Brazil

This video shows how the re-use of coconut husks has contributed towards the sustainable use of forest resources in the Amazon while providing numerous sources of income. It explains sow coconut fibre and latex (produced from rubber trees) products are biodegradable and can be recycled.

Pakistan

The Orangi Pilot Project (OPP) is one of the world's best-known non government projects in the large-scale provision of sanitation for the urban poor. This initiative is still a self-funded and self-managed grassroots movement that relies purely on the skills and resources of the urban poor. The film shows the process of its replication in Faisalabad.

Jamaica

This video shows how the increased urbanisation of the island of Jamaica has resulted in over half of the population now living in cities and towns. Tremendous pressure has been placed on the island's supply of housing and the growth of squatter settlements is accelerating rapidly, developing in vulnerable areas without access to acceptable facilities and services.

Ethiopia

In Ethiopia, one of the most popular staple foods is injera (household bread) which is a large flat pancake eaten by the Ethiopians at least once a day. Its baking, the most energy-intensive activity in Ethiopia, accounts for over 50% of all primary energy consumption in the country and over 75% of the total energy consumed in households. The average family burns around 20 kilogramms of wood a week just making injera.

India

About 30,000 Mumbai families, residents of a narrow strip alongside the railway track lobbied the authorities for safer housing and formed in 1989 the 'Railway Slum Dwellers Federation'. They built up solidarity with three other groups - The Society for the Promotion of Area Resource Centres (SPARC), The National Slum Dwellers Fede-ration and Mahila Milan which in Hindi means 'women together'.