Climate change:

Affects poor nations

BOLIVIA: Climate change has seriously threatened the poverty reduction efforts in developing countries such as Bolivia as a rising temperature had taken a toll on their agriculture, the Health Action International (HAI) in Lima said on Monday.

According to a report of the HAI, the developing nations are in disadvantage geographically because most of them have higher temperatures.

In Bolivia, climate change has resulted in a desertification of 41 percent of its land.

Climate change is also blamed for the increase in the number of low income people in developing countries and the growth in mortality rate, the report said. It is delaying the economic and social development of developing countries, it added.

The HAI is an international organization working to increase access to essential medicines and improve their rational use.

La Paz, Tuesday, Xinhua