FIGHTING CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE HIGH ANDES

Rural indigenous communities in Peru’s Andean highlands have been hit hard by climate change, which is impacting traditional crops like potato, maize and quinoa. The MDG-F supported a communications campaign, including radio broadcasts in the local Quechua language, to motivate farmers to adopt measures such as water harvesting, reforestation with native species, protection of biodiversity and prevention of forest fires and overgrazing.