
The fight to revive Europe’s shrinking rural areas
Nicolás de la Fuente, a 92-year-old walking his dog on the desolate streets of Molezuelas de la Carballeda, remembers the Spanish village’s heyday as a flourishing farming community. “We had everything,” he recalls. “There were five herds of 500 sheep each. There were two herds of 600 goats. There were cows, 200 or 300. And…