Tucupi, a spicy sauce to stop Amazon deforestation
URL copied to clipboard Stopping the deforestation that is advancing over the La Asunción reservation, in the department of Guaviare, Colombia, is becoming increasingly urgent. Nancy del Pilar Padua Palacios, an Indigenous Tucano, has a solution: "It is the planting of ají (chilli), a product of our culture," says the 26-year-old leader, while she records yellow, green and red chilli peppers with her phone. These will later be dried to make tucupí, an Amazonian hot sauce that is produced in Guaviare. The land, where Nancy and 146 other people from the Wanano, Tucano, Desano, Cubeo, Pae...
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