The traditional lifestyle of nomadic shepherds in Kyrgyzstan is threatened by climate change. Herders are hoping that through reviving ancient practices, their grassland will survive to support their way of life. UNIA Programme # 1287 Transcript (pdf): www.un.org
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The mountainous area around Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan is one of the centres of origin for traditional fruit tree varieties. Some of the trees are more than 500 years old but today are threatened by unsustainable farming practices, such as fuel gathering, land clearance, and the use of pesticides, while knowledge of traditional varieties is being lost. Smallholder farmers, with support from Bioversity International and partners, have now put these varieties at the heart of their communities. Meet some of the people who have become fruit tree custodians in this short video. Read 'Roots of People' to find out more about this project: www.bioversityinternational.org 'Fruit trees and their custodians' is one of the farmers stories in our series to mark Rio+20 - 'A fork in the Road - meeting farmers on the road to Rio'. Find out more and follow our campaign blog here : www.bioversityinternational.org
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Farmers in the Kyrgyz Republic say that the economic crisis is hitting hard at their livelihood. Drought has added to their problems. The country is now using a new World Bank grant to expand programs it hopes will help farmers hit hard by the food crisis.
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Brief history of Uyghurs in Xinjiang (by Sogdia) ** Before Chinese Han Dynasty 200 BC: Central Asia was a region predominately occupied by ancient Persian tribes such as the sedentary Sogdians ( 粟特), Chorasmians (花剌子模) and, the semi-nomadic such as Scythians (斯基泰, 西徐亞, 塞種), and Alans (奄蔡). The ancient sedentary population played an important role in the history of Central Asia. Tajiks, Pashtuns (普什图), Pamiris (塔吉克) and other Persian groups are still present in the region. The ancient Persian language (Dari) is still the official language in Afganistan and in some areas in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Turkic group of people, such as Uyghurs, came to Central Asia very late in history (after 800 AD), much later than Han Chinese did in 200 BC. ** Chinese Han Dynasty in Xinjiang (206 BC to 220 AD): Han Chinese extended its power influence in the forms of territory and protectorates in today's Xinjiang, part of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Today's Xinjinag was again under the power influence (protectorates and territory) of Tang Dynasty (618-907AD) and became territory of Qing Dynasty (1644-1911AD). Peoples Republic of China has taken over the territory sovereignty over Xinjiang from Qing Dynasty and Republic of China. ** Uyghur emigrated in Xinjiang (840-850 AD): Uyghur Empires (742-848 AD, 回纥or 回鶻) was in today's Mongolia with the capital at Ordu Baliq that located 300 km west of Ulaanbaatar (close to Town of Hotont) and it was ...
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Brief history of Uyghurs in Xinjiang ** Before Chinese Han Dynasty 200 BC: Central Asia was a region predominately occupied by ancient Persian tribes such as the sedentary Sogdians ( 粟特), Chorasmians (花剌子模) and, the semi-nomadic such as Scythians (斯基泰, 西徐亞, 塞種), and Alans (奄蔡). The ancient sedentary population played an important role in the history of Central Asia. Tajiks, Pashtuns (普什图), Pamiris (塔吉克) and other Persian groups are still present in the region. The ancient Persian language (Dari) is still the official language in Afganistan and in some areas in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Turkic group of people, such as Uyghurs, came to Central Asia very late in history (after 800 AD), much later than Han Chinese did in 200 BC. ** Chinese Han Dynasty in Xinjiang (206 BC to 220 AD): Han Chinese extended its power influence in the forms of territory and protectorates in today's Xinjiang, part of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Today's Xinjinag was again under the power influence (protectorates and territory) of Tang Dynasty (618-907AD) and became territory of Qing Dynasty (1644-1911AD). Peoples Republic of China has taken over the territory sovereignty over Xinjiang from Qing Dynasty and Republic of China. ** Uyghur emigrated in Xinjiang (840-850 AD): Uyghur Empires (742-848 AD, 回纥or 回鶻) was in today's Mongolia with the capital at Ordu Baliq that located 300 km west of Ulaanbaatar (close to Town of Hotont) and it was annihilated by ...
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Brief history of Uyghurs in Xinjiang ** Before Chinese Han Dynasty 200 BC: Central Asia was a region predominately occupied by ancient Persian tribes such as the sedentary Sogdians ( 粟特), Chorasmians (花剌子模) and, the semi-nomadic such as Scythians (斯基泰, 西徐亞, 塞種), and Alans (奄蔡). The ancient sedentary population played an important role in the history of Central Asia. Tajiks, Pashtuns (普什图), Pamiris (塔吉克) and other Persian groups are still present in the region. The ancient Persian language (Dari) is still the official language in Afganistan and in some areas in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Turkic group of people, such as Uyghurs, came to Central Asia very late in history (around 700 or 800 AD), much later than Han Chinese did in 200 BC. ** Chinese Han Dynasty in Xinjiang (206 BC to 220 AD): Han Chinese extended its power influence in the forms of territory and protectorates in today's Xinjiang, part of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Today's Xinjinag was again under the power influence (protectorates and territory) of Tang Dynasty (618-907AD) and became territory of Qing Dynasty (1644-1911AD). Peoples Republic of China has taken over the territory sovereignty over Xinjiang from Qing Dynasty and Republic of China. ** Uyghur emigrated in Xinjiang (840-850 AD): Uyghur Empires (742-848 AD, 回纥or 回鶻) was in today's Mongolia with the capital at Ordu Baliq that located 300 km west of Ulaanbaatar (close to Town of Hotont) and it was ...
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Nomadism is the oldest way of life. It wasn't until about 11000 years ago, with the introduction of farming and the domestication of wild animals, that human beings started to settle. And yet, in spite of this, nomadism still exists today and will certainly continue to exist in future since large parts of the Earth's surface cannot be used for anything other than nomadic herding. Salt Caravans in the Niger: Once a year, after the harvest of wheat in Timia´s oasis, situated in the Aïr Mountains, is done, the Kel Ewey who are a subgroup of the Tuareg nomads will traverse the merciless Ténére desert. Almost 600 km lie between Bilma and the paradise-like gardens of Timia. Bilma´s salt constituted a very important trading article at all times. Camel-Caravans carry the salt from Bilma to Agadez and from there further southward to Nigeria. Gold of the Himalayas: The Changpa nomads live cut off from the rest of the world on a barren plateau at an altitude of 4000 metres in the south east of Ladakh in the Himalayas. This inhospitable region, where the livestock has to search far and wide in order to prise something to eat out of the miserly earth, hides a special treasure: the Changpa goats grow a very fine wool under their coats, but only at extremely high altitudes and in extremely cold winters. It is then brushed out in the early summer and sold in the capital city as the precious Pashmina, the "Gold of the Changthang". Steppe Riders in Kyrgystan: "I have found my mission in ...
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Every year, tens of thousands of migrant workers from Kyrgyzstan travel to the Central Asian economic powerhouse of Kazakhstan in search of employment. Thousands of these migrant workers, often together with their children, find work in tobacco farming, where many are subjected to abuse and exploitation by employers supplying tobacco to Philip Morris Kazakhstan, a subsidiary of Philip Morris International, one of the world's largest tobacco companies.
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Christian Paschyn and Mark Stanley, Pulitzer Center A review of this week's underreported news stories from around the world: Kyrgyzstan: Riots after the Coup, Untold Stories Kyrgyzstan: What Happened to a Prominent Journalist? Untold Stories Attack calls US Strategy in Yemen into question, Global Post Surreal beauty on Yemen's remote Socotra Island, The Seattle Times Ethiopia's Abundant Farming Investments Leave Many Still Hungry, PBS NewsHour Boat Clinics Serve India's Isolated Villages (Audio), Untold Stories India: On a Remote Island Village Health Worker Challenges Traditions, Untold Stories Bolivia: The Planet or Death? Untold Stories Bolivian Climate Summit Produces Final Report, Untold Stories Invitation to YouTube Project: Report Screening and Reception
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I'm Alex Villarreal with the VOA Special English Education Report, from voaspecialenglish.com | http Last week, we talked about the conflict between sleepy teenagers and early morning classes. Many people commented on our website and Facebook page. For example, Damla Ece in Turkey wrote: I agree with the idea of starting lessons later so teenagers can feel better in the morning. But sleeping more than seven hours can be wasting time for students. Tran in Vietnam disagreed: I think teenagers, on the average, need eight to ten hours of sleep everyday. It's useless trying to force them to concentrate while they can't concentrate.Enilton Neymakes in Brazil goes to sleep late and wakes up in the afternoon and wrote: That's my life, but at least I am studying. Afshin Heydari from Tehran says schools should start early to avoid heavy traffic later in the morning. And Suze from Jordan wrote: When I was a teenager, I enjoyed taking my courses as early as possible. That way I could find a long time in the day to do my own activities.But Azra from Kyrgyzstan said the reason schools start early there is a lack of classrooms. Omid in Afghanistan calls teenagers the destiny-makers of a society. So they must be more alert and active in order to be more successful.And Joruji in Japan wrote: When I was a teenager, I used to get up before six to go to school, which was far from home, and I don't remember having problems. I think nowadays the Internet, TV games and cell phones make teens go ...
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食托邦--第二屆台灣國際錄像藝術展Eattopia--2010 Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition 鳳甲美術館Hong-Gah Museum--Oct. 2, 2010~Jan. 2, 2011 策展人陳永賢&胡朝聖Curators： Chen Yung-Hsien & Sean CS Hu Continuing from Chew's Culture Foundation's 2008 premier of "Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition", curators, Chen Yung-Hsien and Sean CS Hu, have proposed "Eattopia" to be the theme for this year. Through this topic, audiences are encouraged to inspect the invisible truth behind the food we eat, and through video art to contemplate and also respond to the mutual fate that the entire human race is destined to face. The "International Invited Exhibition" portion includes artists from Sweden, USA, Spain, Australia, Philippines, Kyrgyzstan, and Taiwan, for the total of nine internationally renowned artists from seven nations (for details please refer to attachment 1). The "Internationally Call for Entries" portion includes 19 artworks that have been selected from 115 entries submitted from 27 nations around the world (for details please refer to attachment 2). The contents of these artworks exude vitality and diversity, and also possess important significance for our time. What to eat today? Whom to dine with? People's fantasies and desires toward eating well have formed a virtual realm composed between food and life. In the real life, when faced with the most challenging need for survival, being hungry or being full are key fundamental elements for the making of a utopian ...
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Can we get 100 likes? :D More info below Presents are special drops available only during the Christmas holiday season (December 15th-31st), that have a chance to be dropped by any enemy except an enemy spawned by statues. Presents will even drop on worlds created prior to the 1.1.1 patch and lacking a snow biome. The chance to drop a present is 7.69% (1 in 13). They exist in three colors: Blue, Green and Yellow. Presents may only be opened when in a player's inventory; trying to open a present in a chest will not work. As all enemies have an equal chance of dropping presents, players who are specifically trying to acquire them should focus on areas with high spawn rates and easy enemies. Battle Potions and a Water Candle make more enemies spawn, as does fighting in the Jungle or during a Blood Moon. Players may also gather presents as a byproduct of other activities, for instance while farming Pixie Dust or Cursed Flames. An effective way to quickly farm presents is to fight the Eater of Worlds. Since each segment of this boss counts as an enemy, players that are powerful enough to destroy it with ease can obtain many presents provided the segments are destroyed where the player can collect their drops easily. The only downsides to this method are obtaining the needed materials to craft Worm Food and the difficulty the fight poses for less powerful players. Candy Cane Block, 50% (1 in 2) chance - can be made into Candy Cane Wall Green Candy Cane Block, 42.68% (3 in 7 ...
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Short Movie about events about discrimination and Human Rights violations that happened in Kazakhstan.
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The real boss here is Garl Vinland (Maiden Astraea's bodyguard) as Maiden doesn't attack you at all, even if you get right up in her face (Garl Vinland won't allow that though). As you enter the fog you will see a few worshipping depraved ones, ignore them as they will not attack you. As you enter you will see Garl Vinland blocking the path to the left, you can go down there and fight him head on if you wish, but that is the trickier way to deal with this boss battle (although it isn't too hard that way either). Instead head down the path to the right all the way to the next bunch of worshippers, and you will see Garl run back towards Maiden to protect her. From here you could arrow her, but you would lose all strength in the arrows from here so don't bother. Now backtrack the way you came, and down the path Garl was protecting and towards Maiden. As you approach Garl will approach you, but he will then back track. Get your free aim on Maiden and arrow her. She has a healing miracle she uses, but as long as you keep the arrows flying towards her she won't have time to heal herself enough. Once she is dealt with Garl is no longer a threat, so leave him (or fight him if you want) and head back to the Nexus. Don't forget to return straight away though, cos you will see Garl's body armour and shield lying there now, collect that as the Dark Silver armor and Dark Silver shiled has fantastic magic protection! --------------------- Let's Game in HD twitter.com
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More than one billion people worldwide earn their income from agriculture, working steadily to increase productivity and their standard of living. But farming brings risks that can undermine or even eliminate the gains hard won in the fields. From manual labour to machines, dangerous chemicals and unsanitary workplaces: farming families struggle with dangers at work and at home every day, but there's a WIND of Change coming, as ILO TV reports.
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Brief history of Uyghurs in Xinjiang ** Before Chinese Han Dynasty 200 BC: Central Asia was a region predominately occupied by ancient Persian tribes such as the sedentary Sogdians ( 粟特), Chorasmians (花剌子模) and, the semi-nomadic such as Scythians (斯基泰, 西徐亞, 塞種), and Alans (奄蔡). The ancient sedentary population played an important role in the history of Central Asia. Tajiks, Pashtuns (普什图), Pamiris (塔吉克) and other Persian groups are still present in the region. The ancient Persian language (Dari) is still the official language in Afganistan and in some areas in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Turkic group of people, such as Uyghurs, came to Central Asia very late in history (after 800 AD), much later than Han Chinese did in 200 BC. ** Chinese Han Dynasty in Xinjiang (206 BC to 220 AD): Han Chinese extended its power influence in the forms of territory and protectorates in today's Xinjiang, part of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Today's Xinjinag was again under the power influence (protectorates and territory) of Tang Dynasty (618-907AD) and became territory of Qing Dynasty (1644-1911AD). Peoples Republic of China has taken over the territory sovereignty over Xinjiang from Qing Dynasty and Republic of China. ** Uyghur emigrated in Xinjiang (840-850 AD): Uyghur Empires (742-848 AD, 回纥or 回鶻) was in today's Mongolia with the capital at Ordu Baliq that located 300 km west of Ulaanbaatar (close to Town of Hotont) and it was annihilated by ...
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Video by AntiDefmBrief history of Uyghurs in Xinjiang ** Before Chinese Han Dynasty 200 BC: Central Asia was a region predominately occupied by ancient Persian tribes such as the sedentary Sogdians ( 粟特), Chorasmians (花剌子模) and, the semi-nomadic such as Scythians (斯基泰, 西徐亞, 塞種), and Alans (奄蔡). The ancient sedentary population played an important role in the history of Central Asia. Tajiks, Pashtuns (普什图), Pamiris (塔吉克) and other Persian groups are still present in the region. The ancient Persian language (Dari) is still the official language in Afganistan Tajikistan and used in some areas in Uzbekistan. Turkic group of people, such as Uyghurs, came to Central Asia very late in history (after 800 AD), much later than Han Chinese did in 200 BC. ** Chinese Han Dynasty in Xinjiang (206 BC to 220 AD): Han Chinese extended its power influence in the forms of territory and protectorates in today's Xinjiang, part of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Today's Xinjinag was again under the power influence (protectorates and territory) of Tang Dynasty (618-907AD) and became territory of Qing Dynasty (1644-1911AD). Peoples Republic of China has taken over the territory sovereignty over Xinjiang from Qing Dynasty and Republic of China. ** Uyghur emigrated in Xinjiang (840-850 AD): Uyghur Empires (742-848 AD, 回纥or 回鶻) was in today's Mongolia with the capital at Ordu Baliq that located 300 km west of Ulaanbaatar (close to Town of Hotont) and it ...
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video by AntidefmBrief history of Uyghurs in Xinjiang ** Before Chinese Han Dynasty 200 BC: Central Asia was a region predominately occupied by ancient Persian tribes such as the sedentary Sogdians ( 粟特), Chorasmians (花剌子模) and, the semi-nomadic such as Scythians (斯基泰, 西徐亞, 塞種), and Alans (奄蔡). The ancient sedentary population played an important role in the history of Central Asia. Tajiks, Pashtuns (普什图), Pamiris (塔吉克) and other Persian groups are still present in the region. The ancient Persian language (Dari) is still the official language in Afganistan and in some areas in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Turkic group of people, such as Uyghurs, came to Central Asia very late in history (after 800 AD), much later than Han Chinese did in 200 BC. ** Chinese Han Dynasty in Xinjiang (206 BC to 220 AD): Han Chinese extended its power influence in the forms of territory and protectorates in today's Xinjiang, part of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Today's Xinjinag was again under the power influence (protectorates and territory) of Tang Dynasty (618-907AD) and became territory of Qing Dynasty (1644-1911AD). Peoples Republic of China has taken over the territory sovereignty over Xinjiang from Qing Dynasty and Republic of China. ** Uyghur emigrated in Xinjiang (840-850 AD): Uyghur Empires (742-848 AD, 回纥or 回鶻) was in today's Mongolia with the capital at Ordu Baliq that located 300 km west of Ulaanbaatar (close to Town of Hotont) and it ...
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A Conversation with Global Leaders. Cynthia McFadden (moderator), anchor and correspondent, ABC News speaks with Michelle Bachelet, executive director, UN Women and Melanne Verveer, US ambassador-at-large for Global Women's Issues.
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