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• 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

  Outlets

  Morning Edition

  Tags

  Themes: Economy, Environment

  Regions: Central America

  Media: Audio

  Other Contributors: Sandy Tolan

  Other Tags: land degradation, displacement, Honduras, migration

• 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

  Tags

  Themes: Economy, Environment

  Regions: Central America

  Media: Audio

  Other Contributors: Sandy Tolan

  Other Tags: land degradation, Honduras, migration