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PERU: Time to Adapt to Climate Change Impact on Women’s Lives
This year’s unusually rainy season in Peru is having a negative effect on the wellbeing and health of women in rural areas who are forced, for example, to spend three times as much time walking to...
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PERU: Time to Adapt to Climate Change Impact on Women’s Lives
This year’s unusually rainy season in Peru is having a negative effect on the wellbeing and health of women in rural areas who are forced, for example, to spend three times as much time walking to...
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Rural Women in Peru Key to Adaptation of Seeds to Climate Change
For ages, rural women in the Peruvian highlands have been selecting and storing seeds, ensuring their preservation. But the authorities have failed to tap into this storehouse of knowledge and...
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Rural Women in Peru Cope “Where Life Is Very Sad”
When the crops in her rural highlands community in southern Peru were covered with a thick layer of ice one night, Felícitas Quispe, 43, organised her neighbours to make an effort to keep people from...
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CLIMATE CHANGE-PERU: Rural Women Share Their Trials and Wisdom
“This year the freeze killed my crops, our small livestock died, and now I can’t even sleep because I’m worried sick thinking about how to put food on my family’s table, since I’m a widow,” said...
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Rights of Rural Women Have Seen Uneven Progress in Latin America
Bonificia Huamán (2nd- L), carries out a communal task with other women in Llullucha, a Quechua community located 3,553 meters above sea level, where 80 families practice subsistence agriculture,...
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Women Activists are Targets of Gender-Biased Violence
Fanny Kaekat, indigenous leader of the Shuar Arutam people, has spent her life defending the territories of indigenous communities in southeastern Ecuador from the threat of mining. She poses at the...
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Pardon of Former Peruvian President Fujimori Deals Blow to Fight Against...
Peru ended 2017 with 116 victims of femicide and 223 women who survived this gender-based crime. Credit: Courtesy of Julia VicuñaBy Mariela JaraLIMA, Jan 15 2018 (IPS)The political crisis triggered in...
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Biodiversity and Food Security: the Dual Focus of the World Potato Congress
Two farmers pick potatoes in Pampas, 3,276 meters above sea level, in the Andean region of Huancavelica, in central Peru, during a visit by specialists who accompanied IPS to the area that is home to...
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For the Rural Poor of Peru, the Social Agenda is Far Away
The central square of Huaro, with a colonial church that is a national monument, in the middle of the typical Andes highlands landscape. This Peruvian rural municipality of 4,500 people feels alone in...
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Women Farmers in Peru Bring Healthy Meals to Local Schools
Under the hot sun of the Pacific Ocean coast, in the department of Piura, 25 women farmers undergoing training in the Agroecological School return from a technical assistance activity in the province...
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Community Work Among Women Improves Lives in Peru’s Andes Highlands
In the community of Paropucjio, several women stand next to the solar greenhouse they have just built together on the plot of land belonging to one of them, in the district of Cusipata, more than 3,300...
View ArticleEquality and Territory: the Common Struggle of Indigenous Women in the Andes
The post Equality and Territory: the Common Struggle of Indigenous Women in the Andes appeared first on Inter Press Service.Excerpt:This article is published ahead of the International Day of...
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Latin American Rural Women Call for Recognition and Policies
Yolanda Flores, an Aymara indigenous woman, speaks to other women engaged in small-scale agriculture, gathered in her village square in the highlands of Peru's southern Andes. She is convinced that...
View ArticleYouth in Latin America Learn About Paths to Clean Energy
Young Peruvians plan to take advantage of the knowledge acquired in Brazil’s semi-arid Northeast to bring water to segments of the population who suffer from shortages, after sharing experiences in...
View ArticleThermal Houses Keep People Warm in Peru’s Highlands
Thirty families from a rural community more than 4,300 meters above sea level will have warm houses that will protect them from the freezing temperatures that each year cause deaths and diseases among...
View ArticleShedding Light on Forced Child Pregnancy and Motherhood in Latin America
Research and campaigns by women’s rights advocates are beginning to focus on the problem of Latin American girls under the age of 14 who are forced to bear the children of their rapists, with the...
View ArticleFighting Machismo in Latin America: The Formula to Combat Femicides
Peru began the year with 11 femicides in January, despite progress made in laws and statutes and mass demonstrations against gender-based violence. This situation is also seen in other Latin American...
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Decent Work Still a Distant Dream for Many Latin American Women
Indigenous women sell handicrafts at a street market in the tourist city of Antigua, Guatemala. Due to the continuing lack of decent employment for women in the region, many of them become street...
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Coronavirus Hasn´t Slowed Down Ecological Women Farmers in Peru’s Andes...
Quechua indigenous farmers from the town of Huasao, in the Andes highlands of Peru, cut insect repellent plants in front of Juana Gallegos' house, while others prepare the biol mixture, a liquid...
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