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• The Homelands Blog

  Migration Doc’s Timing is Sadly Apt

  August 26, 2010

  A story I reported from Honduras and Virginia for BBC’s domestic service, Radio 4, is being rebroadcast today in slightly edited form on the BBC World Service program “Assignment.” “Cutting the Lifeline” looks at the …

• The Homelands Blog

  Radio Doc Explores Impact of Crisis on Migrants

  May 5, 2010

  A documentary on BBC Radio 4 today looks at the impact of the global economic crisis on migrant workers and the people who depend on them. “Cutting the Lifeline” was reported by Homelands’ Jonathan Miller …

• Claudine LoMonaco

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  Lobster Diver

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  Lobster Diver

  Romulo Greham, a Miskito Indian on Honduras’ Caribbean coast, almost lost his life while diving for lobsters for the U.S. market. Now he’s trying to keep other divers from the repeating his mistakes.

  Walk into your local chain restaurant and you can get a lobster tail for around 15 bucks. Ever wonder where the lobster comes from, or why it’s so cheap?

  The U.S. imports about 100 million pounds of lobster from international waters every year. Much of it is caught by hand by divers in the Caribbean Sea.

  In Honduras, about 3,000 men make their living that way. Every year several dozen of them get seriously hurt, and some of them die.

  Romulo Greham, a Miskito Indian, almost lost his life in a diving accident. Now he’s trying to keep other divers from the repeating his mistakes.

  Date

  October 11, 2007

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  Marketplace

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  Themes: Food, Lives, Economy, Culture

  Regions: Caribbean

  Media: Audio

  Other Tags: Honduras, lobster, diver, diving, disability

• Sandy Tolan, Nancy Postero

  Vanishing Homelands

  Refugees from a Fallen Landscape, Part 2

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  Sandy Tolan, Nancy Postero

  Vanishing Homelands

  Refugees from a Fallen Landscape, Part 2

  Part 2 of a two-part report from Honduras examines attempts by foreign and private relief agencies to regenerate the soil and help farmers stay on their lands.

  For decades, inequitable land distribution, slash-and-burn farming, and uncontrolled erosion have turned entire regions in Latin America into desert, and forced hundreds of thousands of farmers into towns and cities.

  This has created a new kind of migrant: the environmental refugee.

  But two programs in southern Honduras are looking at ways to help restore the damaged soils, and keep farmers on their lands.

  One is a grassroots effort that could serve as a model for small-scale development projects. The other is a U.S.-funded plan that is trying to change the way people farm across the entire country.

  Narration is by Edward James Olmos, who hosted a series of 13 half-hour Vanishing Homelands specials.

  Date

  May 28, 1992

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  Morning Edition

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  Themes: Economy, Environment

  Regions: Central America

  Media: Audio

  Other Contributors: Sandy Tolan

  Other Tags: displacement, Honduras, migration, land degradation

• Sandy Tolan, Nancy Postero

  Vanishing Homelands

  Refugees from a Fallen Landscape, Part 1

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  Sandy Tolan, Nancy Postero

  Vanishing Homelands

  Refugees from a Fallen Landscape, Part 1

  Part One of a two-part feature about the effects of deforestation and desertification follows poor farmers in Honduras who are fleeing their damaged lands to an uncertain life in Tegucigalpa.

  In many parts of Latin America, the ecological crisis of deforestation and soil erosion has become so severe that hundreds of thousands of farmers and their families have been forced to abandon their lands and flee to the cities.

  In southern Honduras, a generation of poor land distribution and slash-and-burn farming has turned once-fertile lands into useless patches of rock.

  Narration is by Edward James Olmos, who hosted a series of 13 half-hour Vanishing Homelands specials.

  Date

  May 27, 1992

  Outlets

  Morning Edition

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  Themes: Economy, Environment

  Regions: Central America

  Media: Audio

  Other Contributors: Sandy Tolan

  Other Tags: Honduras, migration, land degradation

• Sandy Tolan, Nancy Postero

  Vanishing Homelands

  Shrimp Cocktail

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  Sandy Tolan, Nancy Postero

  Vanishing Homelands

  Shrimp Cocktail

  Backed by U.S. government funds, salt flats along the southern Honduran coast have been converted into giant shrimp farms where lax enforcement of environmental, social, and labor laws are the norm.

  Throughout the Americas, the U.S. government and international lenders are implementing a vast new policy designed to turn the hemisphere into one big common market.

  The plan first calls for a North American Free Trade Agreement. Then, all of North and South American would be linked under the so-called “Enterprise for the Americas.”

  Under this strategy, member countries would privatize national industries, implement austerity programs, and convert their economies to produce exports for the United States.

  In many nations, this new policy is already in place. In this story, we travel to Honduras, where U.S. and World Bank loans have helped build prosperous shrimp farms along the country’s southern coast. But some critics warn of serious environmental and social costs.

  Narration is by Edward James Olmos, who hosted a series of 13 half-hour Vanishing Homelands specials.

  Date

  April 18, 1992

  Outlets

  All Things Considered

  Tags

  Themes: Economy, Environment

  Regions: Central America

  Media: Audio

  Other Contributors: Sandy Tolan

  Other Tags: NAFTA, shrimp, Honduras