The Gathering Storm: Swapping crops

For millennia the people of southern Nepal have grown rice – in a country where the grain is a symbol of worship, other crops are considered unworthy. But monsoon rains, which rice cultivation so desperately depends on, have become increasingly erratic, leading farmers to think, and in some cases implement, the unthinkable – bananas!

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