An Irish farmer, forester and fisherman experience life in some of the most challenging conditions on earth, as they find out if they have what it takes to live off the land and sea in a developing country. Can they cope with the grueling day-to-day reality of subsistence living and the struggle for survival and what might they learn?
Episode One
Episode one sees Cork fisherman, Johnny Walsh catapulted onto a wooden boat of the West Coast of Africa in overexploited Gambian fishing waters. Here he navigates the precarious food supply of the community of Tanji and other coastal Gambian communities whose dwindling fish stocks forces them to take perilous sea journeys to escape to Europe and beyond.
