In Ecuador, Maria Elvira Azipuela Zimbaña, 45, and one of her sons explain how they are raising rabbits, which provide manure for the natural fungicide ‘BIOL.’ 

In ‘El Valle del Tambo’ valley in Papallacta, Ecuador, many farmers face food insecurity as their traditional agriculture knowledge fails due to unpredictable and more intense wind, frost and cold. 

CARE is helping by training women farmers in how to protect their crops from insects and frost. A group of women aged 19 to 70 — many who are mothers who did not previously have vegetable gardens — now work in the garden and are adapting to the impacts of climate  change.

Photo Credits: 2011 Silvia Vallejo/CARE