94 Days before the climate talks in Copenhagen.
Photo by Gilvan Barreto. Oxfam International. Ancash, Peru.
The story of how climate change affects people around the world isn't only one of hardship, but also of perseverance and adaptation. Patchwork farmland on the steep slopes of the Peruvian Andes. Nevado Huascaran - the highest mountain in Peru - is in the background. Farmers here are experiencing warmer temperatures and decreasing rainfall, and are introducing new drip irrigation techniques to make better use of their diminishing water supplies. In this picture, bottles used for drip irrigation hang down from a pole.
"I am grateful for the support of the new irrigation system. I have planted alfalfa on my dry seccano land, which feeds my guinea pigs. And I feel proud about the reservoir. I am grateful for these practical solutions - we also have an artificial reservoir which uses a geo-membrane plastic sheet to store the water"
- Pascual Cochachi, 50, 4 children, Farmer, Ancash.
Pascual and other farmers in this region are experiencing diminishing water supplies, due to warmer temperatures and decreasing rainfall. He is introducing new drip irrigation techniques using bottles and hoses, and is storing water in reservoirs. Before he introduced the new techniques, he would flood his land when the rain came, wasting water and washing the nutrients away.
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