Lamay, Peru, April 14 (IPS) -The Andes Women’s Farmers’ Group, which comes in the wrong time with rain, hail and frost, blooms, and causes damage to crops, and 3,000 meters above sea level, and the Andes of 3,000 meters above sea level has been changed to agricultural production practices to secure agricultural production. The weather, “POQUES Community of Peru (CUSCO), a Quekua farmer who is about an hour by car from CUSCO, a former Empire of Peru, told the IPS.
POQUES is one of the 13 agricultural communities in Lamay’s local governments and is located about 3,000 meters above sea level in Calca, southeastern Cusco. Like the many rural Andes plateau in Peru, this region is faced with continuous poverty and national government neglect. The disadvantages of the climate crisis deteriorate.
According to Peru’s 2021 measurement, greenhouse gas emissions account for less than 1 % of the world’s total, but are very vulnerable to climate change. Ministry of Environment.
The ministry is UN Development Program (UNDP) reported that about 5.5 million Peruvians were exposed to floods and 2.6 million in droughts.
Among the most influenced people, family farmers have family farmers because they rely on natural resources, especially women, especially women, and gender inequalities that limit their response.
“Previously, potatoes, corn and Quinnoaman made a living every day. Now we did not even know how to eat before. We have better skills to face the climate crisis through the techniques we have learned.
She is one of the 80 female farmers who participate in the training project led by non -government. Flora Tristán Peruvian Women’s CenterIn the face of climate change, we aimed to develop agricultural technologies to increase participation in community organizations and increase decisions.
“We’ve learned that the first step can be breathe by loosening the soil by spraying the first step up to 60 centimeters depths, or it is the first good agricultural ecological practice we apply in the greenhouse.
Agricultural ecology of daily life
Mamani, a QueChua speaker born in Poques 59 years ago, devoted her life to agriculture and family work and had no chance to attend school. Now she is a student of agricultural ecological schools run by Flora Tristán Center Basque Development Cooperation Agency and Mugen gainetik.
“For a while, the rain, hail, and frost have been damaged in the wrong time. Last year, the wind was so strong that it made the corn field flattened, and we couldn’t harvest anything, and when she translated her words with her hand, she raised her hand with her hands with her hands when she translated her words with Spanish for IPS.
Peru’s national meteorological and water literature service (Senamhi) reported this 2024 was the hottest year In the last 60 years. As a result, drought and heavy rain were included, and it affected regions such as family agriculture, resulting in crops and food anxiety.
The 80 trained female farmers come from four earths or local governments, including San Salvador, Koya, Kalka and Lamay. Each is 100 square meters of greenhouse, a drip irrigation system, and was trained for sustainable purposes.
“We do not waste water. I give water because I have to walk the way from my house to my house early in the morning early in the morning before the sun becomes too strong,” Mamani said.
She also grows squash.CUCURBITA PEPO), Sugar beet, chard (Beta Vulgaris), bean (Phaseolus Vulgaris) And other vegetables, now it is a necessity of her home -style.
The growing surplus has water with other families in the current community, but starting in May, she will sell her income in a nearby market.
She learned how to make natural fertilizers through training.
“I store fruit peel, potato skin, egg peel and all kitchen scraps and stoves, animal bones, chickens, sheep, guinea pig’s ashes. We make fertilizers that provide nutrition to the soil to produce healthy, strong and delicious plants.”
She delivers this knowledge to her family, her husband, daughter, son and each family. This epidemiology is duplicated by other women in agricultural ecological schools to spread this climate -based agricultural method.
“Mom’s greenhouses have a special climate. We can grow a lot of vegetables and eat better. Crops are protected from the weather extremes, and we can continue to practice agricultural ecology, take care of the environment, and continue water for future generations.
Her husband works at Cusco City and helps to return to the weekend and apply.
“As the mother said, we are cautious as the plant says.” Protecting nature is our small way that climate change prevents us from destroying us. “CRUZ said.
Lead the claim
Elena Villanueva, a project leader, emphasized the role of Andes rural women in the climate crisis. “They are not responsible for this situation that threatens food, water resources security and human health, but they are not hesitant,” he said to CUSCO’s IPS.
She emphasized agricultural ecology with a sustainable production model that helps to restore the ecosystem.
“This is an alternative to industry, extraction, and single cultural -based agriculture that worsens global warming and harms rural women and family welfare.”
She warned, “We warned in an important moment in which developed countries in charge of climate change track their promise to reduce emissions, ignoring the results of the vulnerable population.”
She urged the national policy to prioritize family agriculture, which supplies almost 70%of Peruvian food. “Our authorities have to turn their interest in the countryside, encourage agricultural ecology, and get close to gender gaps,” she demanded.
In rural areas, women have a lot of work that are less accessible to the earth, water, seeds and other resources and interfere with leadership and political participation.
Lack of support
Peru is recognized 55 AboriginalFour of the four AMAZONs, including 51 Amazon, and the largest group, QUECHUA, have about 5 million members nationwide, including immigrants in cities in rural areas.
About 14 %of Peruvians use Keua as a native language. Peru’s 2017 National Census was the first census, including national self -identification.
Andean Rural Women is mostly Keua and inherited ancestors’ agricultural knowledge. But migration and changing community mechanics struggled to adapt to climate challenge.
Traditionally, the signs of nature are agriculture, but this is no longer enough irregular weather and non -patterns. Women now face confusion and causes constant worries as family farming maintains family.
GLICERIO Delgado, the market of Lamay, expressed his dedication to rural development and climate resilience, but mourned the lack of national support.
“There are many things to build a blistering system for the expanded greenhouse and women’s family agriculture.
On the other hand, in four Cusco local governments, Anacleta Mamani and her 79 colleagues will continue to work to maintain their homes with agricultural ecological practices to strengthen their elasticity to climate extremes.
This feature is published with the support of Open Society Foundations.
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