Christina Chamide

"I have just returned from a field trip to Colombia, in the framework of a project on the nexus of water-biodiversity-climate change. We visited remote communities in La Guajira and Sucre, collecting water samples and analyzing land-use changes and their relation to water usage. I also had the opportunity to visit the Universidad del Externado in Bogotá, the Von Humboldt Institute, and the IMEA and meet some FAO representatives. It was an enriching trip. Thanks to Andrés Palacio for inviting me to this fantastic interdisciplinary project. Water is life, and when visiting these remote communities in the tropical dry forest, one becomes truly aware of the difference that access to drinkable water makes in everybody´s life, how related it is to biodiversity, and how climate change is threatening both."

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