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Video-based pack looking at energy from the standpoint of a need for change. Begins with some predictions of future world energy consumption and their impossible consequences and goes on to explore...
Argues that neglect of women farmers is a major reason for famine in Africa. Three quarters of Africa’s food is grown by women, but most of Africa’s land is owned by men, and most agricultural investment...
Tells the story of some of the women in Zimbabwe since independence in 1980. During the War of Independence many women fought side by side with the men. Everyone hoped their lives would change. Women...
For nearly two decades Bill Mollison has travelled the globe spreading the word about permaculture (permanent agriculture), the method of sustainable agriculture that he devised. Permaculture weaves together...
Mike Campbell is one of a handful of white farmers still left in Zimbabwe since President Robert Mugabe began enforcing his controversial land seizure program, an initiative intended to reclaim white-owned...
A dramatised biography of Nelson Mandela and his wife Winnie, filmed in Zimbabwe. Traces Mandela’s shift in philosophy from passive resistance to armed struggle.
As the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) meets to consider whether to lift the ban on trading in ivory, a report from Africa looks the effects of a...
Shows what happens in poorer countries when natural disasters such as earthquakes, typhoons and drought strike. In contrast to the stereotyped images of people in developing countries as hopeless, passive...
Looks at the background to the Bingham Report. Shell and BP, both British companies, are shown to have been involved in supplying oil to Rhodesia in defiance of both British and United Nations prohibition....
Documentary on Dr Glynn Vale’s research into the tsetse fly - a carrier of trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness - a major killer of domestic animals in Africa). His research in Zimbabwe led to the discovery...
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