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New research hones in on the fact that individuals, households, and groups within the agricultural sector of Peru often adapt in different and unequal ways to the challenges that result from the changing climate. This study promotes comprehensive solutions that do not further compound the marginality that rural Indigenous people have long faced.
The authors draw on the concept of intersectionality to examine inequalities in this region. Within the framework of intersectionality, elements of social inequality, such as gender, ethnicity, age, and class, are not separate and distinct, but interacting elements which compound each other.
In an interview, members of the research team told GlacierHub that they “used an intersectionality theoretical framework, understood here as the ways that different identities intersect within systems of power, to collect new perspectives from women, migrants, indigenous people, and older residents.” The research suggests that the inter