Peru Agriculture Minister Ismael Benavides said Wednesday he will sign a legislative decree to establish an agrarian compensation program to get in line with U.S.-Peru FTA requirements.
The compensation program, Benavides told state news agency Andina, is to be funded by the Public Treasury and the Inter-American Development Bank. It will administer $700 million over the […]

A study by Peru’s Defensoría del Pueblo – the national ombudsman organization – has found 66 percent of timber companies in Peru are exporting lumber illegally.