Purdue’s partnership with Peruvian universities will build infrastructure on the ground allowing for research on the environmental challenges faced by the Junin and Arequipa regions. The biggest institutional partnership to date is the Arequipa Nexus Institute, founded in 2018 in collaboration with Universidad Nacional de San Agustín (UNSA). The institute for food, water, energy and environment, creates an interdisciplinary space for researchers and partners to work with local communities and eco-systems. Thus it will cultivate the “development of adaptive, profitable, and sustainable food-energy-water systems in the Arequipa region of Peru,” states a press release from the American university.
November 4, 2019