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Peru relies on family farming for national food security, yet limited access to irrigation greatly hinders agricultural productivity. This article explores how family farmers, community agents, institutional professionals, and local government authorities in the Cusco region collaborated to co-create water harvesting projects to ensure food security.

There is no such thing as "the woman". There are real women of flesh and blood...from diverse socioeconomic locations, some with fewer opportunities than others; women who struggle every day to survive and those of us who struggle every day to conquer equal opportunities, making alliances with others to build a better society.

The consequences of the pandemic can be seen at the end of 2021 with almost 14% of the Latin American population living in extreme poverty: ninety million people! As far as the middle classes are concerned, the pandemic has revealed their extreme vulnerability, due to low social security contributions and low levels of social security coverage.