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Still Carrying Loads and Thrashing Barley

By: Menaka Hamal - 12 Feb 2015

by Menaka Hamal Rasuwa district’s Gatlang village was once known to be a ‘black’ village because of the black tiles used on the roofs of houses. Since the devastating earthquake of 2015, though, it has turned into a dispersed and

Climate Change in Downstream Areas of the Indus River Basin

By: Abid Hussain - 12 Feb 2015

Climate change is inducing severe impacts on agriculture, water, food security, human health and habitat in the Hindu-Kush Himalayan (HKH) region. Understanding the inter-linkages of upstream, midstream and downstream areas is very important to mitigate the impacts of and adapt to the climatic changes.