News from IFGR and the rivers of the world

Prayer to Rain, a documentary by Franco-Kyrgyz filmmaker Janyl Jusupjan, takes us on a cinematic journey along the disappearing rivers of Central Asia and the Aral Sea. Janyl and her colleague Christian Lelong document the lives of the inhabitants of the Amudarya River, which once flowed into the Aral Sea. Their 3,000-kilometer journey begins in […]

  Climate change manifested itself in a particularly alarming way in the form of drought in the summer of this year, aggravating already scarce water resources in Central Asia. If plans to adapt to climate change are not implemented rapidly in the region, the ecological crisis, which is simultaneously economic, social and political, could have […]