Perspectives and actions of peasants from Anta-Cusco regarding climate change
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.15381/antropologia.v0i7.19946Keywords:
Climate change, Pampa de Anta-Cusco, farmers’ adaptative strategies to climate change, “Climate Audience”, NGOAbstract
The main question of this essay is whether the global climate changes of the last decades affect dramatically the Andes in ways that farmers from the southern highland can’t confront this situation by using their usual agricultural methods developed since previous millennia, or currently there are such dramatic changes that farmers can’t produce. Particularly in Cusco, NGOs are the institutions which defend the idea that there is a climate change produced by humans, so they encourage farmers to take actions in order to stabilize their ways of production. However, there is no good knowledge about what farmers think about it. Because of that, this essay tries to understand if farmers really perceive a dramatic change in water conditions and temperature that they can’t confront with their usual methods. We’ll know about the climate change in farmers’ everyday life, the way they perceive this topic and NGOs’ ideas about it. The fieldwork took place in the district of Izcuchaca, province Anta in Cusco.
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