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Africa

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Food for 9 Billion
Exploring the challenge of keeping ourselves fed at a time of rapid social and environmental change.
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Alan Weisman
Special Projects
Countdown
Alan Weisman
Special Projects
Countdown
In this monumental piece of reporting, Alan Weisman travels to more than 20 countries, beginning in Israel and Palestine and ending in Iran, on an urgent search for ways to restore the balance between our species’ population and our planet’s capacity to sustain us.
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Jonathan Miller
Food for 9 Billion
Aquaponic Lunch
Jonathan Miller
Food for 9 Billion
Aquaponic Lunch
Aquaponics is a recirculating system for raising fish and vegetables that uses less land, water, and chemicals than traditional methods. For years it has attracted hobbyists but few others. A Ugandan entrepreneur thinks its time has finally come.
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Jonathan Miller
Food for 9 Billion
Transgenic Lunch
Jonathan Miller
Food for 9 Billion
Transgenic Lunch
Scientists in the U.S. and Uganda have developed genetically engineered cassava plants that resist two devastating viral diseases. Is it a boon for small farmers or a Trojan horse?
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Gretchen Wilson
Food for 9 Billion
Africa’s Supermarket Sweepstakes
Gretchen Wilson
Food for 9 Billion
Africa’s Supermarket Sweepstakes
The spread of modern grocery chains could lift millions of African farmers out of poverty. Or it could ruin them.
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Jori Lewis
Food for 9 Billion
Spilled and Spoiled in Senegal
Jori Lewis
Food for 9 Billion
Spilled and Spoiled in Senegal
How we limit food waste and losses depends on where we live. Jori Lewis visits small-scale milk producers in Senegal.
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Fred de Sam Lazaro
Food for 9 Billion
Re-Greening the Sahel
Fred de Sam Lazaro
Food for 9 Billion
Re-Greening the Sahel
In Niger, farmers race to reclaim the desert and break the link between drought and famine.
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Jori Lewis
Food for 9 Billion
Soil is Ground Zero in African Farming Debate
Jori Lewis
Food for 9 Billion
Soil is Ground Zero in African Farming Debate
In Africa, a debate is raging over the best ways to make small farms more productive. Most people agree that soil is the key. But how to boost fertility? Farmers in Ghana face tough choices.
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Fred de Sam Lazaro
Food for 9 Billion
Business Fund Puts African Farmers on Road to Market
Fred de Sam Lazaro
Food for 9 Billion
Business Fund Puts African Farmers on Road to Market
A start-up in East Africa aims to give small-scale producers the tools they need to compete – and business is booming.
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Cassandra Herrman, Beth Hoffman
Food for 9 Billion
In Ethiopia, a Battle for Land and Water
Cassandra Herrman, Beth Hoffman
Food for 9 Billion
In Ethiopia, a Battle for Land and Water
A controversial resettlement program in Ethiopia is the latest battleground in the global race to secure prized farmland and water.
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WORKING
Profiles of workers in the global economy, broadcast as a special monthly feature on Marketplace.
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Jonathan Miller
WORKING
Runner
Jonathan Miller
WORKING
Runner
Salina Kosgei always loved to run. At 16, she decided to make a career of it. Sixteen years and two kids later she found herself elbow to elbow with the defending champ in the most prestigious marathon in the world, with the finish line in sight.
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Gregory Warner
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Miner
Gregory Warner
WORKING
Miner
Fidele Musafiri spends his days, and often his nights, banging away at a wall of stone in a crude tunnel under a Congolese mountain. He’s a small man with a hammer, a spike, and a dream of striking it rich. But danger is never far away.
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Jonathan Miller
WORKING
Movie Director
Jonathan Miller
WORKING
Movie Director
Nigeria’s Nollywood film industry may be the third largest in the world, but with little government support, daily power failures, no real studios, and rudimentary equipment, Nigerian filmmakers must be masters of making do. That describes Lancelot Oduwa Imasuen to a tee.
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Jonathan Miller
WORKING
Basketball Scout
Jonathan Miller
WORKING
Basketball Scout
Nigerian Sam Ahmedu is a foot soldier in the NBA’s army of international recruiters. A few of his finds have made it to the pros, but that’s not what motivates him.
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Alan Weisman
Special Projects
The World Without Us
Alan Weisman
Special Projects
The World Without Us
How would the Earth respond if humans were suddenly to disappear? How quickly would our cities, our objects, our waste, and the myriad other changes we have wrought disappear – or would they disappear at all? Most urgently, asks this New York Times bestseller, what can we do to lessen the damage we’re inflicting on the only planet we have?
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Worlds of Difference
Stories about people and communities facing critical decisions about who they are and who they want to be.
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Marianne McCune
Worlds of Difference
Relearning the Peace
Marianne McCune
Worlds of Difference
Relearning the Peace
Burundi’s Hutus and Tutsis practice the same religion and speak the same language. Intermarriage is common. But decades of violence have made even the most imaginary differences tragically real. In 2005, voters in Burundi approved a constitution that requires the two groups to share power. For the country’s new leaders, that means unlearning bad habits. Marianne McCune attends a retreat for the newly integrated national police.
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Jonathan Miller
Worlds of Difference
Maasai Schools
Jonathan Miller
Worlds of Difference
Maasai Schools
The Maasai people of Kenya have long considered public education as a trick designed to rob them of their culture. Now many see the schools as a key to survival – and as a way to change some aspects of their culture that need changing.
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Sandy Tolan
World Views
Ethiopian Jews
Sandy Tolan
World Views
Ethiopian Jews
A profile of Shula Mulah, an Israeli woman of Ethiopian descent, who came to Israel in 1984 as part of an airlift called “Operation Moses.”