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.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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