Standing in his field on the outskirts of Pokhara and below the dazzling snows of the Annapurna mountains, Xiang Shaohua points to peach saplings in his orchard. The seedlings were sent to him by his ...

If Kelsey Bigbee has any say in the matter, the moringa tree will become a household name in Mankato and beyond. The leaves, seeds, flowers and pods of this subtropical tree, grown by farmers in Nepal ...

A village on Nepal’s border with India has found a way to reduce conflicts with wild Asian elephants in recent years: By switching their crops from rice and maize, which elephants love to eat, to tea ...

"How can we prepare our paddy fields when we do not know which month in any year the monsoon rains will drench our fields?" asks one farmer PANITYANKI, Nepal (AlertNet) – For most of his adult life, ...

Ladderworks is a publishing platform of diverse picture books and online curriculum with the mission to empower over a million kids to become social entrepreneurs. Our current series features ...

Himalayan farmers are at the forefront of the climate crisis, having to deal with extreme heat or cold, prolonged droughts or excessive rain, landslides and floods. But they are also the most ...

KATHMANDU (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Nepali farmer Bhoj Raj Paudel had just left home to visit his parents when a hill above it collapsed, destroying his ranch and a paddy field and flooding a ...

Tokyo (CNN) — Banks across Japan began stocking their ATMs on Wednesday with shiny new yen notes sourced from an unlikely location – vibrant yellow flowering paperbush shrubs that grow on craggy ...