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Winds of change in Limi Valley

Tucked away in a faraway corner of the magnificent Limi Valley in Humla, a remote district in Nepal, is Halji – a community of pastoralists and subsistence farmers carrying on life at least as old as its 1,300-year old monastery. People here still barter goods and services. Cash remains a fairly new transaction system, and the village is adapting to a slow yet inevitable transition to money – ‘economy’ as most of the rest of the world understands it.

Chimi Seldon

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Pema Buthri points to the mountains through which water flows into Halji. Photo: Chimi Seldon/ICIMOD

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