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Examines why many of the rural population in the Third World face a perpetual struggle to provide enough food, due partly to the an adverse climate and unsuitable agricultural land. The problem is compounded...
Rio de Janeiro has the reputation of being the world’s most glamorous city, but nine million people who live there are subject to infectious diseases and malnutrition. Death rates are high and life...
The oil palm is grown as a plantation crop in West Africa, the Far East and tropical America. Examines three developments in oil palm technology which have made an important contribution to agricultural...
Documents the rapid deforestation of Africa and analyses various solutions such as shifting to solar energy and improving traditional stores. Shot in Niger, Mali, Sengal and Nigeria, it shows how people are...
Shows how migrants from Sakaltutan have travelled further afield in search of prosperity - to other Turkish cities, to the Middle East and to Germany (e.g. Pforzheim) from about 1963. They live frugally,...
In Turkey, as in many developing countries, rural migrants come to the big cities where they build their own homes, often illegally. Considers the problem this migration causes and seeks to answer questions...
Explores the lives of some of the inhabitants of Jodhan in the middle of Punjab’s rich wheatland, an area which has undergone rapid changes in the last 15 years. Three families with very different incomes...
Discusses the violence of relations between landlords and farm workers in the Begusarai district of Bihar, a backward and feudal area where low pay, landlessness and debt bondage are still common among...
Discusses the differences between the claims made about the green revolution and the effects as experienced by people in Ludhiana district, one of India’s most prosperous areas.
Investigates the effects of changes in agriculture in a backward state like Bihar. With inequality and differential access to resources, how have various social groups been affected? Rich farmers, poor...
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