Educated Afghan Women Offer Economic Resilience in the Face of Climate Change and Conflict [Video]
Publisher: PBS
Author(s): Beth Murphy
Date: 2018
Topics: Climate Change, Conflict Prevention, Gender, Livelihoods
Countries: Afghanistan
Drought is drying up farms across Afghanistan, cracking the earth and threatening the only way of life the majority has ever known. It's in the fields where a new war is being waged between two forces the people can't control: climate change and terrorism. But, as special correspondent Beth Murphy of The GroundTruth Projects reports, some are seeing greater reason to let their daughters be educated.