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| Brazil: From coal to crops |
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Brazil is considered to be the largest producer of charcoal in the world. And in the North East of the country, much of the cutting down of trees to produce this charcoal is illegal. The effect on the environment is devastating. In fact, this area has the fifth highest rate of deforestation in the country. This is the story of how the discovery of ground water helped one community moved from coal production to crop production - turning a dry barren area into a green oasis. |
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| Brazil: living with the land | ||
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The North-East of Brazil is the most densely populated semi-arid region in the world. For generations, farmers have resorted to excessive use of chemicals and slash and burn agriculture, stripping the soil of nutrients. Now farmers like Irupuan Gomes are trying something new. He is using bush management techniques to rehabilitate the natural ecosystem. Not only is the environment healthier -- but so are his profits. |
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| Bangladesh: the coming storm |
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Eighty per cent of Bangladesh lies on a floodplain less than 5 metres above sea level. As sea levels rise and seasonal storms become more severe, millions of farmers living along the country's southern coast could lose their land and livelihoods, putting the entire country's food security at risk. Fighting against time, six branches of government and international donors work together to help farmers adapt. |
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| Pakistan: credit where credit is due |
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In the mountainous terrain of Azad Jammu and Kashmir in Pakistan, it isn't easy to start a small business. But when a community pools their money together and manages their own micro-credit loans, there are astonishing results. These three stories show how community credit allows poor people to lift each other out of poverty. |
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| Ivory Coast: Seeds for Change | ||
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After 10 years of civil war, women farmers in Ivory Coast are fighting poverty and preserving peace by growing high-quality rice seeds. This pest-resistant breed of rice not only doubles their yields and profits - but it also gives them greater independence. |
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| Mali: Reversing the Exodus | ||
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In Mali's rural areas, most young people leave the villages to try and find work in the cities. This is known as "the exodus" and it has a devastating effect on the social fabric of remote areas. The elderly and the children remain, struggling to produce enough food. But now young people like Diallo Haroun are returning to their villages because of a new project which offers training and creates employment opportunities. |
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| Ghana: Going Local | ||
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Ghana currently spends over $1 billion on food imports, making it highly susceptible to price hikes. One way to prevent this, is to invest in local entrepreneurs like Janet Gyimah-Kessie. She has a large-scale cassava processing operation which not only increases local food production, but also creates employment and a market for other local cassava producers. |
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Benin's lakes and wetlands have been depleted of fish due to overfishing and destruction of mangroves and natural habitats. Now these lakes are being rehabilitated and fishermen and fish-sellers are finding alternative ways to make a living. |
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The people from the remote Diamer District in northern Pakistan have always been conservative, religious and suspicious of outsiders. A few years ago, there was only 9% literacy, women couldn't earn their own incomes and people were open to extremist ideas. Now all that has changed. Although it was initially violently resisted, a poverty alleviation project initiated by the UN's International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), has now changed people's attitudes, making them resist extremist ideologies. |
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| Ethiopia: Droughtwatch | ||
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Hassan Adile is no stranger to drought. As one of 12 million pastoralists in Ethiopia, he travels great distances to find grazing land and water for his livestock. Now he has a new role. He has recently been trained to watch for warning signs of drought. Supported by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), it is hoped that such investments will help avert a future humanitarian crisis like the current drought in the Horn of Africa. |
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| Mongolia: Learning in motion | ||
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Mobile kindergartens head out onto the Mongolian plateau, giving nomadic children their first taste of organized learning. |
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| Dream Weaver | 11-IFT-05 |
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Poor Guatemalan weavers team up with industrial designers to create top-selling textiles for export. |
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| Egypt: young and jobless | 11-IFT-04 |
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Egypt dominated the headlines at the beginning of the year when an unprecedented display of people power toppled 30 years of autocratic rule. But will the elections planned for later in the year solve Egypt’s problems? The underlying issue of youth unemployment - ; which affects the whole Arab region |
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| Hungry Planet episode 15 | ||
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In this Episode of Hungry Planet: Rising sea levels and severe storms threaten millions of farmers living along Bangladesh’s southern coast, increasingly unpredictable weather patterns in Chad fuel hunger and, in Ethiopia, distribution of high yield root and tuber varieties help farmers increase production in times of drought. |
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| Hungry Planet episode 15 - RIO+20 special report |
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In this Episode of Hungry Planet: Rising sea levels and severe storms threaten millions of farmers living along Bangladesh’s southern coast, increasingly unpredictable weather patterns in Chad fuel hunger and, in Ethiopia, distribution of high yield root and tuber varieties help farmers increase production in times of drought. |
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| Hungry Planet episode 14 |
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A particularly challenging winter in the Mazar-I-Sharif region of northern Afghanistan requires a quick response. Improving food security in Bangladesh is one of the most difficult tasks of the Millennium Development Goals. In Pakistani Kashmir, a community pools their money together and manages their own micro-credit loans to lift each other out of poverty. |
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| Hungry Planet episode 13 | ||
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Farmers in Croatia use nuclear technology to tackle the Mediterranean fruit fly pest. |
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| Hungry Planet episode 12 | ||
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Job creation in rural areas offers hope for Mali youth. Problems in accessing food from outside the country spell shortages for the people of South Sudan. A project offering agriculture advice to three hundred farmers in Ethiopia enjoys a domino effect as thousands more get involved.
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| Hungry Planet episode 11 | ||
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Turning arid desert into productive farmland helps ward off hunger in drought-prone Niger. Fishermen and fish sellers in Benin discover alternative ways of earning a living that are good for them and the fishery. Mountain gorillas in Rwanda, the original "gorillas in the mist," are under greater threat due to climate change. Find out what be done to protect them. |
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| Hungry Planet episode 10 |
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In this Episode, herders in Mongolia work together to stop illegal logging and deforestation; in a remote corner of Pakistan, economic development helps a conservative community push out extremist ideas; drought-stricken pastoralists seek refuge and food assistance in the village of Docol in central Somalia. |
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| Hungry Planet Episode 9 | ||
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In this Episode: War-weary Somali gather at a project to collect rubbish in return for payment in food. A look at what causes food price volatility in many parts of the world. And, in Ethiopia, pastoralists are trained to watch for warning signs of drought to avert future humanitarian crisis. |
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| Hungry Planet Episode 8 | ||
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The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) faces serious food shortages after harsh winter and flooding led to failed harvests. Developing small and medium size agricultural businesses helps reverse the flow of migration from Moldova 20 years after the fall of the Soviet Union. In Senegal, planting and managing Acacia forests helps combat desertification while providing life-changing benefits to local communities. |
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| Hungry Planet Episode 7 | ||
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In this Episode of Hungry Planet: famine in the Horn of Africa continues to push thousands of desperate Somalis into the Dadaab refugee Camp in Kenya; an innovative teaching method known as farmer fields schools is lifting thousands out of poverty on the island of Zanzibar; a year after flooding in Pakistan destroyed crops and homes millions of people are rebuilding their life again. |
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| Hungry Planet Episode 6 | 11-IFT-06 |
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In this episode of Hungry Planet, legendary Italian striker Roberto Baggio witnesses the devastation of climate change on crops in the Peruvian Andes, Canadian actor and comedian Jim Carrey visits a school in Haiti and pledges meals for the entire school year, and mobile kindergartens head out onto the Mongolian plateau, giving nomadic children their first taste of organized learning. |
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| Hungry Planet Episode 5 | 11-IFT-05 |
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In this episode of Hungry Planet we go to Rwanda, where tea fields are helping to rebuild a country. We shop in the markets of Cambodia, Pakistan and Egypt to see how much a dollar is really worth. Finally we go to Sri Lanka where cattle here were among the last in the world to undergo blood testing under FAO's Global Rinderpest Eradication Programme. |
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| Hungry Planet Episode 4 | 11-IFT-04 |
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In this episode of Hungry Planet, empowering women in the Philippines to rebuild their community; combatting high food prices with a project to grow your own food in Pakistan and meet some successful women entrepreneurs from Guatemala using traditional methods to create modern designs. |
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| Hungry Planet Episode 3 | 11-IFT-03 |
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In the third episode of Hungry Planet, legendary ex-Barcelona striker Hristo Stoichkov joins other soccer greats in visiting a community garden project for victims of the 2009 flooding in Burkina Faso; a social experiment in Egypt helps the urban unemployed reclaim desert land and become farmers; and a cash vouchers project in Hebron helps Palestinian families cope with rising food prices. |
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| Hungry Planet Episode 2 | 11-IFT-02 |
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In the latest episode of Hungry Planet: a woman in Ghana breaks into the food processing business; a typhoon victim in Manila gets help via text message; and a project in the Philippines helps protect forests for future generations. |
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| One story | 10-IFT-01 |
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Just one story to represent over 1.4 billion poor rural people who live on less than $1.25 a day. This is the story of Séraphine and her daughter Maria who live in rural Madagascar. They struggle daily to keep food on the table and believe that the only real future Maria can have is far away from home. Their story is unique yet ever so common in rural poor areas, according to the Rural Poverty Report 2011 prepared by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). It raises a critical question -- with the world's future food needs expected to increase by 70% by the year 2050 and with more and more people leaving rural areas to live in cities, who will be left to farm? |
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| Hungry Planet Episode 1 | 10-IFT-10 |
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One billion. That's the number of hungry people worldwide. The effects are heartbreaking. The causes myriad. Solutions are needed now to feed future generations. In this series, the UN 's three food agencies - FAO, WFP and IFAD - take us around the globe in search of answers to some of the most pressing questions we face today. |
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| The Business of Food : Benin | ||
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On television screens and newspaper front pages around the world, the stories out of Africa are often filled with doom and gloom. And while the reality of life for many Africans is often difficult, there are success stories to share and inspire others. This 13-part televsion series, produced in cooperation with IFAD, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and Dev.tv, presents just a few. |
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| The Business of Food : Burundi | ||
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On television screens and newspaper front pages around the world, the stories out of Africa are often filled with doom and gloom. And while the reality of life for many Africans is often difficult, there are success stories to share and inspire others. This 13-part televsion series, produced in cooperation with IFAD, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and Dev.tv, presents just a few. |
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| The Business of Food : Ghana | ||
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On television screens and newspaper front pages around the world, the stories out of Africa are often filled with doom and gloom. And while the reality of life for many Africans is often difficult, there are success stories to share and inspire others. This 13-part televsion series, produced in cooperation with IFAD, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and Dev.tv, presents just a few. |
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| The Business of Food :
Kenya - A matter of tics |
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On television screens and newspaper front pages around the world, the stories out of Africa are often filled with doom and gloom. And while the reality of life for many Africans is often difficult, there are success stories to share and inspire others. This 13-part televsion series, produced in cooperation with IFAD, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and Dev.tv, presents just a few. |
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| The Business of Food :
Kenya - A voracious pest |
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On television screens and newspaper front pages around the world, the stories out of Africa are often filled with doom and gloom. And while the reality of life for many Africans is often difficult, there are success stories to share and inspire others. This 13-part televsion series, produced in cooperation with IFAD, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and Dev.tv, presents just a few. |
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| The Business of Food :
Kenya - Nut Processing |
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On television screens and newspaper front pages around the world, the stories out of Africa are often filled with doom and gloom. And while the reality of life for many Africans is often difficult, there are success stories to share and inspire others. This 13-part televsion series, produced in cooperation with IFAD, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and Dev.tv, presents just a few. |
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| The Business of Food :
Malawi |
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On television screens and newspaper front pages around the world, the stories out of Africa are often filled with doom and gloom. And while the reality of life for many Africans is often difficult, there are success stories to share and inspire others. This 13-part televsion series, produced in cooperation with IFAD, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and Dev.tv, presents just a few. |
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| The Business of Food :
Mali |
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On television screens and newspaper front pages around the world, the stories out of Africa are often filled with doom and gloom. And while the reality of life for many Africans is often difficult, there are success stories to share and inspire others. This 13-part televsion series, produced in cooperation with IFAD, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and Dev.tv, presents just a few. |
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| The Business of Food :
Mozambique |
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On television screens and newspaper front pages around the world, the stories out of Africa are often filled with doom and gloom. And while the reality of life for many Africans is often difficult, there are success stories to share and inspire others. This 13-part televsion series, produced in cooperation with IFAD, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and Dev.tv, presents just a few. |
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| The Business of Food :
Burkina Faso |
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On television screens and newspaper front pages around the world, the stories out of Africa are often filled with doom and gloom. And while the reality of life for many Africans is often difficult, there are success stories to share and inspire others. This 13-part televsion series, produced in cooperation with IFAD, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and Dev.tv, presents just a few. |
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| The Business of Food :
Sao Tome |
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On television screens and newspaper front pages around the world, the stories out of Africa are often filled with doom and gloom. And while the reality of life for many Africans is often difficult, there are success stories to share and inspire others. This 13-part televsion series, produced in cooperation with IFAD, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and Dev.tv, presents just a few. |
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| The Business of Food :
Senegal |
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On television screens and newspaper front pages around the world, the stories out of Africa are often filled with doom and gloom. And while the reality of life for many Africans is often difficult, there are success stories to share and inspire others. This 13-part televsion series, produced in cooperation with IFAD, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and Dev.tv, presents just a few. |
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| Teatime with Bernadette | 10-IFT-23-02 |
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Bernadette is a tea farmer in Rwanda who, like many lost her family to the 1994 genocide. But since she and others began working together in a tea cooperative, she has realized how important economic development is to ensuring lasting peace. Duration: 3' |
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| Cassava Futures | 10-IFT-24-02 |
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Once known as 'poor man's food', cassava -- a starchy tuber -- may now be among the best hopes for reducing poverty in the West African country of Ghana. These short videos looks at cassava's rise in popularity and the impact it's having on poor farmers. Duration: 3' 36" |
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| Faustina's Fortune | 10-IFT-24-01 |
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Once known as 'poor man's food', cassava -- a starchy tuber -- may now be among the best hopes for reducing poverty in the West African country of Ghana. These short videos looks at cassava's rise in popularity and the impact it's having on poor farmers. Duration: 3' |
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| Hassan and the graduates |
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Hassan is university graduate who, like many young people in Egypt, was
having trouble finding a job. Then he heard about a unique government
program that offered landless youth and unemployed university graduates
the opportunity to start their own farms. The only condition was that
they reclaim the land themselves...in the desert. This IFAD documentary
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| Peanut power | 10-IFT-01 |
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| Return to the oasis | 10-IFT-25 |
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What happens when small holder farmers from different parts of the developing world share their knowledge and experience? In 2007, four farmer couples, (husbands and wives), from Oases in Morocco spent six months living with oasis farmers in Mauritania who were struggling to survive. This short video looks at what happened. Duration: 3’ |
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| Building Futures | 10-IFT-01 |
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One year after a political crisis erupted in Madagascar, an IFAD-supported project continues to work with small businesses to provide employment opportunities for young people in poor rural communities. Duration: 4' |
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| Banking on Haiti’s Poor | 09-IFT-07 |
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What can the poorest people do to aid economic development in their own communities? A great deal, when given easy access to financial services and remittance flows, says the Director of Fonkoze, Haiti’s alternative bank for the poor. This short video tells the story of two Fonkoze clients. Duration: 4’ |
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| Mark Farahani: the story of a Tanzanian ‘internetpreneur’ | 09-IFT-06 |
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Tanzanian Mark Farahani is an ‘internetpreneur’. He’s the founder of KIRSEC, arguably the first privately owned Wireless internet service provider in rural Africa. Apart from its remoteness, KIRSEC provides Internet services to the local government and public hospital through a unique public private partnership. This video tells Mark Farahani’s story. Duration: 18’ |
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| The President’s Dilemma | 09-IFT-05 |
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The Pacific islands of Kiribati were among the last places to be colonized by humans. But now, because of rising sea levels, they may be among the first to be abandoned. Should Kiribati President Anote Tong surrender to climate change and evacuate? Can anything be done to help him buy more time? Duration: 24’ |
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The Difference We Make |
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For more than 30 years the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has worked to eradicate rural poverty in developing countries around the world. This 8-minute video provides an overview of the organization and its work. Duration: 15’ |
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| Seeds of Hope | 09-IFT-03 |
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In 2008, global food price spikes and four successive hurricanes battered the Caribbean island of Haiti, causing an estimated US$220 million in damage to food crops. Tens of thousands of farmers were left without a means of earning an income and the country without enough food to eat. This short video looks at a special IFAD-funded programme designed to kick-start the country’s food production quickly and the support needed to make Haiti food secure. Duration: 4’ 30” |
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| Sweet Success | 09-IFT-02 |
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Consumer demand for organic, fair trade chocolate is helping to revive an entire sector of the economy in Sao Tome. Thanks to an initiative first proposed by IFAD, 1400 farmers on this island 230 kilometres of the west coast of Africa have switched to organic cocoa production and are earning more money as a result. Duration: 3’ |
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| Made in Benin | 09-IFT-01 |
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A year ago, 30-year-old mother of six Brigitte Adassin was like many poor African farmers struggling to live on less than 2 US dollars a day. Now she’s financed her first real estate development – a four-unit apartment building. How did she do it? This short video looks at the positive impact that increases in global commodity prices has had on poor rice farmers in Benin. Duration: 4’ 30” |
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| Howa’s Chance | 08-IFT-08
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Volatile global food prices are taking a toll on food security in Eritrea. This short video looks at what an IFAD-support project is doing to improve local agricultural production and the role that women play in helping the country produce more food. Duration: 3’ 30” |
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| Three Sisters | 08-IFT-07 |
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Women in Eritrea are often depicted as Africa’s most liberated sisterhood. They fought on the frontlines in the country’s 30-year war of independence. But in Eritrea’s poor rural heartland, woman’s liberation is a war still being fought. And the challenge is to convince women themselves of the need for change. This documentary tells the stories of three rural women and explores what the government and National Union of Eritrean Women in partnership with IFAD are doing to help improve women’s lives. Featured on BBC World Duration: 24’ |
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| Fuel for thought | 08-IFT-06 |
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Among human activities agriculture is one of the largest producers of methane, a potent greenhouse gas 22 times more damaging to the atmosphere than carbon dioxide. Now an IFAD-supported project in China’s Guangxi province is encouraging thousands of poor farmers to turn the methane produced on their farms into fuel for lighting and cooking, not only helping to improve local environmental conditions but reduce poverty. Durations: 6’ and 4’ Featured on DW-TV |
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| “Qashing” In | 08-IFT-03 |
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Rising food prices are having a devastating effect on the poorest people, particularly smallholder farmers in developing countries. This short video features an isolated community in Tanzania called Qash and illustrates what can happen when smallholder farmers get access to both credit and storage facilities for their grains. In particularly, the video tells the story of one woman, Maimuna Ikangoin, who stores her grains and then finds an innovative way to invest her profits in international football competitions. Duration: 4’ 55” |
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| Ecotourism in Bolivia | 08-IFT-04 |
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The Bolivian Jungle is fast becoming an eco-tourist hotspot. Yet despite the growing number of tourists arriving each day, it’s international tour operators who profit most, not the poor indigenous people who live there. Now, thanks to the efforts of an innovative project that is helping more than 100 indigenous groups in the Amazon basin increase their incomes while preserving their culture, indigenous entrepreneurs are taking a share of the tourism market. Duration: 4’ |
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“Food – Who Pays the Price?” raises important questions about who produces the food we eat and how. Urbanization, climate change, changing diets in emerging economies and the impact of supermarkets are putting new pressures on the land and changing the face of farming. Meanwhile small farmers around the world are leaving the land in increasing numbers. Staged in Rome to mark IFAD’s 30th Anniversary.
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| IFAD – A 30 year retrospective | Reference 08-IFT-02 |
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IFAD marks 30 years of fighting rural poverty and hunger in 2008. This special retrospective video examines IFAD’s unique origins, some of its milestones as well as the changing world conditions that continue to shape its role as the UN’s only specialized agency dedicated to the eradicaiton of rural poverty. Featuring interviews with IFAD’s former presidents and President Lennart Båge. Duration: 10’ |
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| Gas Gas Gas | 2008 Reference 08-IFT-01 |
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An IFAD-supported project in China’s Guangxi province encourages poor farmers to produce their own biogas as a means of reducing poverty while improving local environmental conditions. Duration: 22’ As featured on BBC World’s “Earth Report” |
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| Sending Money Home | Reference 07-IFT-04 |
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International remittances sent by migrant workers to developing countries reached a staggering US$300 billion in 2006, according to an IFAD study. This short documentary looks at the scope and scale of the flow and features the first-ever map to show remittances estimates on a country-by-country basis worldwide. Duration: 3’ As featured on CNN World Report |
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| Troubled Waters | 2007 Reference 07-IFT-03 |
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An IFAD-supported project in the south of Jordan helps poor farmers better manage soil and water resources in one of the world’s top ten water-poor countries. Duration: 3’ As featured on CNN World Report |
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Fourteen international panelists consider the issues in this BBC World debate produced in partnership with IFAD and TVE Read more
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| Fishermen’s Futures | 2007 Reference 07-IFT-01 |
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The Arabian Sea is one of the world’s richest fisheries, yet until recently fishermen living along its coast in Yemen remained desperately poor. This short video looks at how an IFAD-supported project helped transform poor fishermen into successful fish exporters, who now sell their catch to buyers from Saudi Arabia, Japan and Europe. Duration: 3’
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| I Spy | 2006 Reference 06-IFT-06 |
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Market spies and modern communication technology join forces in an innovative IFAD-supported project in Tanzania. This short documentary features “spy” Stanley Mchome, whose activities have not only helped to empower local farmers but to substantially increase their incomes. Duration: 3’ |
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| Every Dollar Sent | 2006 Reference 06-IFT-05 |
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The Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) reports that remittances flowing from the United States into Latin America reached a record-breaking US$45 billion in 2006. This IFAD documentary looks at a joint IADB-IFAD project attempting to re-direct a portion of the remittance flow through micro-finance institutions in rural communities. Duration: 3’ |
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| Villages on the Front Line: Jordan | 2007 Reference 07-IFT-02 |
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The BBC World Series "Villages on the Front Line," was produced in partnership with IFAD, the Global Mechanism, Dev.tv and others to mark the International Year of Deserts and Desertification in 2006. In this segment, viewers travel to Jordan where the challenge is to stop the entire Kingdom from turning to desert. TV presenter Rula Amin travels the length of Jordan in search of some answers and discovers an innovative IFAD-supported project working on the front lines of the crisis. Originally featured on BBC World Duration: 22’ |
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| La última esperanza de un sombrero | 2006 Reference 06-IFT-03 |
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Believing it may be their last chance to profit from the production of traditional straw hats, a group of Mayan artisans calling themselves ‘la última esperanza’ receives assistance and marketing advice from an IFAD-supported project. Duration: 4’ |
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| The First Mile | 2006, Reference 06-IFT-01 |
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Good communication is vital to small farmers who need better access to markets and to reliable information about prices, product quality and market conditions. Can new information and communication technologies, such as mobile phones and the Internet, help? This IFAD video looks at the First Mile - an innovative two-year pilot project underway in Tanzania. Duration: 8’ 14” |
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| Cash Flow Fever | 2005,
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Elmer, Hector and Dalila Cortez have left their home and family in El Salvador to work in the United States . They’re part of a huge global movement of migrant workers who travel to rich countries to find jobs so they can send money home to support poor families. What impact does this cash flow have in the fight against poverty? This IFAD documentary tells the story of the Cortez family in the United States and El Salvador and explores the role development can play in spreading the impact of the remittances flow. Duration: 22’ 41” |
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Mayan honey producers in Mexico’s Southern Yucatan switch to organic production and tap into lucrative international markets. Duration: 5’ 14” |
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An IFAD-supported project in Mexico helps a women’s group set up a sheep farm. One participant tells her story. Duration: 5’ 18” |
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| Election Day | 2005,
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The people of Burundi are heading to the polls to elect their first parliament and president since a civil war began in 1993. This report explores how IFAD-initiated Community Development Committees contribute to democratic processes and peace building by putting economic decision-making power in the hands of poor villagers. Duration: 4'
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| A Pledge for Peace | 2005, Reference 05-IFT-02 |
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Development assistance can offer people an alternative to conflict in countries disabled by war. This report explores the impact that economic development had in several provinces in Burundi during the country's 10-year civil war and the need for continued international support since the war has ended. Duration: 4' |
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| In the Wake of War | 2004, Reference
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After 10 years of civil war, Burundians are ready for lasting peace. This IFAD documentary, co-produced with the Television Trust for the Environment (TVE) for broadcast on BBC World, follows the stories of three people who are attempting to rebuild their lives. Through their stories, the film explores the larger challenges that face the country and the role that international development can play in preventing conflict from re-igniting. Duration: 23’ 40”
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| Entrepreneurs wanted | 2004, Reference 04-IFT-02 |
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A innovative government program supported by IFAD attempts to unlock the entrepreneurial spirit in one of the world's poorest countries. Durations: 4' 10'' |
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| Breaking Down Borders | 2004, Reference 04-IFT-01 |
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Nine Latin American entrepreneurs, representing artisans from poor rural communities, attempt to sell their goods in one of Europe's toughest fashion capitals. Durations: 4' 20'' and 8' 30''
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Still, the children are here |
2003, Reference 03-IFT-01 |
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The plight of the Garos people in north-east India and related threats to ancient knowledge important to the preservation of the world's rice varieties are explored in this feature-length documentary film supported by IFAD and produced by acclaimed Indian filmmaker Mira Nair. Durations: 49' 50'' and 84' 57'' |
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Radio: The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) works with poor rural people to enable them to grow and sell more food, increase their incomes and determine the direction of their own lives. Since 1978, IFAD has invested over US$11 billion in grants and low-interest loans to developing countries, empowering some 350 million people to break out of poverty. IFAD is an international financial institution and a specialized UN agency based in Rome – the UN’s food and agricultural hub. It is a unique partnership of 165 members from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), other developing countries and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
