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Climate change threatens staple potato crop high Andes
2015-01-20 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RTCC: A silent threat has emerged on the last twenty years in the Sacred Valley of the Incas, 3,000 meters high above the sea level on the Andean plateau. The rise of temperature in the remote part of the country has endangered the survival of over 2,000 Quechua indigenous families who have been traditionally growing potatoes for centuries. Abrupt climate variation and shortage of rainfall patterns over the last three decades are the core of this change. In December 2014, Peru hosted the UN climate...
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