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Shows the widespread suffering due to endemic disease, using as examples the tropical diseases malaria, filariasis and trachoma. The sources of the diseases and the measures used to eliminate them, both...
Shows how Indian peasants are forming co-operatives, and working for the common good, building dams for irrigation, introducing new farming methods, and reducing the power of the money lenders.
The commune system in China and how it works countrywide.
Compares daily work of two women in Abijan. Albertine, the mother of a family, lives in Adjamés neighbourhood. Her work consists of preparing and selling ‘achéké' (manioc semolina). Her rather...
Illustrates the changes brought about recently and violently through contact with the outside world, in the culture and society of the Cuiva Indians, hunter-gatherers in Colombia. The contrasting position of...
The problems of the nomadic peasants of north-eastern Brazil, showing a resettlement scheme and a land reclamation scheme.
President Julius Nyerere explains how the emphasis is on rural development, which must take priority over urban growth, and that the elite must make sacrifices. Co-operative villages are shown, where...
Documentary examining the conflicts between the coming of modernization and the traditional culture of a small Mexican village in the early years of the 20th century. Alexander Hammid, famous for his...
A compilation of three short films.
Three women fairtrade coffee producers from the community of Los Alpes, northern Nicaragua, describe with great pride their families, their farms and the difference that fairtrade has made to their lives.
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