“Thanks to the aguaje, I’ve been able to provide for my children.”
This is the first in a three-part series about CIFOR’s work on peatlands in Peru.
At a small table in a noisy, bustling market, Ana Ríos Ruiz ladles thick, yellow juice into a mug and hands it to a customer. Pocketing a few coins, she turns back to a plastic bowl filled with a yellow paste speckled with brown.