Climate Change Threatens Quechua and Their Crops in Peru’s Andes | Inter Press Service
Alterations in rainfall patterns and temperatures due to climate change
are cause for concern amongst Quechua Indian communities in the Peruvian
highlands. http://bit.ly/1ECTHJA
Some
of the “potato guardians” of the five Quechua communities helping to
safeguard native varieties in a 9,200-hectare “potato park” in the
Sacred Valley of the Incas, in the Peruvian highlands department of
Cuzco. Credit: Fabíola Ortiz/IPS
