Video Material

The Information Division has produced a series of 30" promos and a video focusing on the essential role that water plays in FAO's efforts to help build a world without hunger. Water problems and water solutions are related by the very farmers who are now reaping the benefits of irrigation schemes and improved resource management.

• Young mother Gracie Foti, who lost her crops to months of drought, makes bricks for a new irrigation system on the shores of Lake Malawi.



• Just 10 km down the road, village headman Steven Ruben replants his land, after flash flooding swept away his corn and water-logged his land.



• 22-year-old Agnes Mwale and her fellow villagers work together to rebuild an abandoned dam in the famine stricken region of Kasungo.



• In Ecuador, widowed mother of 9 and grandmother of 20 Hermerita Chala doubles her yield with a simple and efficient irrigation system.

The 8-minute video is available to broadcasters in Betacam (PAL).

To order copies or for further information, please contact Production Manager Enrique Yeves on +39 06 57052518
or enrique.yeves@fao.org.