Yet, women like her are "on the frontline of the impact of climate change," Ruiz argued. Avanzar Rural has funded 1,031 small businesses in Peru in the last four years, to the benefit of 17,557 ...

In the mountains of northeast Peru, a group of women beekeepers have plucked millions of bees from the jaws of death and saved their own livelihoods with the help of UN climate funding. The women ...