Despite the growth, poverty has fallen only slowly in the Andean region, where poverty reaches 70 percent of the population, and many Andean Indigenous remain trapped in subsistence farming on small plots producing one-third of the country's agricultural GDP.
Poverty has fallen only slowly in the Andean region. This was despite the growth. Poverty reaches 70 percent of the population. Many Andean Indigenous remain trapped in subsistence farming on small plots. This is despite the growth. These small plots are producing one-third of the country's agricultural GDP.