Reuters: Asghar Leghari had had enough. The farmer was tired of watching his family fight against the unpredictable weather that threatened their crops in Rahim Yar Khan District, in Pakistan’s South Punjab region.
He was also disheartened by the fates of many small-scale farmers around him, whose struggles with weather shifts have ended in poverty. And he was angry at Pakistan’s seeming inability to protect its people against the devastating effects of climate change.
So Leghari decided there was only......
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Posted by Reuters: Anam Gill on November 16th, 2015
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