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To address climate change, the Sahelian countries have started a forest regeneration initiative called Great Green Wall. Senegalese and French researchers participate in this programme by surveying under a cross-disciplinary perspective the impacts on local environments and societies.

The Italian filmmaker Mario RUSPOLI shot "Les inconnus de la terre", or the unknown of the earth, produced by Argos film, in Lozere in 1961, . This film about the farmers of this French department, and beyond, about the disinherited, about the isolated man, as Ruspoli himself has it, is a landmark in the history of documentary film. 50 years later, Jean-Christophe Monferran, director, Françoise-Eugénie Petit and Martin de la Soudière, as researchers who are familiar with these fields of…

During the second half of the twentieth century, the dramatic decrease of rainfall over the whole of West Africa has been a real cause for alarm…AMMA, the scientific programme for Multidisciplinary Analysis of the African Monsoon, seeks to improve meteorological and climate forecasts on different time scales and in different places in west Africa. Its originality is that it also focuses on impacts linked to climatic fluctuations, and the repercussions on agriculture, health, and on the…

The villagers of Salmé, in Nepal, farm a mountainside where different cereals are grown at different altitudes.

Maurice Godelier, the first ethnologist to have met the Baruya people of Papua New Guinea, describes his working methods and personal relationships with the Baruya.

This documentary was filmed with the participation of young farmers in the Causse. They speak of their future in terms of the social transformation taking place and of the population shift towards the cities.

The last expedition of Nemadi in Mauritania. Years of drought have drastically reduced the game in some areas of Africa. However a hunting expedition is organized by a group of Nemadi in the "Akle" area, on the initiative of Professor Gabus.

The Yafar live in the province of western Sepik in Papua New Guinea, practicing an itinerant slash-and-burn agriculture. Here the inhabitants of the village make a new clearing in the forest.

Ethnologists, agricultural experts and historians are studying the life, customs and traditions of the stock farmers of Aubrac, a region whose economy is based on grazing.

The traditional festivals and work in the four seasons, observed in several villages of the Châtillonnais (France) in the course of year 1967.

The hard-working life of one of the last cheese-makers in Aubrac to work in the traditional way.