Utopia Limited. Tape 1

Synopsis: Examines a world system rooted in the unequal distribution of wealth and power and shows how the issues affect people in the UK.
1: Shows work being done in Britain to increase awareness of how the wider world works.
2: An investigation into the co-existence of food surplus in the North with widespread hunger in the South.
3: A case study from Malaysia non whether Third World countries can solve the food supply problem through the modern techniques of the Green Revolution.
4: Brazil, a country rich in resources, is the world’s largest debtor, largely becaue of its dependence on imported oil. How can developming countries escape from the trap of oil-dependency?
5: The critical energy crisis for many int he Third World is the rapidly disappearing supplies of firewood. Shows how Sri Lanka copes with the problem.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video; Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 150 min.
Year of production: 1983
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Notes: Broadcast on C4 from 18/10/83
Uses: Undergraduate and postgraduate students of agricultural economics and policy problems.*
Subjects: Development studies
Keywords: agricultural development; Brazil; developing countries; food production and distribution; Malaysia; Sri Lanka

Title: One world
Synopsis: 1: Shows work being done in Britain to increase awareness of how the wider world works.
Title: Food for all
Synopsis: 2: An investigation into the co-existence of food surplus in the North with widespread hunger in the South.
Title: Revolution in a rice bowl
Synopsis: 3: A case study from Malaysia non whether Third World countries can solve the food supply problem through the modern techniques of the Green Revolution.
Title: Energy trap, The
Synopsis: 4: Brazil, a country rich in resources, is the world's largest debtor, largely becaue of its dependence on imported oil. How can developming countries escape from the trap of oil-dependency?
Title: Burning issue, A
Synopsis: 5: The critical energy crisis for many int he Third World is the rapidly disappearing supplies of firewood. Shows how Sri Lanka copes with the problem.

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