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Title: Why Women Count: Among the Numbers
Outline: Women in Sierra Leone have been maginalised over the years, but with the increase in women’s empowerment projects and associations women are now starting to have a voice - and make their presence felt.
Year: 2007
Duration: 5'
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Title: Why Women Count: Being Positive
Outline: Tamara Kotlyarevska is HIV positive, she was a heroin addict, but overcame her addiction and started the ‘Light of Hope Center’ to help other Ukrainians living with AIDS. The Center provides a range of support for AIDS sufferers
Year: 2007
Duration: 5'
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Title: Why Women Count: Bijana from 'Alcatraz'
Outline: 30,000 women are paid one or two Euros a day in Macedonia’s textile industry. Bijana Smileva spoke out against the prison-like conditions in the factories, she was fired from her job and is now suing for unpaid overtime and unfair dismissal
Year: 2007
Duration: 5'
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Title: Why Women Count: Born to be in Business
Outline: This film looks into why Latvia's women entrepreneurs are struggling to get businesses started and how this is starting to change.
Year: 2007
Duration: 5'
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Title: Why Women Count: Choosing Life
Outline: Lawyer Marie Vodickova started a network of 20 ‘safe houses’ across the Czech Republic catering for poor and disadvantaged mothers - evicted from their homes, or escaping violent relationships - who might otherwise be forced to give up their children
Year: 2007
Duration: 5'
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Title: Earth Report XIII: Clean Living part 1
Outline: A community-led public health programme in Bangladesh aims to eradicate open-air defecation and improve access to adequate sanitation.
Year: 2008
Duration: 22'
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Title: Earth Report XIII: Clean Living part 2
Outline: Investigates government action to improve access to adequate sanitation in Ethiopia..
Year: 2008
Duration: 22'
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Title: Earth Report XIII: Climate Fever
Outline: Earth Report investigates the impact of climate change on health.
Year: 2008
Duration: 22'
Title: Earth Report XIII: Doomsday Vault
Outline: The Norwegian government is building an underground seed bank inside a frozen Arctic mountain - the aim is to safeguard the world's agriculture from future catastrophes.
Year: 2008
Duration: 22'
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Title: Why Women Count: Enterprising Women
Outline: Women in Uganda are taking part in a new national mentoring scheme, pairing experienced business women with would-be entrepreneurs in Uganda, equipping them with new confidence and negotiating skills.
Year: 2007
Duration: 5'
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Title: Why Women Count: Finding Grace
Outline: Ma Grace Masuku is a community health worker with a mission. She works with young women in South Africa’s rural areas, passing on the traditional knowledge she learned from her grandmother to encourage entrepreneurship and self respect.
Year: 2007
Duration: 5'
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Title: Earth Report XIII: Forgotten Fruit
Outline: Explores the potential dangers and missed opportunities in relying on too few crop species to feed the world's population.
Year: 2008
Duration: 22'
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Title: Earth Report XIII: Gas Gas Gas
Outline: Millions of poor families in China are using biogas from animal and human waste for cooking and heating.
Year: 2008
Duration: 22'
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Title: Why Women Count: Geng Luifeng's New World
Outline: Geng Liufen is well educated, but after marrying her husband she moved to a small poor village called Zuji. She decided to help Zuji’s women get the education, training and health information they needed to transform their lives.
Year: 2007
Duration: 5'
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Title: Why Women Count: Girls Don't Cry
Outline: This film looks into the feminist movement in Lithuania. Feminism in Lithuania today is seen as outdated, aggressive, man-hating. Aiste Paskauskaite tells how feminism is working towards change.
Year: 2007
Duration: 5'
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Title: Earth Report XIII: Green Fish
Outline: Dutch shrimp trawlers work towards MSC accreditation and the long-term survival of their industry.
Year: 2008
Duration: 22'
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Title: Why Women Count: Hitting the Bottom
Outline: Looks at the ‘new poverty’ affecting young people in the Spanish region of Catalonia today who struggle with soaring rents, irregular work and unemployment.
Year: 2007
Duration: 5'
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Title: Why Women Count: Hope for Life
Outline: Nagima Plokhikh survived breast cancer and set up the Healthy Asia Foundation to help other women cancer sufferers in Kazakhstan survive by encouraging check ups and tests.
Year: 2007
Duration: 5'
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Title: Why Women Count: In the Eye of the Storm
Outline: Tells the story of Fadia Bazzeh, who risked her life to report and film in Lebanon during the war.
Year: 2007
Duration: 5
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Title: Earth Report XIII: In the Shadow of Kilimanjaro
Outline: Earth Report investigates the shortages, the conflicts and the plans to safeguard the health of the Pangani river basin in North Eastern Tanzania.
Year: 2008
Duration: 22'
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Title: Earth Report XIII: Is Green the New Black?
Outline: Green is the new black on the catwalks of the world but can eco-friendly clothing really make a difference?
Year: 2008
Duration: 22'
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Title: Earth Report XIII: The Ivory Poaching Wars
Outline: DNA analysis is being used to trace the origins of seized ivory, and to crack down on the poachers.
Year: 2008
Duration: 22'
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Title: Why Women Count: Lily Counts
Outline: Lily Thapa was a widow in her early thirties when she first came face-to-face with the brutality traditionally meted out to widows in Nepal, she has now formed a group called Women for Human Rights which campaigns against this.
Year: 2007
Duration: 5'
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Title: Why Women Count: Love of Indigo
Outline: Tells of Nike Okundaye, who trains women in pottery, weaving and dying, giving them slills to earn their own money and become independent.
Year: 2007
Duration: 5'
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Title: Why Women Count: Mama Bock
Outline: Ute bock is a former social worker who founded the 'Verein Ute Bock' charity in 2002. She helps asylum seekers and refugees get food and shelter when they arrive in Austria.
Year: 2007
Duration: 5'
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Title: Why Women Count: Mukhtiar Mai: The Struggle for Justice
Outline: Mukhtiar Mai was gang raped by a group of rival clan members, after her case was made public the Pakistani government paid her compensation which she used to start a school and women's welface centre.
Year: 2007
Duration: 5'
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Title: Why Women Count: Paris Parity
Outline: Former Socialist MP Françoise Gaspard and her colleagues campaigned for gender parity in the 1970s - in 1999 the parity principle was finally written in to the French Constitution, but there are still only 71 female MPs to 506 male MPs.
Year: 2007
Duration: 5'
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Title: Why Women Count: Picking up the Pieces
Outline: Tells the story of Comfort Adongo, who was forced into marriage at a young age, and how forced marriage in Ghana affects the lives of young women.
Year: 2007
Duration: 5'
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Title: Earth Report XIII: The Plight of the Humble Bee
Outline: Investigates how global crop movements have resulted in the spreading of bee diseases, and the consequent danger to the vital work of the bumble bee.
Year: 2008
Duration: 22'
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Title: Why Women Count: Queens of the Grassroots
Outline: Poojita Chowdhury’s investigation finds that while sexism and prejudice are still alive and well in Punjabi villages, many women are taking up the challenge to serve and make a difference.
Year: 2007
Duration: 5'
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Title: Why Women Count: 'Rosa'
Outline: Tells of Rosa Carlucci who has had her two sons taken away from her and put into the custody of her violent husband.
Year: 2007
Duration: 5'
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Title: Why Women Count: Seeking Happiness
Outline: Nuria Turiyeva campaigns against the disturbing new rise in bigamy in Uzbekistan.
Year: 2007
Duration: 5'
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Title: Why Women Count: Speaking Out
Outline: Tells the story of how the film 'Grbavica' has empowered rape victims during the bosnian war to overcome the stigma and taboos that stopped them from speaking out before.
Year: 2007
Duration: 5'
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Title: Why Women Count: The Power of her Voice
Outline: This is the story of how Njoki Ndung’u - just 18 women MPs who sit on Kenya’s 222 strong, male-dominated National Assembly - gained support for outlawing violence against women.
Year: 2007
Duration: 5'
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Title: Why Women Count: Untapped Resources
Outline: Musician Dudu Manhenga sings about violence and bad relationships, how women can overcome them and how Zimbabwe today needs more women decision makers in political positions.
Year: 2007
Duration: 5'
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Title: Why Women Count: Visions of a Woman
Outline: Dr. Nawal Al-Faouri, a local councillor and one of only seven women senators in Jordan set up her own school aimed at educating a new generation of young women about their rights.
Year: 2007
Duration: 5'
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Title: Earth Report XIII: Waste Not Waste
Outline: Investigates the potential of dry toilet systems to save water and make use of human waste.
Year: 2008
Duration: 22'
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Title: Why Women Count: Who is the Rwandan Woman
Outline: Tells the story of Sula Karuhimbi and Godelieve Mukasarasi who are two of the exceptional women leading efforts to rebuild Rwanda following the 1986 genocide.
Year: 2007
Duration: 5'
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Title: Why Women Count: Why Women Count Complete Compilation
Outline: 41 x 5 minute programmes made by broadcasters and producers in 41 countries, focusing on empowerment and the role that empowered women play in the social, economic and political development of their countries, communities and families.
Year: 2007
Duration: 41 x 5'
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Title: Why Women Count: Women of Krusha
Outline: Almost 70% of Krusha's male population is missing - taken away during the 1999 serbian offensive in Kosovo. Today, with training and support, Krusha’s women are courageously rebuilding their lives.
Year: 2007
Duration: 5'
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Title: Africa Calling
Outline: A series of eight short films carrying messages direct from ordinary Africans to the G8 leaders meeting at Gleneagles in July 2005.
Year: 2005
Duration: 8 x 2'
Language: English
Title: The Ageing Game
Outline: Once, families automatically provided care and support for elderly relatives. But today, as the four films in The Ageing Game show, the extended family system is breaking down.
Year: 1998
Duration: 4 x 15'
Language: English, French, Spanish
Title: Antarctica - A Hot Spot for Climate Change
Outline: Greenpeace's ship the Arctic Sunrise sets sail on a four week expedition to Antarctica looking for evidence of climate change.
Year: 1997
Duration: 24' 31"
Language: English, Spanish
Title: Back To The Future
Outline: A cartoon animation figure is the viewer's guide to the latest environmentally-friendly cooling agent.
Year: 1998
Duration: 20'
Language: English, Arabic, French, Spanish
Title: Beijing Features: Almost Like Fire
Outline: A look at how the lives of Filipino women have changed in recent years as they break with their cultural traditions.
Year: 1995
Duration: 20'
Language: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish
Title: Beijing Features: The Five-Minute Project
Outline: A video anthology of short films from the Cook Islands to Greece, each focusing on the empowerment of women.
Year: 1995
Duration: 10 x 5'
Language: English
Title: Beijing Features: Little By Little
Outline: Focuses on reproductive health as the key factor in both the empowerment of women and sustainable development.
Year: 1995
Duration: 25'
Language: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish
Title: Beijing Features: Rights Of Passage
Outline: Tells the very different stories of four teenage girls coming-of-age in India, Jamaica, Nicaragua and Burkina Faso.
Year: 1995
Duration: 27'
Language: English, Spanish
Title: Beijing Features: Science For Survival
Outline: Is there a meeting point between western science and indigenous knowledge and can it benefit poor communities?
Year: 1995
Duration: 50'
Language: English
Title: Beijing Shorts: The Alarm Rings Softly - Domestic Violence
Outline: In the Caribbean a new movement using drama and rap music has sprung up to combat widespread domestic violence.
Year: 1992
Duration: 10'
Language: English, French, Spanish
Title: Beijing Shorts: Dry Days In Dobbagunta
Outline: In the Indian state of Andra Pradesh, rural women attending a literacy class discovered they all suffered from their husband’s addiction to ‘arak’ - the local alcohol. So they launched a campaign to ban it.
Year: 1992
Duration: 10'
Language: English, French, Spanish
Title: Beijing Shorts: Footprints Of Sorrow: Widows Of Guatemala
Outline: In Guatemala, 45000 women widowed as a result of decades of political violence joined forces to campaign against human rights violations.
Year: 1992
Duration: 10'
Language: English, French, Spanish
Title: Beijing Shorts: A Healthy Start
Outline: South African society is undergoing momentous changes - amongst these, the debate over a new national health policy. Sandra Herrington's film follows a group of women fighting to ensure that their needs and experience are taken into account.
Year: 1992
Duration: 10'
Language: English, French, Spanish
Title: Beijing Shorts: Migrant Workers In Hong Kong
Outline: Anastasia Edwards' film looks at the lives of the Filipino 'amahs' who have taken the plunge to find work in the financial mecca of Hong Kong
Year: 1992
Duration: 10'
Language: English, French, Spanish
Title: Beijing Shorts: Teach A Woman How To Fish And...
Outline: In the overpopulated island of Fiji, women have long ensured their survival by subsistence fishing, involving long hours of work in precarious conditions. A new initiative is effectively ensuring a greater role in the decision-making process.
Year: 1992
Duration: 10'
Language: English, French, Spanish
Title: Beijing Spots
Outline: A series of 28 one-minute spots presenting a snap-shot of gender, power and ownership around the world
Year: 1995
Duration: 28 x 1'
Language: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish
Title: Biodiversity: A Chance For Salvation
Outline: An emotional treatment of the interdependence of all species.
Year: 1995
Duration: 30'
Language: English
Title: Breaking The Cycle
Outline: Looks at the effects of poverty - and efforts to counter them - in Scotland, Kenya, Guatemala, Guinea Bissau and the USA
Year: 1997
Duration: 25' 44"
Language: English
Title: Bruno Bozzetto Spots
Outline: Sharp, funny animated morality tales designed to remind audiences that the earth’s resources are far from infinite.
Year: 1996
Duration: 16 x 1'
Language: English
Title: Building Bridges
Outline: How a team of Chinese and British engineers overcame their cultural differences to construct China's longest suspension bridge.
Year: 2002
Duration: 19'
Language: English
Title: Can Condoms Kill?
Outline: Investigates claims by the Catholic church that condoms pose a health risk and do not protect against HIV/AIDS.
Year: 2004
Duration: 49'
Language: English
Title: Caviar
Outline: Half a century of abuse of the Volga River threatens the sturgeon with extinction.
Year: 1992
Duration: 52’
Language: English
Title: Cholera: The Unnecessary Disease
Outline: With its focus on the plight of communities in Zambia, this film explains how cholera is spread and describes effective measures for prevention and treatment.
Year: 1993
Duration: 32'/10'
Language: English
Title: Climate Change: Nature’s Revenge
Outline: Made to mark World Environment Day 1992, this film examines the costs to the planet of the vicious cycle of developing country debt and unsustainable development.
Year: 1991
Duration: 12'
Language: English
Title: Coral Triangle
Outline: Assesses the pressures put on coral, the Philippines' most valuable resource, by a population of 58 million.
Year: 1988
Duration: 47'
Language: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish
Title: The Cow Jumped Over The Moon
Outline: To the nomadic Fulani people of West Africa, cattle define life, and the constant quest for pasture dominates their existence. Now one of the most sophisticated technological organisations in the world, NASA is helping them in their quest.
Year: 1999
Duration: 26'
Language: English
Title: Dead Mums Don't Cry
Outline: Assesses progress on achieving the MDG of cutting maternal mortality by 75% by 2015, visiting Chad and Honduras.
Year: 2005
Duration: 49'
Language: English
Title: Decade Of Destruction: Mountains Of Gold
Outline: The story of the huge, state iron ore mine in the Caracas mountains and how it has spawned a whole new industry.
Year: 1988
Duration: 52'
Title: Developing Stories I: And The Dish Ran Away With The Spoon
Outline: A wry look at how foreign programming - made almost exclusively in the North - is polluting the Caribbean airwaves.
Year: 1992
Duration: 50’
Language: English, French, Spanish
Title: Developing Stories I: Life And Debt
Outline: The tortuous links between Brazil’s debt, the devastation of its rainforest and the killing of street kids in Rio de Janeiro
Year: 1992
Duration: 47'
Language: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish
Title: Developing Stories I: Lucia
Outline: A powerful drama from a screenplay by the late, acclaimed Filipino director which chronicles the struggle of a Filipino family from a fishing community, as external factors drive them to destitution in the slums of Manila.
Year: 1992
Duration: 90’ or 50’
Language: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish
Title: Developing Stories I: Rabi
Outline: A modern day fable African fable from Burkina Faso which explores the relationships between a boy and his pet tortoise and his own community.
Year: 1992
Duration: 60’
Language: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish
Title: Developing Stories I: Seeds Of Plenty, Seeds Of Sorrow
Outline: Explores what influence the 1960's Green Revolution has had on the social structure and ecologies of the 3rd World.
Year: 1992
Duration: 52’
Language: English, French, Spanish
Title: Developing Stories I: Suspended Dreams
Outline: The appalling impact of modern warfare on the people and their environment is assessed through the lives of four very different Lebanese worldwide.
Year: 1992
Duration: 50’
Language: English, French, Spanish
Title: Developing Stories II: Desounen - Dialogue With Death
Outline: This film takes the form of a journey across the Caribbean island of Haiti encountering a population battered but unbowed by years of crushing poverty, political repression and environmental destitution.
Year: 1994
Duration: 50’
Language: English, French
Title: Developing Stories II: Legacy Of Malthus
Outline: Draws parallels between the 19th century evictions of Scottish crofters and peasant farmers in India today, to challenge the accepted wisdom that population causes poverty and environmental destruction.
Year: 1994
Duration: 50’
Language: English, French
Title: Developing Stories II: Tale Of The Three Lost Jewels
Outline: A magical love story between two adolescents in the Gaza Strip, this revelatory drama looks at childhood in a war zone.
Year: 1994
Duration: 50’
Language: English, French
Title: Developing Stories II: The Tree Of Our Forefathers
Outline: A moving documentary following Alexandre Ferrao and his extended family on their way home, 10 years after they fled the civil war in Mozambique to seek asylum in Malawi.
Year: 1994
Duration: 53'
Language: English, French
Title: Earth Report I: Afghanistan: Tanks To Trowels
Outline: In Afghanistan small forges that had been churning out armaments during years of war are now making agricultural tools from scrapped weapons.
Year: 1996
Duration: 5'
Language: English
Title: Earth Report I: Armenia: Nuclear Alert
Outline: With no hard currency to buy fossil fuels, with the land stripped bare of trees for firewood, Armenia says it has no alternative but to take the risk of re-activating an unsafe nuclear power plant - another Chernoble disaster in the making?
Year: 1996
Duration: 5'
Language: English
Title: Earth Report I: Australia: Aliens In Kakadu
Outline: Cane toads and other exotics are poised to invade Kakadu National Park.
Year: 1996
Duration: 5'
Language: English
Title: Earth Report I: Australia: Green Olympics
Outline: Australia is finding problems in making sure the 2000 Olympics lives up to its "green" billling.
Year: 1996
Duration: 5'
Language: English
Title: Earth Report I: Bhutan : Best Of Both Worlds
Outline: In the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan, traditional medicine enjoys a status equal to that of modern medicine. Bhutanese patients now have access to both systems, and hospitals and clinics dispense herbal as well as modern medicines.
Year: 1996
Duration: 5'
Language: English
Title: Earth Report I: Biodiversity: Wealth Or Wilderness
Outline: About the value of plant genetic resources and traditional agriculture to sustainable agriculture and food production.
Year: 1996
Duration: 5'
Language: English
Title: Earth Report I: Black Sea: Death Or Reprieve?
Outline: Documents the legacy of decades of uncontrolled pollution and over-fishing. Covers regional Programme underway to rehabilitate the Sea.
Year: 1996
Duration: 5'
Language: English, Spanish
Title: Earth Report I: Bosnia: Water In War
Outline: Contaminated water is a bigger killer in times of strife than weapons. Focuses on efforts to restore safe water supply in Bosnia.
Year: 1996
Duration: 5'
Language: English, Spanish
Title: Earth Report I: Botswana: Welcome The Great White Hunter
Outline: In Botswana, a community game-guard scheme is successfully involving local people in controlled hunting.
Year: 1996
Duration: 5'
Language: English, Spanish
Title: Earth Report I: Children's Rights Features
Outline: 11 features on children's rights, with stories from West Africa, Hong Kong, Mongolia, India, Rwanda, Costa Rica, the USA and Egypt.
Year: 1997
Duration: 9 x 6'
Language: English
Title: Earth Report I: China: Defeating The Desert
Outline: Defying the critics, China is succeeding in mobilising communities to roll back the desert.
Year: 1996
Duration: 5'
Language: English
Title: Earth Report I: Cities: Feeling The Heat
Outline: It is estimated that by the year 2000 more tha nhalf the world's population will be city dwellers. Meteorologists are concerned about the implications this will have for the already dangerous levels of urban pollution, and for global warming.
Year: 1996
Duration: 5'
Language: English
Title: Earth Report I: Colombia: A Dynamite Issue
Outline: The increasing frequency and intensity of hurricanes in the Caribbean is destroying large areas of coral reef, with severe consequences for tourism, fishing and marine biodiversity.
Year: 1996
Duration: 5'
Language: English, Spanish
Title: Earth Report I: Colombia: Coca For Trees
Outline: Investigation into the environmental effects of blanket spraying of coca fields with banned pesticides.
Year: 1996
Duration: 5'
Language: English, Spanish
Title: Earth Report I: Estonia: A New Future
Outline: Conservation-minded Estonians have a difficult choice to make deciding how much of Estonia's pristine coastal marshes should be protected and how much should be sacrificed to the industrial development needed to revive the economy.
Year: 1996
Duration: 5'
Language: English, Spanish
Title: Earth Report I: Estonia: After The Revolution
Outline: A cement factory belches clouds of cement dust over the town of Kunda in Estonia, a country that is paying for years of environmental neglect under the former Soviet Union. Now it faces the monumental task of cleaning up without job loss.
Year: 1996
Duration: 5'
Language: English
Title: Earth Report I: Fate Of The Forest
Outline: An over-all look at the damage and in some cases benefits which have arisen from deforestation in the Tropics.
Year: 1996
Duration: 30'
Language: English
Title: Earth Report I: Food for Thought
Outline: Looks at some of the key issues considered by the world's governments in Rome at the 1996 World Food Summit; land reform in Nepal, revival of traditional farming in Zimbabwe; monsoon harvesting in India.
Year: 1996
Duration: 26'
Language: English
Title: Earth Report I: Guatemala - Stealing the Rainforest
Outline: The Maya Biosphere reserve is coming under pressure from logging companies. Local NGOs are mounting a campaign to save the reserve before it's too late.
Year: 1996
Duration: 5'
Language: English
Title: Earth Report I: Guatemala: Investing in Health
Outline: This story shows how an investment in the health-care of migrant workers puts plantation owners and their labourers in a "win-win" situation.
Year: 1996
Duration: 5'
Language: English, Spanish
Title: Earth Report I: Guinea Bissau: Getting Healthier
Outline: The image most outsiders have of West Africa is that "nothing works". The small state of Guinea Bissau has managed to immunise a greater percentage of the population than some US cities.
Year: 1996
Duration: 5'
Language: English
Title: Earth Report I: Guinea Bissau: Wetland Patrol
Outline: Story on the efforts to conserve the RAMSAR wetland site in Guinea Bissau.
Year: 1996
Duration: 5'
Language: English
Title: Earth Report I: Guyana: Timber To Pay Off Debt
Outline: About the exploitation by Asian timber companies of the tropical rainforest in Guyana and Suriname. Guyana's President says his country has to agree to tiimber concessions to pay off debt.
Year: 1996
Duration: 5'
Language: English, Spanish
Title: Earth Report I: Haiti: Rubbish Crisis
Outline: Democracy may have come to Haiti,but the Caribbean nation is divorced from the economic up-turn in the region. The expected flow of development assistance has not happened,with an almost complete breakdown of infra-structure services in the capital
Year: 1996
Duration: 5'
Language: English, Spanish
Title: Earth Report I: Home Sweet Home
Outline: A Mexican and a Tunisian reveal the plight of reluctant environmental refugees, driven to the West against their will.
Year: 1996
Duration: 26'
Language: English
Title: Earth Report I: India: Bandits And Ravines
Outline: The ravines of India's Chambal Valley are hide-outs for the bandits of the region. Links are made between dacoitry and impoverishment of the region through exhaustion of the land. A grassroots conservation project shows the way forward.
Year: 1996
Duration: 5'
Language: English, Spanish
Title: Earth Report I: India: Energy From Waste
Outline: Biogas is no longer considered the poor man's fuel in India. In Madras, factories like Cadbury's use it as a cheaper, more reliable source of energy than the National Grid.
Year: 1996
Duration: 5'
Language: English, Spanish
Title: Earth Report I: Indonesia: Bamboo Boom
Outline: The fastest growing plant on earth is now being harvested sustainably and providing a booming economy on the island of Flores in Indonesia.
Year: 1996
Duration: 5'
Language: English
Title: Earth Report I: Indonesia: Eco Labelling
Outline: How can the environmentally-conscious consumer be confident that tropical hardwood is harvested sustainably? In Indonesia, a pioneering scheme is setting a precedent for tough criteria.
Year: 1996
Duration: 5'
Language: English, Spanish
Title: Earth Report I: Japan : Tee'd Off
Outline: The leisure industry is having a harmful impact on the ecology of Japan. Golf courses require huge quantities of freshwater and herbicides. Local groups and farmers in Japan fight the expansion of golf courses into agricultural land.
Year: 1996
Duration: 5'
Language: English
Title: Earth Report I: Kazakhstan: The Sea That Was
Outline: The Aral Sea in Kazakhstan is included on most maps of the world - it shouldn't as it has all but disappeared. This report covers the disastrous legacy of mismanagement inherited from the Soviet system.
Year: 1996
Duration: 5'
Language: English
Title: Earth Report I: Kenya: Guardians Of Africa
Outline: Overgrazing by cattle is leading to serious land degradation in Kenya. The tsetse fly (vector of sleeping sickness in cattle and humans ) helps protect bushland and catchment areas from overgrazing.
Year: 1996
Duration: 5'
Language: English
Title: Earth Report I: Kenya: TV As Contraception
Outline: Kenya's rate of population increase has begaun to slow - not through coercion but by public education. Video vans tour the rural areas with family planning and AIDS education exhibits.
Year: 1996
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