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The perfect famine / TVE International ; BBC Worldwide ; written and directed by Steve Bradshaw.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Life (Bullfrog Films). Series 3 ; 5.
- Life ; 5
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Famines--Political aspects--Malawi.
- Famines.
- Food relief--Political aspects--Malawi.
- Food relief.
- Rural poor--Malawi.
- Rural poor.
- Malnutrition--Malawi.
- Malnutrition.
- Malnutrition in children--Malawi.
- Malnutrition in children.
- Family farms--Economic aspects--Malawi.
- Family farms.
- Agriculture--Economic aspects--Malawi.
- Agriculture.
- Agriculture--Economic aspects.
- Social conditions.
- Globalization--Economic aspects.
- Globalization--Social aspects.
- Family farms--Economic aspects.
- Food relief--Political aspects.
- Famines--Political aspects.
- Malawi.
- Globalization--Social aspects--Malawi.
- Globalization.
- Globalization--Economic aspects--Malawi.
- Malawi--Social conditions.
- Malawi--Economic conditions.
- Economic conditions.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 streaming video file (27 min.) : digital, sound, color.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- [Oley, Pennsylvania] : [Distributed by] Bullfrog Films, [2017]
- System Details:
- System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- video file
- Summary:
- The 'Perfect Famine' is the kind of famine that happens when everything that can go wrong does go wrong, either because of natural disasters or because of the activities of humans. That's what is happening in the southern African country of Malawi, where bad weather, poor governance, and profiteering have combined to create a desperate situation. It is at the epicenter of what may become a major famine in the south of the continent. Families are resorting to strategies such as abandoning villages, stealing crops, and eating next year's seed corn - yet Malawi is a green land that should be able to sustain itself. Although many have thought foreign aid would lift the world's poor out of absolute poverty, there is now a growing consensus that the policies of poor countries and ineffectual bureaucracies are major obstacles to sustainable development.
- Participant:
- Commentary: Modesta Chilembwe, Collins Magalasi, Robert Jamieson, Ellard Malindi, Poul Nielson, J.K. Galbraith, Fred L. Smith, Paul Krugman, Bridget Moreta.
- Credits:
- Series editor, Jenny Richards.
- Notes:
- Title from title frames.
- Originally produced by: TVE, ©2002; previously released in 2003.
- Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed May 1, 2017).
- Publisher Number:
- bf-l3tpf Docuseek2
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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