Pandemic pushes Peru’s vital peasant farmers to the brink

Under a punishing Andean sun, Nazario Quispe digs his plow into the soil where he is growing dozens of different potato varieties – uncertain when he will be able to afford the seeds and supplies to sow them again. Farmers like Quispe are responsible for the food that lands on 70% of Peruvian dinner tables, […]

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