Hope in a Changing Climate
Earth Report
An ambitious project is reviving severely degraded land in China's Loess Plateau.
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Earth Report
An ambitious project is reviving severely degraded land in China's Loess Plateau.
Earth Report
Reports from the coastal communities in South East Asia who are battling sinking land and rising seas.
Life on the Edge (series 11)
Months before the Egyptian uprising, this film explained some of the issues behind it -- young people without jobs or hope, and the desperate measures the government was taking to ease their plight.
Captures the social history of women in China this century through the stories of 4 generations of women in one family. (1995)
BBC World Debate
A panel of world experts explore the growing global housing shortage and possible solutions.
Hands On
Around the world 200 million people depend on fish, directly or indirectly, for food and employment. But by one estimate, 70 percent of world fish stocks are now in urgent need of management to ensure their long-term survival.
How environmental mismanagement on land is becoming a grave threat to our seas.
The UN Environment Programme has identified 150 'dead zones' in the world's oceans, where marine life cannot exist due to lack of oxygen.
Focuses on nomadic herders in Ethiopia and their efforts to live their traditional lifestyle in a changing environment.
An analysis of Kenya's Lake Baringo revitalisation project.
The other side of the GM food debate - new crops developed to counter hunger in Africa.
Earth Report travels down the river to uncover the social and environmental problems facing the countries of the Nile basin, and to see what hope there is on the horizon.
After over ten years Earth Report returns to Ethiopia to search for Aklook. 'Hunger for Land' is an intimate story that reveals why poor Africans cannot feed their growing families.
The story of three indigenous people filming their stories how the extraction of the world's natural resources is changing their life out of all recognition. (1998)
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. (1996)
Life (series 4)
This programme explores changes in two Indian states that have succeeded in giving previously powerless people some control over their lives.
Life (series 4)
Focuses on the development of reproductive rights since the Cairo conference in 1994.
Life (series 4)
Life visits the valleys of Wales, where the coal and steel industries have left a legacy of ill health and unemployment.
Life II
Buddhist monks are now spearheading a campaign to persuade Cambodians to give up tobacco, in a country with one of the highest rates of smoking in the world and life expectancy of only 54 years.
Life on the Edge (series 10)
In aspiring to the presidency of war-torn Liberia, many fear ex-footballer is out of his depth. ‘How to Become a President’ goes on the road to canvass the views of Liberians themselves.