February 14, 2025
Prepping plots and applying soil amendments on on-farm research trials on five farms within the Colca River Valley. Left and center: prepping a plot in two farms in Yanque. Right: applying soil amendments in Madrigal. Photos credit: Lori Hoagland.
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February 7, 2025
Mrs. Sonia from Sibayo shows her organic production of broccoli, lettuce, chard and carrots. Thanks to the advice of her Agronomist son, she has been able to grow and properly manage clean vegetables for her own consumption. Photo credit: Gary Burniske.
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February 4, 2025
Team of the Nexus ‘Organic Farming Systems (OFS)’ Project delivering detailed soil test reports to farmers in Yanque (Colca Valley). Photos credit: Lori Hoagland
January 27, 2025
Members of the Nexus ‘Organic Farming Systems’ Project, Drs. Julia Bello-Bravo and Rosa Cossio, during two focus group exercises conducted in Madrigal with a group of ‘women’ and ‘senior’ farmers. Photos credit: Rosa Cossio and Julia Bello-Bravo.
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December 6, 2024
Nexus postdoctoral researcher Alejandra Toro explaining about keeping phenotypic data in the ‘record books’, and Wilfredo Cipira showing shearing techniques to participants in Sibayo. Photos credit: Gerardo Mamani and Luis Paulo Sousa.
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August 22, 2024
Nexus projects’ PIs and local authorities from Sibayo, Yanque and Madrigal during the 1st Advisory Board meeting. From left to right (standing): Mauricio Postigo, Daniel Leon-Salas, Daniel Ninataype, Jose Andia, Lori Hoagland, Jonathon Day, Carmen Franco, Luiz Brito, Pablo Mauro Condori, Jose Flores, and Dennis Macedo. From left to right (sitting): Yulissa Chalco, Ronald Mamani, Rosa Cossio, Zacarias Ocsa, and Demetrio Velasquez. Below, UNSA PIs presenting activities and expected outcomes of their respective projects: Dennis Macedo (Organic Farming Systems), Mauricio Postigo (Renewable Energy), Jose Flores (Camelids), and Carmen Franco (Regenerative Tourism). Photos credit: Carmen Franco and Rosa Cossio
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May 30, 2024
Project team collecting soil samples and interviewing farmers in Madrigal district (Colca River Valley). Upper pictures depict Don Pablo showing native potato varieties grow in the area: ‘choclo negro’, ‘bola’, and ‘ojo azul’. Photos credit: Ada Martinez and Rosa Cossio.
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March 25, 2024
Project team collecting soil samples in the CIBCI area (Thursday, March 14). Left-right: Co-directors of the Arequipa Nexus Institute and lead PIs of the Organic Farming Systems Project: MS. Dennis Macedo and Dr. Lori Hoagland, postdoc Ada Martinez, and PhD student Henrique Petry. Photo credit: Dr. Rosa Cossio
March 13, 2024
The National University of San Agustin (UNSA), in Arequipa, Peru, and Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN, begin the third phase of joint collaboration to develop research projects in organic agriculture, genetic improvement of South American camelids, renewable energy and regenerative tourism in the Colca Valley.
UNSA and Purdue begin impact projects to improve quality of life in the Colca Valley
March 13, 2024
Phase III Nexus researchers from Purdue and UNSA presenting an overview of their project’s activities during the “Arequipa Nexus Institute Phase III Kick-Off Workshop” held in Arequipa, Peru. Photos credit: UNSA’s Oficina Universitaria de Imagen Institucional.
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Lori Hoagland
Professor, Purdue University
Horticulture And Landscape Architecture
Nexus Institute Co-Director
E-mail: c4e-nexus@purdue.edu
Walter Daniel Leon-Salas
Associate Professor, Purdue University
Purdue Polytechnic Institute
Nexus Institute Co-Director
E-mail: c4e-nexus@purdue.edu
Dennis Macedo
Associate Professor, UNSA
Agronomy
Nexus Institute Co-Director
E-mail: dmacedova@unsa.edu.pe