From high in the Andean mountains to the tables of Lima, Emma Henderson traces the humble potato from it traditional roots to ...

Matthew McConaughey detailed leaving Hollywood for a 22-day stay in Peru under the name Mateo at the height of his fame after ...

Indigenous people of the Andes were the first to domesticate the potato, making the starch-rich crop a dietary staple for ...

A new study finds that Indigenous Andeans living in what is now Peru have extra copies of a gene called AMY1, which helps the ...

Indigenous people in the Andes domesticated the potato — a great source of starch, vitamins, minerals and fiber — 6,000 to 10 ...

A study found that natural selection favored those with a high number of starch-digesting genes following the domestication ...

By Lucinda Elliott and Marco Aquino LIMA, May 15 (Reuters) - Roberto Sanchez, a left-wing congressman whose plans to overhaul the mining sector have sparked investor concerns, will face conservative ...

Meet Peru’s potato guardians, fighting to protect the country’s beloved tubers against climate change - From high in the ...

Peruvian police on Monday captured one of the killers of four Indigenous Amazon land defenders who were murdered protecting their territories from illegal loggers, police sources said. Estrada, 61, ...

Deep within the forest in southeastern Peru lies one of the most biodiverse places in the world. The nearly 20 million acres ...