headwaters Alliance, a coalition of 30 Indigenous nations in Ecuador and Peru. It aims to protect 35 million hectares of tropical rainforests by establishing a protected region that is off-limits to industrial-scale resource extraction under Indigenous peoples’ stewardship. It advocates a new economic ...
28 de abr. de 2023 · The CPTPP launched in 2018 with Japan, Malaysia, Vietnam, Australia, Singapore, Brunei Darussalam, New Zealand, Canada, Mexico, Peru and Chile as members. The UK joined them in 2023 as part of a move to strengthen trading links after Brexit, and together the member nations account for 15% of global GDP.
The World Economic Forum publishes a comprehensive series of reports which examine in detail the broad range of global issues it seeks to address with stakeholders as part of its mission of improving the state of the world. Besides reports on its key events and standalone publications such as the Global Competitiveness Report, the Global Risks Report and the Global Gender Gap Report, the Forum ...
10 de jun. de 2016 · The first Latin American winner of the prize, she wrote under the pen name Gabriela Mistral, a tribute to two of her favourite poets, Gabriele D’Annunzio and Frederic Mistral (who won the Nobel Prize in 1904). Miguel Angel Asturias, Guatemala (1967) A poet, novelist and diplomat, Asturias was awarded the Soviet Union’s Lenin Peace Prize in ...
19 de ene. de 2024 · The 54th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum will provide a crucial space to focus on the fundamental principles driving trust, including transparency, consistency and accountability. This Annual Meeting will welcome over 100 governments, all major international organizations, 1000 Forum’s Partners, as well as civil society leaders ...
