The Bolivian government is on a new drive to encourage farmers to switch from growing the plant used to make cocaine to other crops. Duration: 01:54.
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Kris Marshall travelled with Christian Aid to Bolivia to see how sheep farming is helping some of the poorest people work themselves out of poverty.
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USAID Bolivia has worked with producers in organic production experiences like onions, with the use of bio-fertilizers, investigating and supporting organic production in general, to increase the earnings of low-income families living in the Bolivian valleys and altiplano by facilitating access to technologies and markets. For more information visit us at bolivia.usaid.gov
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www.thepoliticsandthepeople.com In trying to reconcile ancient heritage and international regulations, Bolivian cocaleros (coca growers), with the guidance of President Evo Morales, are taking novel approaches to coca growing and distribution. The Politics And The People The State of Coca and Cocaine, a documentary by Michael Wilde and Valerie Schenkman, is divided into four parts: an overview of the past history of coca regulation told from a cocalero's perspective; rationalization, or self-regulated of coca farming; alternative development, international participation in introducing crops to substitute coca growers' income; and industrialization, the Bolivian government's attempt to introduce coca to an international market. Issues regarding human rights and self-regulation pervade The Politics and the People's look at drug control and tradition within an impoverished society.
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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. Its a proposal that has left many landowners unhappy. Worldfocus Ivette Feliciano, Bryan Myers and Ara Ayer report from Santa Cruz, where many of Bolivias largest landholders — ranchers, cattlemen and industrial farmers — live. Worldfocus video podcast: feeds2.feedburner.com worldfocus.org
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This World Water Day, 22 March 2012, we look at Bolivia's glaciers, which are melting at an alarming rate. Farming communities on the slopes beneath the Illimani glacier in La Paz have land to farm, but not enough water to grow the crops they need to feed and sustain their families. Organisations like Christian Aid partner Agua Sustentable are measuring impacts and piloting schemes like reservoirs, to maximise water usage in these communities. Climate change is a global issue. We all need to take action. Read more: www.christianaid.org.uk Climate campaign: www.christianaid.org.uk Christian Aid in Bolivia: www.christianaid.org.uk
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Ever since he won the Bolivian presidency in 2005, Evo Morales has been a thorn in America's side. He once said, "The worst enemy of humanity is US capitalism." Originally a coca farmer himself, he has tried to block US intervention in eradicating coca farming in his country. In 2006, he partially nationalized Bolivia's oil and gas industry. Last month both countries recalled their ambassadors and tensions remain high between La Paz and Washington.
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Ever since he won the Bolivian presidency in 2005, Evo Morales has been a thorn in America's side. He once said, "The worst enemy of humanity is US capitalism." Originally a coca farmer himself, he has tried to block US intervention in eradicating coca farming in his country. In 2006, he partially nationalized Bolivia's oil and gas industry. Last month both countries recalled their ambassadors -- and tensions remain high between La Paz and Washington.
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For communities living in the heart of the Bolivian Amazon, the devastating effects of a changing climate have inspired them to work more closely than ever before. Using an ancient farming system last used in the area 3000 years ago, they are protecting their crops from worsening floods in the rainy season, as well as more severe droughts in the dry season. But to make a global difference we need world leaders to agree a climate fund to support communities across the world to avoid the worst effects of climate change. Take action at: www.oxfam.org Find out more about the Bolivian Camellones: oxf.am
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Tallking about a lost peoples from the plains of Bolivia who have left an incredible volume of earthworks and a bit of pottery, all thats left of a civilization of possibly a million people. I have dedicated the second spiral center to them and their permaculture legacy here is an inspiring bbc documentary on this civilization and the terra preta too video.google.com
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On the way of La Paz to the Titicacasee are the ruins of Tiwanaku. But despite spectacular finds the archaeologists are still dependent on assumptions, remain these 3000 years old culture still in the dark. Estimations assume that that in Tiwanaku approx. 50-Tausend humans lived, in the whole region approx. 500-Tausend - an enormous number. But when this realm developed, how was it organized, when and why it went down? - many questions arise, the archaeologists try to answer. They go partial unusual ways. With field experiments in Indio villages was eg tried to determine the agricultural methods Tiwanakus. Had preceded excavations and aerial photos in the region around the Titicacasee, which referred to a highly developed water cult. Already after few harvests one knows today that only the highly developed agriculture Tiwanakus formed the basis for the propagation of the later large and cultures, also those the Inkas. Sufficient quantities of food could be manufactured and stored without problems. This concerned above all the potato, basic food of the Indios. Today one knows that compared with the normal harvests up to twenty-way quantities can be harvested according to the Tiwanaku method - for the Bolivian agriculture this of enormous importance will be. Archaeologist teams instruct already in several villages around the Titicacasee the Indio farmers in the 3000 years old techniques. In September 1991 a American-Bolivian team on behalf of the Getty donation under the ...
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According to a new study by climatologists, Bolivia will be overwhelmed by a catastrophic drought within fifty years. They say Lake Titicaca which sustains the capital La Paz, is drying up at an alarming pace putting millions of lives at risk. Bolivia's plight will be at at the forefront of discussions at next week's climate change conference in Cancun, Mexico. For thousands of year, the waters of lake Titicaca, South America's largest lake, have sustained and nurtured millions of people. Today, however, the water is running out. Scientists say climate change has come to the lake with a particular severity. The latest study, conducted by a team led by the Florida Institute of Technology's Mark Bush, paints a bleak picture. [Mark Bush, Climatologist, Florida Institute of Technology]: "When this lake basically goes away suddenly the area there becomes a desert. And so this could happen, we think, within the next 50 years." The team investigated a 370000-year record of climate and vegetation change in Andean ecosystems. The study began in 2001 when scientists drilled into the deepest parts of the lake to retrieve fossilized pollen trapped in the sediments. Bush found that during two of the last three interglacial periods, Lake Titicaca shrank by as much as 85 percent. Adjacent grasslands were replaced by desert. The results of the study point to similar scenario. Farmer Luis Quispe Mamani say it has already started. His family has been farming the land on the shores of Lake ...
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Learn more: pulitzercenter.org The coca plant, used in indigenous cultural rituals and traditional medicines, is also the main ingredient for cocaine. Bolivia is the third largest producer of coca and cocaine after Peru and Colombia. Despite pressure to cut back on coca farming, many Bolivians see few alternatives. Evo Morales' controversial "Coca Yes, Cocaine No" program focuses on the industrialization of coca for products like tea, medicine and toothpaste, much of it with financial help from Morales' regional ally, Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez. According to Bolivia's Coca Industrialization Directorate, there are an estimated 50000 coca growers in Los Yungas, who already support the effort to market coca legally. This project is part of Pulitzer Center-sponsored project "Coca Si, Cocaina No: Evo Morales' Coca Policy in Los Yungas, Bolivia" (bit.ly Featured on Foreign Exchange with Daljit Dhaliwal the week of September 19, 2008. Credits: Bolivia's Coca Culture Directed by Gabrielle Weiss Produced by Ruxandra Guidi, Bear Guerra and Gabrielle Weiss In association with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
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South East of Bolivia is the location of the biggest Salt Flat in the world, "Uyuni Salt Flat. Music: Cliff Martinez - I that everybody wants (from the motion picture Solaris) Credits: Ayrton Orio and Sharon Kendelker In a world where the time flies, where people are required to work on a fast speed and stress is more and more common in humans, the choice of where to go gives now priority to places that offered silence and tranquility. In Bolivia, near the border with Chile, there is a small community where the main economic activities apart from llama-herding and quinua-farming, is mining salt. Uyuni Salt Lake is a peculiar place. About 40000 years ago, this arid area used to be part of a lake that covered a large swath of the Andes. Nowadays it is The World's Biggest Salt Desert. South East of Bolivia is the location of the biggest Salt Flat in the world, "Uyuni Salt Flat". The crust of salt covers a surface of 10.582 Km2. of extension, at an altittude of 3.653 meters above sea level, like a static sea touched by by the southern winds. Like any other desert, the weather conditions in Uyuni Bolivia are extreme, from freezing night temperatures to fierce desert sun. In the Salar itself, you can find several hotels which have been made from salt bricks, including beds, chairs and cocktail bars. All is made from salt! Furthermore, the Salar de Uyuni has impressive views. A flat whiteness, fringed by the peaks of mountains on the horizon beneath a bright blue sky can be ...
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10 October 2001 Sandra Jordan delves into Bolivia -- a country torn apart by the demands of the West for the coca plant.
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sustainablebolivia.org, energetica.org.bo Energetica, the Bolivian renewable energy non-profit organization, has installed solar powered computing centers in 59 rural communities in Bolivia. Here in Quebrada Onda, a farming community on the side of a canyon, the children are again attending classes because they are excited to use the computers.
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Abrahim Mamani works as a dairy farmer in the mountainous Altiplano of Bolivia. He rotates his 18 milking cows to produce an average of 25 litres a day, earning him about $2. For more info, please go to www.togethertv.org
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Taking the example of Carmen del Emero community, this video shows how some villages in the Bolivian Amazon are working on wild cacao production because they see in this activity an economic opportunity that can compete with other unsustainable alternatives such as farming and cattle. This work is getting the best results and at the same time with this practice they help to protect the forest. The video also explains the steps that the farmer has to follow to obtain a high quality product and the improvements that have been introduced in these processes.
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The second of a series of 4 video blogs, Karen Luyckx, CAFOD's representative in Bolivia talks from Cochabamba's Climate Change tribunal, where indigenous leaders gathered in October to hold climate criminals to account...
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