Cacti and credit throw Brazil’s drought-parched farmers a lifeline
December 31, 2018
By Laurie Goering Thomson Reuters Foundation – Farming in the Jacuipe Basin of Brazil’s parched northeast has never been easy. But rising temperatures and a halving of rainfall over the decades mean it now rarely pays. “Everybody is saying the climate is changing (and) it’s getting more difficult to produce,” said Daniele Cesano, a renewable […]