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From Our Own Correspondent: Sea, Land, Air ... and queues

Sea, Land, Air ... and queues

18/04/2015

BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent, Sea, Land, Air ... and queues

Libya's migrant crisis, terracing in Ethiopia, Indian air quality and Venezuela's shops

Correspondents' insights into Libya's migrant crisis; how Ethiopia's Tigray region fights drought with terracing; poor air quality in India and long lines outside Venezuelan shops

Around the world, individuals swim against the tide to try and improve their lives, in dispatches from correspondents and writers, introduced by Pascale Harter. In this edition:

Quentin Sommerville meets survivors - and losers - trying to crest the wave of Libya's migrant crisis, which has turned the Mediterranean into the world's most lethal migration route; 

Chris Haslam joins a work party to find out how Ethiopia's Tigray region is fighting drought and desertification with terracing; 

Anu Anand struggles for breath in New Delhi and reflects on poor air quality in India;

 and Ian Pannell joins the long lines of people outside Venezuelan shops, looking for subsidised goods and good deals. 

Photo: a group of men from the village of Abr'ha Weatsbaha, Tigray region, Ethiopia, take up their tools for a day's collective labour shoring up terracing nearby. The work helps to keep the land fertile and reduce drought. (C) Chris Haslam

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