Lease of Life
Earth Report
A new scheme to reforest barren hillsides in Nepal and give poor farmers a new lease of life.
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Law of the Jungle
The political battle over La Macarena, Colombia's most important wildlife reserve, as political and economic turmoil force landless peasants to take up residence in the protected area. (1989)
Love Your Town Like Your Shamba
Showcases the work of the Green Towns environmental videos in Kenya, which encourage community participation. (1995)
Life In Slow Motion
Jimi Bello, a Nigerian bureaucrat, attends an energy conference in Ghana, aiming to secure business in Ghana’s oil sector. After meeting a prostitute called Afua and witnessing the poor health of the children in her village, Jimi is compelled to re-evaluate his agenda and also come to terms with the loss of his own child.
Last Pockets Of Paradise
Efforts to protect the last unspoilt areas of the Mediterranean coastline.
Little Geek
In this Earth Report we hitch a ride into the abyss to find a world that we know almost nothing about. Kilometres below the ocean surface there may be as many as five million species as yet unknown to science. And the way to find them is with an ROV or Remotely Operated Vehicle.
Legacy of Malthus
Developing Stories
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. (1994)
Life and Debt
Developing Stories
The tortuous links between Brazil’s debt, the devastation of its rainforest and the killing of street kids in Rio de Janeiro. (1992)
Lucia
Developing Stories
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. (1992)
Last Summit 2
Earth Report returns to Johannesburg to assess the successes of the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development.
Land of the Rising Water
Water supply and flood control in Japan.
Land Rites
This programme in the Earth Report City Specials season, looks at how land titles may or may not create security for the urban poor.
Line in the Sand
This Earth Report travels to Alashan to investigate why the desert is growing by 1000 square kilometres a year, and to see what the Chinese authorities and development agencies are doing to draw a line in the sand.
Lifting the Lid
Hands On
Each of the six billion people in the world produces 550 litres of excreta a year, and the world's waste is going to waste. This Hands On programme lifts the lid on the world's toilets.
Living With Disaster
This half-hour documentary is the antidote to TV's usual treatment of disasters like typhoons, flooding and earthquakes. It finds that local communities have developed their own ways of avoiding becoming the helpless victims of disaster. (1996)
Looking For My Gypsy Roots
Life on the Edge (series 6)
Explores the place of the Roma within the wider globalised world, as reflected in the experiences of a Hungarian film maker looking for his family.
Listen to the Kids
Life (series 4)
Life reports on a Unicef initiative to involve children in decisions that affect, not only their own futures - but those of their families and communities.
Lines in the Dust
Life II
The Reflect method of community learning and decision-making at work in Ghana and India.
Lost Generations
Life I
This episode of 'Life' looks at the impact of globalisation on the number of babies born with low birth weight in India, and at how the cycle of malnourishment may continue for future generations.
Looting the Seas
Life on the Edge III
Exposes corruption and overfishing which has brought the bluefin tuna to the point of extinction.