From the Discipline: Lao farmers serve up fish with rice

Rice-fish has a millennia outdated historical past within the landlocked South East Asian nation, however the observe has fallen out or observe largely because of the intensification of rice manufacturing and the accompanying pesticide use.

Nevertheless, a mixture of inhabitants development, deforestation and injury to the pure setting has led to a decline in meals manufacturing and a rising incapability of communities to maintain themselves.  

However now, farmers are working with native authorities and the UN Meals and Agriculture Group (FAO) to diversify the vary of aquatic species grown in rice fields, creating within the course of a extra productive and biologically numerous setting which helps to scale back poverty.

Forward of World Food Day, marked yearly on 16 October, learn extra here about how farmers are serving up fish with rice.