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Series
Pub. Date
[2013], c2009
Language
English
Description
Kenya, a country that struggles to feed its population, is Jimmy Doherty's destination in this program. He meets farmers who use ingenious new ways to combat pests, and scientists who produce bananas in a lab. As he travels across the country, Jimmy picks roses, milks camels, and discovers how Maasai sheep could save farmers around the world billions of dollars. But will Kenya ever be able to feed itself?
Series
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Farming in North America has become a "cash cow" for a handful of multinational corporations at the cost of the environment and rural culture. This program examines the growth of corporate factory agriculture, an industry that is capable of generating severe environmental, social, and cultural repercussions. Environmental activists and lawyers in North Carolina stress the need for a functional high-tech wastewater treatment plant to stop the pollution...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Farmers and farming face new challenges. Many factors have transformed this primary industry in recent decades, including changing political and economic climates and technology-driven changes in many farming methods. One consequence of changing farming methods is the decline of the importance of agriculture to the national economy. This film looks at the future of farming in the UK and begins by asking the question: is UK farming in crisis? A range...
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Farmer Jane profiles 30 women in the sustainable food industry, describing their agriculture and business models and illustrating the amazing changes they are making in how we connect with food. These advocates for creating a more holistic and nurturing food and agriculture system also answer questions on starting a community-supported agriculture (CSA) program, how to get involved in policy at local and national levels, and how to address the different...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A Thousand Suns tells the story of the Gamo Highlands of the African Rift Valley and the unique worldview held by the people of the region. This isolated area has remained remarkably intact both biologically and culturally. It is one of the most densely populated rural regions of Africa yet its people have been farming sustainably for 10,000 years. Shot in Ethiopia, New York and Kenya, the film explores the modern world's untenable sense of separation...
9) Eco-farming
Pub. Date
[2012], c2009
Language
English
Description
Much of the farmland in Australia has been environmentally degraded. In this video clip, discover how EcoTender, a land management plan being tested by the Victorian government, is combining science and economics to fix the damaged Australian farmland.
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
A globe-trotting exposé of our modern agricultural system. From struggling fishermen and long-distance truckers, to agronomists and multi-national corporate executives. Presents a sobering portrait of the people who define the contemporary food industry, where the constant pursuit of profit takes precedence over the health of the workers, the hungry, and the environment. Reveals the distressing problems of the of the industrialized world food system...
11) Big tractor
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Farmer uses his tractor, Ol' Partner, to do all of his important farm chores, including planting, cultivating, and harvesting.
Pub. Date
[2012], c2007
Language
English
Description
Farmer and horse-breeder Peter Andrews has been described as everything from a crackpot to a visionary. Learn all about his controversial theory of land management called natural sequence farming in this video clip. The agricultural method attempts to rebuild what Andrew sees as the natural systems that originally operated within the Australian landscape, and this clip reveals how Andrews' ideas stand up to the scrutiny of environmental scientists....
18) The toy farmer
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A toy farmer on a tractor that Jed finds in the attic transforms his bedroom into a real farm, where a vine grows and produces one enormous pumpkin. In the attic, Jed finds an old toy tractor with a miniature farmer in the driver's seat. It seems just like any other toy - but then amazing things happen. First, Jed's bedroom carpet begins to sprout tiny green shoots. Then a pumpkin appears on a vine. It grows and grows, until it is big enough to win...
19) Growing food in a hotter, drier land: lessons from desert farmers on adapting to climate uncertainty
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Arick Baker was cleaning out a huge corn bin on his family's Iowa farm, while his Dad hauled away a truckload of grain. That's when the unthinkable happened- a chunk of rotten corn gave way, burying Arick beneath several feet of suffocating corn. This program is a case study of farm safety for students of agriculture.
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