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Climate Change - The Human Cost

Mobile phone technology could be used to correctly diagnose and treat banana diseases David Gough/IRIN
Focusing on Asia, these films highlight the threat to Vietnam's coastal mangrove forests, the dwindling fish stocks of Southeast Asia's largest freshwater lake, and the innovative introduction of floating schools to flood-prone Bangladesh.

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Kuena Setlabe of Hatsui village. This village has had insufficient rain and food is scarce
Photo: IRIN
In the arid farmlands of eastern Kenya, a German NGO has been helping communities to harvest rain. Using the occasional rock features that interrupt the otherwise flat landscape, they are building simple reservoirs to catch rainwater as it runs down the rock face.

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