In the 1950s, journalist Tom Patterson became convinced that Shakespeare could help revitalize his hometown of Stratford, Ontario. Today, Suchitoto, El Salvador hopes to do the same, in partnership with Stratford.
Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley has produced wine for over four thousand years. That tradition continues today, with Lebanon boasting some world-class reds. But vintners have had to deal with fundamentalists, civil war, and invading armies.
Ethiopia is renowned for the diversity of its seeds, with native resistance to drought, pests and climate change. Listen to 1989 Right Livelihood Award winner Melaku Worede talk about seed diversity in his homeland, Ethiopia.
Southern Lebanese farmers are in a bind. On the one hand, Israeli cluster bombs continue to pollute their fields. On the other hand, they’ve been abandoned by Lebanon’s political elite, who prefer to see Lebanon import its food.
Earth’s fruit sustains human culture and maybe even peace. From Lebanon, wine is more than just an intoxicating drink. A thousand miles to the south, Ethiopia’s varied landscape is a cradle for seeds, upon which the whole world survives.
It’s hard to imagine a development tool more powerful than a radio station. For the past few years, a little station called FADECO has been promoting rural development in the community of Karagwe, in northwest Tanzania.
By its very nature, water can only be successfully managed by consensus. When conflicts arise, smart solutions are often the exception. Nowhere are water conflicts more common than in the landlocked South American nation of Bolivia.
Nourishment for the mind: In the west African nation of Sierra Leone, villagers rises above the ruins of war by volunteering to be teachers. In the Central American nation of El Salvador, another town turns to theatre to boost its prospects.
The last in a series of feature documentaries about Bumbire Island. Visiting a fishing camp called Lushonga.
Poor farmers have always set off to the nearest big city in search of income. Opportunities are often a dream, and obstacles abound. Many forsake their most valuable asset – their own traditions.
Bumbire Island … The third in a series of feature documentaries about life, health and development on a small island in Lake Victoria, Tanzania.
Victoria, B.C. native Kevin Neish set off to Gaza at the end of May on the Mavi Marmara — and almost made it. He recalls Israel’s hijacking and brutalization of the Mavi’s passengers.
Bumbire Island … the second in a series of feature documentaries about life, health, and development on a small island in Lake Victoria, Tanzania.
Bumbire Island, the first in a series of feature documentaries about life, health and development on a little island in Lake Victoria, Tanzania.
If everyone on Earth earned what their labour was truly worth, global poverty would be less rampant. Paying people what their labour is worth is what the so-called Fair Trade movement is all about.
The joys of coffee. Two stories about fair trade java, from Guatemala and Peru! And from beautiful Uganda—the Pearl of Africa—a story about cooperative innovation.
Garbage, garbage everywhere; how to deal with all the garbage; on Rwanda’s green hillsides and in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, smart solutions are being devised. And from Guatemala—a tale of fair trade.
Community radio making waves in northwestern Tanzania, independent journalism taking root in Rwanda, and a shipping container filled with books captures the attention of kids in Ghana.
A joint training project between the Departments of Psychiatry at the Universities of Toronto and Addis Ababa are turning out some of Africa’s most skilled practitioners.
The struggle for land in post-Apartheid South Africa and on the steep mountain slopes of Honduras. And from West Africa, a story about forests being harvested—beneath a lake.
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