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Describes research by the Overseas Division of the Building Research Establishment to design houses suitable for low-income families in developing countries that will be strong enough to resist earthquakes...
Describes a rural development project in Kenya, based on self-reliance, which illustrates the interrelationships between health care, agricultural improvement and the application of appropriate technology.
Shows the work of the Amsha Appropriate Technology Project in Tanzania in promoting rural self-reliance and enabling villagers to improve their environment. Projects shown include making new houses for...
Looks at the contrasts in Kenya between the tourist image and the impoverished lives of the country’s inhabitants. A wealthy minority own much of the countryside and grow cash crops to sell to the...
Reports on the Brong-Ahafo Rural Integrated Development Programme (BARIDEP) in central Ghana showing how people, drawing on their own resources and traditions, work together with both governmental and...
Concerns a worker-controlled banana co-operative in Honduras and the opposition it encountered from a multi-national corporation which had a monopoly of the country’s banana industry. The corporation was...
The small island of Yap was part of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, known as Micronesia, a possession given to the United States as a ‘strategic trust’ after World War II. Traditional culture...
Looks at world population figures and states that each country must be looked at individually to see what the problems are. Problems facing those teaching birth control in developing countries are discussed.
About women in Latin America and the cultural values that shape their lives - image and reality - the models of society and the facts of poverty and violence. Focuses on three adolescent girls in a...
Shows the election campaign, election day and the formation of a government in 1977 in Papua New Guinea, the first after the country became independent of Australia in 1975. The dominant impression is one of...
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