From: 5min.com on AOL on Wed, Dec 29 2010 2:54 PM

In part two, Claire Hope Cummings raises a number of troubling concerns that are at the heart of what threatens our future food supply. Cummings informs us, there are only about a handful of global agri-chemical companies, and they are threatening the livelihoods of farmers, limiting the range o...

From: 5min.com on AOL on Wed, Dec 29 2010 2:54 PM

Claire Hope Cummings raises a number of troubling concerns that are at the heart of what she feels threatens our future food supply.

From: 5min.com on AOL on Tue, Dec 28 2010 2:59 PM

NBC Universal’s Lauren Zalaznick discusses the primary appeal of hit Bravo shows like "Top Chef" and "The Real Housewives of Orange County." Zalaznick believes the network speaks to the zeitgeist of American culture. "Bravo inverted what people do when they're not working, who always think ...

From: 5min.com on AOL on Tue, Dec 28 2010 2:59 PM

Author John Perkins explains how you can fight for labor rights in third world countries by not buying from people who do not pay fair wages.

From: 5min.com on AOL on Tue, Dec 28 2010 2:59 PM

Author Seth Godin argues that one of the main barriers to innovation is the "lizard brain," the primitive part of the human brain adapted for survival. He explains that the lizard brain "loves being a cog in the system" because it’s safer than doing something foreign and untested.

From: 5min.com on AOL on Sun, Dec 26 2010 2:53 PM

Dr. Sylvia Gearing shares her tips on how to survive the holidays with difficult in-laws.

From: 5min.com on AOL on Fri, Dec 10 2010 2:54 AM

The micro credit loans doesn’t only help the villagers in Bangladesh to start up their business, but it is also used for paying for health care treatments.

From: 5min.com on AOL on Fri, Dec 10 2010 2:54 AM

Learn about a little boy with a fascination to Radio Machines and how his obsession to them had gotten him into trouble.

From: 5min.com on AOL on Fri, Dec 10 2010 2:54 AM

Learn about a little boy with a fascination to Radio Machines and how his obsession to them had gotten him into trouble.

From: 5min.com on AOL on Fri, Dec 10 2010 2:54 AM

Learn how Gerald Wells had become known for fixing radios and had expanded his business into Television Sets.

From: 5min.com on AOL on Fri, Dec 10 2010 2:54 AM

Learn how Gerald Wells had managed to create a Vintage Radio shop and thus had achieved his lifelong goal.

From: 5min.com on AOL on Fri, Dec 03 2010 3:25 AM

In Ethiopia, nearly two thirds of the population live in highland areas 3,000 meters above sea level. For generations, people have been subsistence farmers, depending on land for their survival.

From: 5min.com on AOL on Fri, Dec 03 2010 3:25 AM

In Brazil, 65-year-old Gabriela Silva makes a living by collecting waste paper - and she is also the sole guardian of her three granddaughters as well.

From: 5min.com on AOL on Fri, Dec 03 2010 3:25 AM

In another poor village in Sichuan Province, the men folk spend much of the year absent, looking for work. Wang Zheng Cun took out a loan to help her pig business, which was soon flourishing.

From: 5min.com on AOL on Fri, Dec 03 2010 3:25 AM

On the Altiplano, most people are Aymaran and were made to feel their language and culture was second class, because school classes were only in Spanish. All that has now changed, and classes are now in Spanish and Aymara.

From: 5min.com on AOL on Fri, Dec 03 2010 3:25 AM

In 1997 the current Bolivian government, led by President Banzer, decided to start a 'National dialogue with the people' to set out its priorities for integrated development.

From: 5min.com on AOL on Fri, Dec 03 2010 3:25 AM

In Nigeria only 3% of the parliament are women. One of them, Terri Harriman, talks about the male opposition to her election, which was at first annulled and only finally confirmed by the appeal court.

From: 5min.com on AOL on Fri, Dec 03 2010 3:25 AM

In Lithuania, violence takes a more subtle form, with economic hardship forcing many young women into the hands of unscrupulous mafia traffickers who sell women into the sex industry in Europe and the Far East.

From: 5min.com on AOL on Fri, Dec 03 2010 3:25 AM

The Phelophepa (Good Clean Health) Train travels to remote areas of South Africa bringing primary health care to impoverished rural people deprived for years from a share in their country’s wealth and health facilities.

From: 5min.com on AOL on Fri, Dec 03 2010 3:25 AM

At each stop of the Phelophepa Train, 25 community volunteers are selected to be trained in basic health care, so that expertise is left behind and a body of health care knowledge is built up in the rural communities.