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Shows the effects of mining in the rain forest. Davi Yanomami makes the first-ever visit by a Yanomami spokesperson to Europe, to appeal for acknowledgement of Yonomami land rights. He also collects the...
Documents the destruction of parts of the South American rainforest as the land is opened up by new roads and the forest is cleared to make way for coffee plantations and cattle ranches. As the settlers move...
In the late 1960s the Kenyan government decided to explore the possibilities of sugar production in an area of north-west Kenya, near the town of Mumias. Looks at the historical background to the scheme, and...
1: Studies the high level of hunger and malnutrition in Sudan. 2: Looks at the relationship between the Western farmer and the peasants of the Third World and examines how decisions made in the US and Europe...
Documents the effects of World Bank-funded projects on the environment and tribal peoples worldwide. These projects include the Poloroeste project in South America (building a road through a Brazilian rain...
Looks at Rio de Janeiro and San Paulo to find out how rapid industrialisation has affected Brazilian society. Discusses the social and spatial impact of industrialisation, the role of women in the economy,...
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...
Looks at the social nature of natural resources, in this case the tin industry in Malaysia. The British introduced commercial tin production to Malaysia in the 19th century, but even though other industries...
In Nepal, the Central American rain forests of Costa Rica and in Nigeria, slash-and-burn farming methods are showing long-term harmful effects. Where trees have been cleared the top soil becomes eroded and...
Relates the daily battle for survival of the four million slum dwellers of Bombay, who constitute half of the city’s population. They are the workforce of Bombay: the industrial labour, the construction...
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