LAOS: Diversifying crops to cope with climate change

LAOS: Diversifying crops to cope with climate change:

LUANG PRABANG, 13 August 2012 (IRIN) - Lemons and sweet bamboo may not be associated with frontline efforts to adapt to climate change in most parts of the world, but in Kioutaloun village in northern Laos, rice farmers hit by landslides, land erosion and severe flooding are looking to different crops.