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Hunger and Poverty
Videos
A Fast That Lasts
A complete kit for a 24
or 30-hour fasting retreat with lasting impact. Includes Hunger
Has A Cure CD-ROM, a three-segment video, Bible study, games,
activities, and a detailed planning guide. Adaptable for middle
school through high school. Order online now or by phone through
Presbyterian Distribution Service at (800) 524-2612, referencing
PDS #7436002324. $20.00
The Global Banquet: Politics Of Food
Maryknoll
World Productions, 1-800-227-8523
Excellent educational
piece covering agriculture and trade issues as well as overproduction,
GM crops, environmental impact, farm labor, family farms, etc.
Ideal for a two-part high school, college or adult education
series. Discussion and study guide included, this video is
divided into two 25-minute segments.
Silent Killer: The Unfinished Campaign Against Hunger
A brilliant
new film produced and directed by Hana Jindrova and John de
Graaf about the neglected issue of world hunger. Jindrova and
de Graaf skillfully weave together compelling stories, vivid
characters, stunning photography and memorable narration to
produce a tour de force which wakes up the viewer to the importance
of world hunger and what must be done about it. www.silentkillerfilm.org
Available from other sources:
A Fistful Of Rice
Protein deficiency threatens generations
of children in Nepal, directed by Alex Gabbay, produced by
Television Trust for the Environment, UK, 2001.
This program unravels the complex causes and effects of Protein
Energy Malnutrition through the stories of people in Nepal
who live with it on a daily basis. It also explores ways of
changing attitudes towards food and gender. The producer of
this program has collected extensive resources - [Read
more].
Because They're Worth It
Micro-credit, education, health information,
and hope provided to impoverished Chinese, directed by John
Liu, and produced by Television Trust for the Environment,
UK, 2000.
Internationally, the definition for absolute poverty is living
on an income of under $1 a day. But the Chinese government
has a lower threshold: the definition for poverty in China
is living on 66 cents a day. Out of a total Chinese population
of 1.3 billion, there are 42 million Chinese who are poor.
This film looks at a scheme which is helping poor people break
out of the cycle of poverty and ignorance -- by providing them
with small loans, basic health information, education... and
hope. The producer of this program has collected extensive
resources - [Read
more].
Big Spuds, Little Spuds
The impact of climate change and monoculture
on one of the world's staple food crops, produced by Christoph
Corves and Delia Castineira, Bullfrog Films, US, 1999.
Takes a close look at the potato to examine the effects of
climate change and monoculture on one of the world's staple
food crops. With half the planet's population dependent on
rice, wheat, potatoes, and corn, to what extent are pests and
disease - often exacerbated by climate change - threatening
world food security? [Read
more]
Circle Of Plenty
Produced by Bette Jean Bullert and John de
Graaf, USA, 1987.
John Jeavons and his co-workers at Common
Ground have spent the last 26 years doing pioneering research
to improve the yield of home gardens. He calls his technique
biointensive agriculture. His goal is to produce the maximum
amount of food from a small plot using the minimum amount
of energy inputs and water. The results have been spectacular
and offer real hope for solving at least part of the world
hunger problem. [Read
more]
Credit Where Credit Is Due
Microcredit organization in Bangladesh
provides loans to village poor, directed by Ashley Bruce, produced
by Television Trust for the Environment, UK, 2000.
Shilmundi is a village in southeastern Bangladesh, very nearly
the poorest and certainly the most densely populated country
in the world. The big banks in Bangladesh, like so many other
banks around the world, don't lend money to the rural poor.
But the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee does. Set up
to fight the overwhelming poverty of the 1970s, it's now the
largest lender of micro-credit loans in the world. "Credit
Where Credit is Due" recounts how taking out a loan revolutionized
the lives of village women, not only increasing their incomes
but also helping to improve their, and their children's, health.
The producer of this program has collected extensive resources
- [Read
more].
Cultivating Opportunity
Self-Help Solutions to Poverty in
the U.S. And Africa, produced by Oxfam America and directed
by Michael Sheridan. Bullfrog Films, USA, 1997.
Tells the story of how poor communities in Mozambique and
the United States are creating opportunities to better their
lives. Their work is a road map to ending hunger and poverty.
The video shows how communities in vastly different parts of
the world demonstrate surprising similarities in the self-help
solutions they champion to fight poverty. More
information and the accompanying study guide.
Democratic Allsorts
Directed by Julian Russell and Tony Gailey,
produced by 220 Productions Ltd, USA, 1993.
Frances Moore Lappé,
author of Diet for a Small Planet, says famine is caused not
by a lack of food but by a lack of democracy. This film addresses
the importance of democratic decision making on an individual
and global level to prevent hunger and starvation. More
information about this film.
Genetic Time Bomb
Produced by John de Graaf and Vivia Boe,
The Video Project, USA, 1994.
The world's food supply may be
seriously endangered by a dramatic decline in crop diversity. "Genetic
Time Bomb" looks
at the historic changes in agriculture that could lead to catastrophe,
the importance of maintaining biodiversity, and profiles the
growing worldwide network of "seed savers" who are
cultivating thousands of rare and threatened species of vegetables
and fruits. [Read
more]
Growing Community From The Roots Up
This video tells the American
Community Gardening Association and community gardening story.
Helpful for making a presentation to people interested in starting
a community garden but who don't know very much about the topic,
or when you have to convince your local government officials
that there really are people all over the country doing this.
Harvest Of Fear
Produced by Jon Palfreman, a Frontline/NOVA
Special, USA, 2001.
Are genetically modified foods a vital
breakthrough that will help to end world hunger and reducing
global pollution, or are they "Frankenfoods" that
will ruin health and provoke environmental disaster? In "Harvest
of Fear," FRONTLINE
and NOVA explore the intensifying debate over genetically-modified
(gm) food crops. Interviewing scientists, farmers, biotechnology
and food industry representatives, government regulators, and
critics of biotechnology, this two-hour report presents both
sides of the debate, exploring the risks and benefits, the
hopes and fears, of this new technology.
More information about
the Frontline/NOVA report and the accompanying teacher's guide.
Heart Of The Congo
Produced by Thomas Weidlinger, MOIRA Productions,
Bullfrog films, 2004.
At the end of five years of civil war and
300 miles from the nearest paved road, a handful of aid
workers help refugees who have lost everything. Filmmaker Tom
Weidlinger lives amongst them and tells their story as they
train Congolese staff to run health clinics, mobilize villagers
to dig wells for clean water and nurse children suffering from
acute malnutrition. We encourage organizations to use this
film together with SILENT KILLER. The producer has collected
extensive resources -[Read
more].
Heifer
Produced by Bob Gliner, PBS-KTEH, USA, 2004.
Explores a different
way for Americans to relate to people in other nations by
providing an intimate look at Heifer Project International's
work of giving animals to poor villagers in developing nations
as a way of addressing poverty and promoting community development.
[Read
more]
Hot Potatoes
Produced by John de Graaf and Jack Hamann, Bullfrog
Films, US, 2001.
Explores the dangers of potato blight and
the chemicals used to control it. In the 1950s, American
plant geneticist, Dr. John Niederhauser, began a decades-long
quest to breed blight-resistant potatoes. He was sure
that farmers in developing nations could scarcely afford the
sophisticated chemical sprays that were becoming the staple
of American, Canadian and European potato production. He
warned that blight might someday become resistant to many chemicals
then available. Decades later, that prediction has come true.
[Read
More]
Hunger No More: Faces Behind The Facts
Produced by Burton
Buller, President of Mennonite Media, in collaboration with
the National Council of Churches, USA, 2004.
Takes a look at
the persistent problem of food insecurity, a daily reality
for millions of Americans and nearly a billion people worldwide.
It approaches hunger from the perspective of faith, declaring
that it isn't a social, but above all a moral issue. More
information about the film and the accompanying study guide.
Living With Hunger (Surviving Hunger)
Produced by Sorious
Samura, an Insight News Television Production for Discovery/Times
in association with CNNI, Channel Four (UK), CBC and 2 Vandaag,
US, 2004.
Sorious Samura set out to understand the real stories of people
living on the edge of starvation. Between August and September
2003, he lived in a remote village in Ethiopia far away from
the range of the UN and most NGO's, and survived on the same
meager diet as the rest of the villagers. Sorious discovers
that the daily reality for more than 40 million Africans is
a diet ranging from nothing to a handful of weeds. He questions
how we can expect Africa to develop when so many Africans are
engaged in a daily struggle to survive. [Read
more]
Risky Business
Biotechnology and Agriculture, directed by
Mark Dworkin and Melissa Young, produced by Moving Images Video
Project, USA, 1996.
Thousands of plants and animals are being
genetically engineered: foods for longer shelf life, crops
to tolerate more poison chemicals, and pigs so that their
hearts can be transplanted into people. What are the effects
of this new technology on farmers, our food supply, public
health and the environment? "Risky
Business" is designed to stimulate discussion about this
important subject. [Read
More]
The Price Of Aid
Produced by Jihan El Tahri, First Run Icarus
Films, USA, 2004.
Every day the U.S. donates millions of tons
of food to famine victims and other starving people in the
world's poorest countries. This provocative documentary shows
how these aid programs may address an immediate crisis but
at the same time can create long-term problems for the recipient
nation. "The Price
of Aid" discusses this complex issue in a global context
and how assistance provided by the European Commission for
Humanitarian Aid differs from U.S. policies. [Read
more]
Reinventing The World - Food
Devising a sustainable food system
-- one that is healthy, accessible, and affordable. [Read
more]
The Summit
The UN General Assembly meets to review progress
on social justice worldwide, directed by Steve Bradshaw, produced
by Television Trust for the Environment, UK, 2000.
The 1995
Copenhagen Social Summit promised action on poverty, employment
and social integration. But in the years since Copenhagen,
the gap between the rich and the poor actually widened, while
development assistance from the industrialized donor countries
went into sharp decline. In June 2000 heads of state held a
special session of the UN General Assembly to review progress
on the Social Summit. The producer of this program has collected
extensive resources - [Read
more].
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