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Safe and Secure Water for Uganda (2016)

aka: Secure Safe Water in Uganda’s Chanching Climate

Subject

Development studies

Distribution

Film

This short film looks at the impact of climate change on water and health by following the introduction of a payment-by-results pilot system in rural Uganda, whereby local private sector professionals earn...

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Remapping Uganda’s Future (2015)

Subject

Development studies

Distribution

Film

Uganda is already experiencing the impacts of climate variability and associated economic losses and these impacts are expected to increase over the next 50 years. This short film examines the economic...

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Living on the Go (2014)

Director

Arjun Pandey

Producer

Nick Rance; Ambica Kapoor

Subject

Development studies

Distribution

Film

A team of researchers from the University of Dhaka (Bangladesh) and the University of Sussex, have joined together to look at the impact of climate change on migration. This short film, based on their...

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Ou Lecture 2008: The Impact of China on Development (2008)

Subject

Development studies; Economics

Professor Raphael Kaplinsky explores the impact on international development of the rise of the Asian drivers in general - and China in particular - and what implications this has for development strategy...

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Forgotten Village, The (1941)

Director

Alexander Hammid; Herbert Kline

Subject

Anthropology; Development studies; Geography; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 65 minutes), £10.99

Documentary examining the conflicts between the coming of modernization and the traditional culture of a small Mexican village in the early years of the 20th century. Alexander Hammid, famous for his...

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Unwin Lecture, The (2004)

Subject

Civil Engineering & Building; Environmental science

Video of a lecture on sustainable development and ways of using brownfields sites, given at the Institution of Civil Engineers by Professor Robert M. Kalin of Queen’s University Belfast. He gives case...

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Life and Debt (2004)

Subject

Development studies; Economics

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 82 minutes), £7.99

Looks at the less savoury effects of globalisation on the island of Jamaica. With independence came the need for money for development, but the strictures from the IMF and World Bank that came with the loans...

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Chocolate Farmer, The (2012)

Director

Rohan Fernando

Subject

Agriculture; Anthropology; Development studies; Environmental science; Geography

An unspoiled corner of southern Belize, where cocoa farmer and father Eladio Pop manually works his plantation in the tradition of his Mayan ancestors: as a steward of the land. The film captures a year in...

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Africa’s Information Revolution: Rhetoric and Reality (2015)

Subject

Development studies; Information technology

Video podcast from the Oxford Internet Institute. Padrig Carmody analyses the phenomenal recent growth in mobile phone and internet usage in Africa. Based on over two hundred firm level interviews in...

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Black Panther (1969)

Subject

Politics & government; Social Studies

This is the film the Black Panthers used to promote their cause. Shot in 1969, in Oakland, San Francisco and Sacramento, this exemplar of 1960s activist filmmaking traces the development of the Black Panther...

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