Rural women in Peru key to adaptation of seeds to climate change

Inter Press Service: 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 experience, despite the contributions it could make to the design of effective policies for adaptation to climate change, which poses a growing threat to the women's livelihoods. Peru's campesinas or peasant women have played this role from time immemorial, handing down their knowledge by oral transmission....

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