2023-07-21 11:57:23
GREAT REPORT – While summer is already breaking heat records, Spain is facing a historic drought. What if climate change challenges the Spanish economic model? On the peninsula, water has become a precious resource and agriculture is under severe strain.
This article is from Figaro Magazine
Below Vejer de la Frontera, one of the most beautiful Andalusian white villages, El Rayo is the gourmet meeting place for all ranchers, the cowherds and farmers of the surrounding area thanks to its three-course menu for 10 euros. From starter to dessert, everything is simple, hearty, reassuring in this period of inflation. Callused hands resting on the table and eyes riveted on the small screen broadcasting the news continuously, young and old drink in the words of this shepherd who, to escape the drought in Extremadura, has undertaken a transhumance as unprecedented as it is impressive since last May 14.
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It will take José Manuel Sanchez forty days to transport his 1,700 sheep more than 600 kilometers north, from Puerto de Miravete, in the province of Cáceres, to Riaño in that of León. The challenge ? Herd survival. To see the hooves of these sheep hammering this earth as dry as dust, the faces are serious and, in the absence of water, it is the comments…
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