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Tells of the devastating famine suffered by the Irish rural poor from 1845 to 1851, which led to over a million deaths. 1: Examines the social background of the Irish ‘potato culture’ and looks at the...
An African perspective on the reasons why people in Africa still face a food crisis nine years after the Ethiopian famine started to dominate headlines. Looks at long-term solutions for the continent’s...
Many countries are still prey to famine and poverty in the 1990s. The causes of famine are varied and controversial - disease, over-population, natural disasters and war are all seen as contributors. It is...
This four part series examines the causes and effects of poverty in Ireland, which led to the Great Famine of the 1840s, during which around a million people died. The episodes are as follows: 1. Causes of...
During the 1970s and 1980s the recurrence of famine in rural areas of Africa resulted in many hundreds of thousands of deaths, notably in the Sahel, in Ethiopia and in Mozambique. Well publicised famine...
Examines the way television news and documentaries covered the Ethiopian famine of 1984-5, using a ‘Heart of the Matter’ documentary by David Jessel to examine the usefulness of food aid and the question...
In 1974 world attention was focused on a sever famine in Bangladesh which killed hundreds of thousands of people. flooding in that year had destroyed crops and killed livestock, but when similar floods...
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...
This enjoyable and entertaining film tells the history of the world in 15 minutes. We see an animated game of chance played with dice, and ships sailing for gold, across continents and down the centuries...
Filmed in Ethiopia over a three-year period from 1983 to 1986, the programme chronicles how environmental destruction and mismanaged aid pushed a village and its people to the edge of extinction. Focuses on...
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