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The community is in a continuous struggle against the permanent water shortage, one of the most devastating impacts of the climate crisis for those whose livelihoods depend on subsistence agriculture.
CUZCO, Peru, Dec 18 (IPS) - Before, when it didn't rain in the summertime, we children used to pray to God to send us water from the heavens, and the rain would come. But now it's different; the climate has changed and no prayers work—Juan Hilario Quispe, president of the small farming community of Muñapata "The rich world has caused the climate change that is drying up our water sources, and here we are doing everything we can to recover them because otherwise we will die," said Juan Hilario Quispe, president of the small farming community of Muñapata, just over 50 kilom...
These days Lima celebrates its burka-like tapada limeña, once an incredibly popular style of female clothing worn as a symbol of resistance for over 300 years.
Putting this knowledge into practice ensures their daily food in a context of constant threats to agricultural activity due to climate change
Paulina Locumbe, a 42-year-old peasant farmer who lives in the Andes highlands of southern Peru, learned as a child to harvest and dry crops, one of the ancestral practices with which she combat