Sharing the Future

The Rajasthan Canal in India is not yet complete but already it has transformed great tracts of desert into agricultural land. The ancient Inca terraces of Peru are being restored and used again, the eroded hills of Ethiopia terraced and reforested.

• Categories: News & Features / Features
• Video Length: 00:27:28
• Production Date: 30 October 1983
• Asset Language: English
• Corporate Name: WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME - WFP
• Subject Topical: AGRICULTURE; DESERTIFICATION; FOOD; FOOD DISTRIBUTION; REFORESTATION; WATER
• Geographic Subject: ETHIOPIA; INDIA; PERU
• MAMS Id: 2643561
• Parent Id: 2643561

Description

There are not many machines at the three locations shown in this film, it is human labour, backbreaking but rewarding, that is changing the landscape. Human labour paid for in part by food donated by many countries through the World Food Programme of the United Nations.

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• Scripts: File; SHARING_THE_FUTURE_683_SCRIPT_30JUN83.pdf (626.53 KB); File; SHARING_THE_FUTURE_683_SYNOPSIS_30JUN83.pdf (123.99 KB)