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There is enough food in the world to ensure that no one goes hungry. Yet huge amounts of produce is lost on the way from field to plate.
Two decades ago there were no Southern White rhinoceros left in Uganda. Then the Rhino Fund sanctuary imported six and started a breeding program. Now there are 24. In the sanctuary they are protected by rangers.
In Taiwan the number of children with shortsightedness is extremely high. It appears that studying long hours indoors is one factor, not spending much time outdoors in daylight is another. 80 percent of highschool leavers in Taiwan have myopia.
Meet Sharon from Cartago in Costa Rica. She is very close to her family. Her dream is to open a beauty salon with her sister. But she has a back-up plan in case that doesn't work out.
Obesity is spreading. The United States may be at the forefront, but many other countries are catching up. In Spain the number of obese people has doubled since the late 1990s. A doctor in Narón is determined to get his portly patients moving.
There were no southern white rhinos left in Uganda until the Rhino Fund imported a few and started a breeding program. Now there are 24 at its sanctuary in Ziwa, protected by a large team of rangers.
Thousands of tons of discarded electrical goods end up in Ghana's capital Accra every year. The German development agency GIZ is helping with the recycling – in an effort to reduce the impact on workers’ health at the waste dump.
A car battery plant in the Belarusian city of Brest has fueled protests. Activists are warning about the impact of highly toxic lead.
Every year around 60 young people from poor communities on the island of Sumba get the opportunity to do training in hotel management. The project aims to lift people out of poverty.
Habimana Moise was born in Rwanda in 1994, the year of the genocide. His parents were Hutu and fled to the Democratic Republic of Congo through fear of revenge from the Tutsi people. We accompany him as he returns to Rwanda for the first time.
Refugees return home to Rwanda 25 years after the genocide. Also on the show – Africa's largest electric scrapyard.
"Slash and burn" agriculture involves lighting fires to clear land. It's been practiced for generations in Belize. The method makes the soil more fertile for a short time, but it also releases huge amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
Over 300,000 women in Peru were forcibly sterilized in the late 1990s. They are still suffering today. We also report from Belize, where slash and burn agriculture has been practiced for generations. Now more sustainable methods are making inroads.
The Egyptian government office charged with drafting religious laws is offering marriage preparation courses. The teaching at the very conservative center is surprisingly humorous at times and encourages attendees to accept and respect their spouses.
Pangolins are the world's most trafficked mammals. In China and Vietnam, their scales are considered to have miraculous powers. In South Africa, conservationists are working to rescue pangolins from the hands of the poachers.
In Siberia there is growing hostility towards China: illegal loggers are destroying the region's forests and selling timber to China. Demonstrations are taking place in Omsk in protest at plans to build housing for some 3,000 Chinese workers.
War has been raging in Afghanistan in one form or other for 40 years and has left much of the population traumatized. Women are especially affected: they're victims not only of war and terror, but also patriarchal traditions.
Georgia's capital Tbilisi has gained an international reputation as a hip hub of nightlife. But traditionalists, from the Church to political activists, are unhappy about the city's flourishing liberal culture.
In Siberia, protests against Chinese influence. Afghan women at the mercy of violent men. Young Georgians who resist traditionalists.
In rural Kenya, many people are off the grid, cooking over open fires. A project to provide smallholder farmers with a biogas plant they feed with manure enables them to switch to methane, which burns cleanly.
Children in the US with access to weapons; a pastor in Cape Town who wants to stop criminal gangs; child brides in India find help at a boarding school.
Making amends for environmental destruction. Colombian gas provider Promigas is funding conservation projects to compensate for the damage done by its pipelines. The beneficiary is the Los Colorados wildlife sanctuary in the north of Colombia.
A boarding school in the state of Jodhpur is helping to empower child brides through education. Child marriages are common in India, despite being illegal. The school project is called Veerni, which means “woman of strength” or “heroine”.
Children with their own guns are not a rarity in the US. The country has the world’s highest rate of gun ownership, with 121 firearms per 100 people. 14-year-old Shyanne owns a semi-automatic rifle; her parents consider that to be her good right.
