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About a relatively prosperous family living on the outskirts of Ouagadougou, capital of Upper Volta, who make their living by trade and by farming a field which lies outside the city limits.
Contrasts past and present conditions of the Dust Bowl area of the southern Great Plains. Shows newsreel footage of the area during the dust storms of the early 1930s. Interviews residents in Dalhart, Texas,...
Canadian scientist Dr Graeme Mather, who work with cloud seeding in South Africa to prove that clouds could be made to rain by means of human intervention, believed that after 30 years he learned how to end...
Feature-length documentary depicting the lifestyle of the indigenous Tarahumara, a light-footed running tribe who are striving to maintain their ancient culture in the depths of Mexico’s Copper Canyons....
About a peasant family living in the village of Piela - a loosely nucleated settlement of compounds with little centrality - in the central part of Upper Volta, who make their living primarily by farming,...
A memoir of Chopi life before and after the civil war and drought in Mozambique, juxtaposing scenes of Zantzinger’s visit in 1973 with what was left of the Chopi way of life 20 years later, as many Chopi...
Looks at solutions for the crisis in agriculture that is affecting north-east Brazil, where rain forests have been destroyed, slash-and-burn farming practices have degraded soil structures, and drought leads...
The story of an excavation at Mellor, on the spur of a hill on the Western edge of the Peak District. The ground showed no evidence of archaeological features until a green line appeared across a field in...
Introduces basic concepts, processes and problems relating to the environment. Spans specific, technological, social, scientific and philosophical approaches. Considers current environment matters such as...
Garden designers from New Zealand, California and Toronto explain their gardening ideas. Shows a number of gardens including Claudia Ellis’ ‘still life’ garden, Mendocino, California; Andrew Hodge’s...
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