Peruvian agriculture researchers will receive the support of experts from the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) thanks to the Cooperative Research Project on Climate Change and Agriculture, which was signed today.

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is providing the financial assistance for affiliates researchers at the National Institute of Agrarian Innovation (INIA), Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation of Peru (MINAGRI), to work directly with experts from the ARS on issues related to climate change and its impacts on agriculture and ecosystems in Peru.
This cooperative effort aimed at developing research on the effects of climate change on Peruvian agriculture. Training will be provided by ARS’s scientists to INIA’s experts. In addition, ARS scientists will visit Peru to provide guidance for implementing global climate change research projects at various institutions in Peru. INIA’s researches will learn strategies and approaches to measure or determine the effect of climate parameters on yield, production, quality and physiology of crops such as potato and corn.

The project was signed by the Deputy Chief of Mission of the U.S. Embassy Lima, Lawrence J. Gumbiner and the Chief of the National Agricultural Research Institute (INIA), Roberto Santos Facundo. In the presentation of the project were also the leader of the Climate Change Research and Farming Systems, Vangimalla Reddy (ARS) and the Peruvian Congressman Daniel Abugattás.