Noralba Galvis usually returns home to her village in the Colombian jungle with fresh supplies of rice, meat, salt and other foods stuffed into bags. But today, as the 40-year-old steps onboard a boat for the two-hour journey home along the Putumayo River, she carries just a single cardboard box.
“My mother gave me these chicks,” she said. “Chickens are great in times of emergency like these, when there is nothing else left to eat.”
Like most farmers in Putumayo,
