updated: 28 November, 2008
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Howa’s Chance 
Three sisters

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”
Location: Eritrea
Producer: James Heer
Language: English

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Three Sisters
Three sisters

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’
Location: Eritrea
Producer: James Heer
Language: English

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Fuel for thought
Fuel for thought

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’
Location: China
Producer: James Heer
Languages: English

Featured on DW-TV

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