Worldfocus » farming http://worldfocus.org International News, Videos and Blogs Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:04:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 en Climate forces Nepal’s farmers to abandon rice for bananas http://worldfocus.org/blog/2009/08/11/climate-forces-nepals-farmers-to-abandon-rice-for-bananas/6748/ http://worldfocus.org/blog/2009/08/11/climate-forces-nepals-farmers-to-abandon-rice-for-bananas/6748/#comments Tue, 11 Aug 2009 20:31:52 +0000 Worldfocus http://worldfocus.org/?p=6748 On Monday, the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called climate change “simply the greatest collective challenge we face as a human family.”

Already, of course, the consequences are being felt and seen. Rising temperatures from global warming are forcing changes in how people live and work.

In Nepal, climate change has altered the lives of those who depend on land to get by, as Worldfocus partner IRIN reports.

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Bo Lim, the Special Climate Change Adviser at the United Nations Development Program, joins Martin Savidge to discuss problems resulting from climate change.

(View full post to see video) Climate change is forcing farmers in Nepal and the world over to consider growing crops they’ve never grown before. Bo Lim of the United Nations Development Program discusses problems resulting from climate change. http://worldfocus.org/files/2009/08/th_nepal_un.jpg http://worldfocus.org/files/2009/08/th_nepal_un.jpg ]]> http://worldfocus.org/blog/2009/08/11/climate-forces-nepals-farmers-to-abandon-rice-for-bananas/6748/feed/ Bolivian land reform comes under fire from landowners http://worldfocus.org/blog/2009/05/12/bolivian-land-reform-comes-under-fire-from-landowners/5357/ http://worldfocus.org/blog/2009/05/12/bolivian-land-reform-comes-under-fire-from-landowners/5357/#comments Tue, 12 May 2009 18:43:13 +0000 Worldfocus http://worldfocus.org/?p=5357 The Bolivian government is implementing new land reform policy designed to help the poor, under which the government can seize and redistribute land to indigenous farmers. 

It’s a proposal that has left many landowners unhappy. Worldfocus’ Ivette Feliciano, Bryan Myers and Ara Ayer report from Santa Cruz, where many of Bolivia’s largest landholders — ranchers, cattlemen and industrial farmers — live. 

For more Worldfocus coverage of Bolivia, visit our extended coverage page: On the Ground in Bolivia.

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