Mexico: Women farmers suffer drought and excess rain in Hidalgo

Claudia Hernández Ángeles is a traditional cook and lives in Santiago de Anaya. Every day he gets up before the sun rises to have breakfast with a coffee and artisan bread, and then go out to the field to harvest beans and corn. Since last week, it has only rained two days, "God send us the water," he prays as he weeds his land, which he sows and harvests once a year, and which, since last year, has remained dry. "If it rains we harvest because the lack of rain affects us a lot because, how are we going to sow if there is no water. We do not have an irrigation system and the land needs a lot of water, but this is the way of the peasant, if God gives us water, we can sow and there is harvest. "It is sown every year, it is good that we could sow two or three times a year; and if it starts to rain, we will sow in the coming months," he explains with a certain tone of anguish. Earlier this month, agricultural and peasant organizations expressed their concern about the drought facing ...