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  1. 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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  2. Don’t Panic: How to End Poverty in 15 Years (2015)

    Subject
    Development studies; Social sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £20

    Television documentary. In the week the United Nations presented its new goals for global development, the programme looks at the number one goal for the world: eradicating extreme poverty - the condition...

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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. Koyaanisqatsi and Powaqqatsi (2014)

    Subject
    Development studies; Environmental science; Media studies; Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 179 minutes), £29.99 (inclusive)

    Two of the three films from the Qatsi trilogy. They are cinematic essays on the impact of technological progress on the earth and its peoples, set to scores by Philip Glass. The photographic effects,...

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  6. 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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  7. Girl Rising (2014)

    Director
    Richard Robbins
    Subject
    Development studies; Education; Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 103 minutes), £13.99

    This film follows nine girls from Haiti, Nepal, Ethiopia, India, Egypt, Peru, Cambodia, Sierra Leone, and Afghanistan on their journey to education. the girls face arranged marriages, child slavery and other...

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  8. F*ck for Forest (2013)

    Director
    Michael Marczak
    Subject
    Development studies; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £9.99

    Berlin’s "Fuck For Forest" is one of the world’s most bizarre charities. Based on the idea that sex can save the world, the NGO raises money for their environmental cause by selling home-made erotic...

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  9. Solar Mamas: Why Poverty? (2013)

    Director
    Mona Eldaief; Jehane Noujam
    Subject
    Development studies; Women’s studies

    Are women better at getting out of poverty than men? This documentary, produced by the Why Poverty multimedia project, tells the story of Rafea, a middle-aged woman from a poor community, who is selected to...

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  10. 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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