Kalmykia – Europe’s Only Buddhist Region
Welcome to Europe's only Buddhist Region - Kalmykia. Some 160,000 Buddhists live here. Kalmykia is an autonomous republic of the Russian Federation, located between the Caucasus and the Caspian Sea.…
Organic farming as a career choice: Italy’s young farmers | DW Documentary
Astonishing new data from the Italian farmers' association: More and more young people are moving away from cities to rural areas in order to work in farming. For many, it’s…
Reviving Swiss mountain communities – Is there a future for these isolated regions? | DW Documentary
Only about 650 people live year-round in the Onsernone Valley in Switzerland. Surrounded by picturesque but rugged nature, life here is not easy for the inhabitants. And one of the…
New life for Italy’s ghost towns | DW Documentary
In 1983, Rossella Aquilanti moved to the abandoned village of Pentedattilo, in southern Italy. Today she is 63 years old and needs help with her farm. She met Maka Tounkara…