{"id":6208,"date":"2022-12-19T12:21:43","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T11:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mission-21.org\/?p=6208"},"modified":"2023-05-17T17:33:06","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T15:33:06","slug":"extreme-drought-and-political-crisis-in-peru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mission-21.org\/en\/extreme-trockenheit-und-politische-krise-in-peru\/","title":{"rendered":"Extreme drought and political crisis in Peru"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shortly before Christmas, the people in the southern Andes of Peru find themselves in a doubly exceptional situation: First and foremost, they are threatened by a food crisis. No rain has fallen for months, the seedlings are drying out, and a harvest in February is not to be expected. In addition, the people are left to fend for themselves due to the politically unstable situation in the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the highlands of the southern Andes of Peru, Mission 21's partners are campaigning for Food Sovereignty <\/a>one. At the moment, this work is more important than ever - and perhaps more difficult than ever before. Because in the project area in the Puno region it has not rained for about ten months. The first raindrops fell last week, but in insufficient quantity and much too late.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The local people are facing a food crisis because of this drought.<\/strong> \"The seedlings we planted cannot grow,\" says Humberto Cahuina Mamani of the local organization APROCLAS. In the villages in the highlands, very few small farmers have irrigation systems. The fact that the rains have now failed for so long is threatening. The record drought is reminiscent of the crisis of the 1950s. Most families in the villages do not have enough money to buy food, especially if they cannot bring their harvest to market. Hundreds of animals such as alpacas and vicu\u00f1as have already died of thirst, others are so emaciated that small farmers cannot sell their livestock at a profit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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