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Various wide shots of oat fields2. Various of farmers picking up oats and loading into truck3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Avelino Miranda, Farmer in Achacachi, Bolivia:\"Yes, we were badly affected by the previous...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eFILE: Achacachi - 25 May 2011\u003cbr/\u003e1. Various wide shots of oat fields\u003cbr/\u003e2. Various of farmers picking up oats and loading into truck\u003cbr/\u003e3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Avelino Miranda, Farmer in Achacachi, Bolivia:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Yes, we were badly affected by the previous rain in February, but since then there has not been much. So the grass, oats and quinoa are behind, they have not grown much.\"\u003cbr/\u003e4. Various of oat fields\u003cbr/\u003eFILE: La Paz - 25 May 2011\u003cbr/\u003e5. Miguel Urioste, agricultural economist, pointing to map\u003cbr/\u003e6. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Miguel Urioste, Bolivian agricultural economist:\u003cbr/\u003e\"In our country we have the simultaneous affects of floods, freezes, droughts that have been caused by the change of seasons and climate change.  It is estimated that gross domestic product will decline by around three percent as a result of climate change in Bolivia in the coming years.\"\u003cbr/\u003eFILE: Achacachi, Bolivia - 25 May 2011\u003cbr/\u003e7. Wide shot food market\u003cbr/\u003e8. Medium shot woman sitting in front of food\u003cbr/\u003e9. Close-up grains of barley for sale\u003cbr/\u003eLa Paz - 20 June 2011\u003cbr/\u003e10. Wide exterior National Congress building\u003cbr/\u003e11. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Roger Pinto, Member of Food Commission in Bolivian Senate/National Convergence Party member:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I think it's more the result of government policy than drought.  Do we lack water?  No, we have plenty of water, what we lack is the willingness to implement irrigation systems.  Is there a shortage of land in our country (to farm)?  No, of course there is land in our country, there are millions of hectares.\"\u003cbr/\u003e12. Cutaway Pinto\u003cbr/\u003eFILE: La Paz - 25 May 2011\u003cbr/\u003e13. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Nemecia Achacollo, Bolivian Minister of Rural Development and Land:\u003cbr/\u003e\"This year we will have 1 million bushels of sugar (46 million kilograms) that we will place in reserve.  If there is a shortage in the year, in the next months, we have stored reserves.\"\u003cbr/\u003e14. Various of food market\u003cbr/\u003eBolivia's farmers were hit from all sides last year - drought, floods and wildfires - forcing the poor Andean nation to import staple foods on an unprecedented scale.\u003cbr/\u003eA double blow of floods and severe drought dramatically shrank the land area under cultivation last year, while fires blackened fields in the eastern lowlands that produce most crops. \u003cbr/\u003eNow, the high plains are suffering erratic weather, as the country is hit by severe climate swings during the El Nino and La Nina weather phenomena over the Pacific Ocean.\u003cbr/\u003eGolden fields of wheat and oats near the town of Achacachi wilted last month under early snows.\u003cbr/\u003eAvelino Miranda, a 70-year-old local farmer, said that all his crops were affected by the weather.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Yes, we were badly affected by the previous rain in February, but since then there has not been much. So the grass, oats and quinoa are behind, they have not grown much,\" he lamented, saying the stunted oats were being harvested only to feed animals.\u003cbr/\u003eMiguel Urioste, an economist focusing on agriculture, blames climate change for the drought, and claimed that in coming years climate change could lead to a 3 percent decline in Bolivia's gross domestic product.\u003cbr/\u003eA study published in last month's journal Science by researchers from Stanford University and Columbia University said global warming since 1980 has had an impact on crop yields, pushing up prices of wheat and corn crops.\u003cbr/\u003eIn Bolivia the situation is worsened during drought by its heavy reliance on rainfall rather than irrigation, a point made by Roger Pinto, a member of the Food Commission in the Bolivian Senate.\u003cbr/\u003e\"I think it's more the result of government policy than drought.  Do we lack water?  No, we have plenty of water, what we lack is the willingness to implement irrigation systems.  Is there a shortage of land in our country (to farm)?  No, of course there is land in our country, there are millions of hectares,\" he said.\u003cbr/\u003eFarmers in Bolivia have also blamed the government for imposing price controls and export restrictions instead of letting the free market prevail as it does in nearly all the other Latin American countries similarly suffering bad weather.\u003cbr/\u003eIn Bolivia's eastern lowlands, soybeans that would ordinarily have been exported languished in their silos because they could not find local buyers.\u003cbr/\u003eSunflower crops rotted in the fields because farmers could neither sell locally nor get export licences, blaming an inefficient bureaucracy.\u003cbr/\u003eThe political cost for President Evo Morales is high. After winning re-election by a landslide in 2009, his approval rating is now about 45 percent. He is now seeking advice from the farmers, including agribusinessmen in the pro-capitalist east where his fiercest political foes reside.\u003cbr/\u003eHis government had imposed price controls and an export ban on corn, wheat, sugar and other staples in 2007. Two years later, it added vegetable oils, sunflower seeds and soybeans to the list of staples that could only be exported if officials decided the domestic market was adequately supplied.\u003cbr/\u003eBut export controls are necessary to prevent food from being smuggled out to neighbouring countries such as Peru, said Nemecia Achacollo, the government's rural development minister.\u003cbr/\u003eBolivia has long produced most of its food, but imports of sugar and corn shot up 68 percent to 143 million US dollars in the first three months of this year to compensate for slumping output.\u003cbr/\u003eEarlier this year, thousands of tons of sugar were smuggled out of Bolivia. The government, powerless to halt the entire outflow, was forced to let the price rise to nearly double.\u003cbr/\u003eAnnual food inflation, 18.5 percent in March, was the third highest in the region behind Venezuela and Paraguay, according to U.N. figures.\u003cbr/\u003eNow Morales, himself a former coca farmer, is calling food his top priority and is asking farmers for advice.\u003cbr/\u003eMorales has made a series of concessions and spending decisions that have been welcomed by the otherwise distrustful farmers. One concession is to stop opposing the introduction of genetically modified crops other than soybeans. 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