Nataly Allasi Canales

🚨Estudiantes de Latinoamérica

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Yaku Raymi: The Quechua Ritual to Save a Glacier SANTA FE, Peru — What happens when a glacier dies? In the community of Santa Fe, in Peru, water is disappearing, animals are dying due to a lack of pasture and rainfall has become sporadic. The commun...

What happens when a glacier dies?
Campesinos have organized to save their Apu Ritipata glacier in Santa Fe, Ayacucho, Peru.

95% of the glaciers in the Andes have disappeared. The communities' responses inspire them to find solutions.
#mongabay #Andes #drought

Preserving heirloom potatoes with science – DW – 03/03/2025 The Andes' bitter potatoes: the humble key to the future of agriculture? Peruvian biologist Nataly Canales thinks so. But she focuses on ethics, not profit, and asks: Who owns knowledge about plants?

Mum, I'm TV-famous!

Stoked to share this DW report about my research, thoughts and Bitter Potatoes.

#potato #agrobiodiversity #Andes #IndigenousKnowledge #peruvian #climateResilience #Quechua #Aymara

Thanks for the kind words. It's a work in progress, so I'm happy if this opens up discussions among ourselves :)

Thanks for the kind words. It's a work in progress, so I'm happy if this opens up discussions among ourselves :)

Proud to be releasing my piece/essay that explores the aspects of my potato research that fascinate me so much. The essay focuses on my time working alongside Indigenous agricultural and botanical experts in the Andean regions of Bolivia and Peru.

Big thanks to @thecentriclab.com for their support

Rooted in Resistance - the Agrobiodiversity of Bitter Potatoes My intervention for the 2025 Annual Darwin Debate - How would Darwin do fieldwork today?

Last week I was invited for a talk at the Annual Darwin Debate organised by @ceevol.bsky.social The debate was on "How would Darwin do Fieldwork today?"
Below, I have summarised my intervention 😃

#DarwinDay at @nhm-london.bsky.social ended with a great simposium by @ceevol.bsky.social.

Thanks to the organisers @aidaandres.bsky.social and the speakers @hernanaburbano.bsky.social @allasicanales.bsky.social and @mauritiantales.bsky.social, so much food for thought!