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Agricultural Studies
Product Highlights : Agricultural Studies
Hybrid: One Man's Passion for Corn (2002)
The Miracle of Agriculture: Growing a Sustainable Future
Agricultural Studies And Developing Countries
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 | A Feast Amid Famine: The World Food Paradox Winner of the 1991 First Place Documentary Award from Agricultural Communicators in Education, "A Feast Amid Famine" confronts the most startling contradiction facing modern food production. While 2,000 people die of starvation every hour, mountains of surplus food go to waste. Often donations of food to needy countries make… | $89.00ex GST
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 | A Fragile Paradise: The Environmental Challenge of Tropical America Why is the well-being of millions of poor farmers in Central and South America crucial to the future of tropical rain forests, and our global environment? Can farmers around the world learn to produce food without destroying the very land that feeds them? Does science hold the key to settling… | $89.00ex GST
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| A Genetic Odyssey in Rice: The Saga of the Carolina Sisters and Turipana 7 Carolina Gold. A ship from Madagascar brought the legendary rice variety to the New World in 1681. Carolina Gold and her sister Carolina White made fortunes on the vast rice plantations of the Old South. But that culture depended on the skilled labor of black slaves, so the Carolina sisters… | $89.00ex GST
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 | Agricultural Studies And Developing Countries This program looks at the many uses of cassava and how it is helping the Cameroon economy. It then visits Bolivia and examines the ancient 'sukakollus' cultivation system which is being used again today. The program concludes with a look at the effect of world markets on the bean industry… | $150.00ex GST
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 | Bintu and Her New African Rice: A Genetic Bridge to Food Security and Biodiversity West Africa is one of the poorest regions on earth, a place where hand-to-mouth agriculture is a matter of survival. Bintu is typical of an estimated 20 million rice farmers in West Africa. By far, most are women. WARDA, the West Africa Rice Development Association, is dedicated to helping farmers… | $89.00ex GST
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 | Family Fortunes - The Manifold Family The Manifolds is the classic tale of a family that had the good fortune of being in the right place at the right time.... and what's befallen them since. Originally small-time farmers from the English county of Cheshire, the Manifolds packed their bags in the 1820s to try their luck… | $79.00ex GST
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 | Food for Tomorrow: Critical Issues in Global Agriculture Predictions are that by the year 2025 the world's population will double. That means agriculture will have to find ways to feed twice as many people as it does today. But can we feed the earth without destroying it? "Food for Tomorrow" explores the core issues: Sustainability, Soil Fertility, Water… | $89.00ex GST
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| Food Policy in the Dynamics of Global Agriculture Agricultural economists have come to realize that in the world of global trade, government policies have as significant an impact on food production as agronomic practices. "Food Policy" examines two nations where fundamental changes in food policy have brought about dramatic improvements in food production. In Pakistan, government policies toward… | $89.00ex GST
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 | Homo Toxicus Everyday, tons of chemicals are released into the environment, without anyone ever knowing how toxic they are and their long term effect on living organisms. Some of them find their way into our bodies and into the foetuses of mothers. In a hard-hitting investigation, carried out with intelligence and… | $284.00ex GST
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 | Hybrid: One Man's Passion for Corn (2002) In a rather unusual form, where animations of crawling and mating corncobs alternate with meditative nature scenes, Hybrid tells the story of one mans obsession for hybrid corn. Using dry Midwestern wit, the film describes the sexuality of corn and delves deep into one family's complex relationships with an eccentric… | $314.00ex GST
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 | Hybrid: One Man's Passion for Corn (2002) In a rather unusual form, where animations of crawling and mating corncobs alternate with meditative nature scenes, Hybrid tells the story of one mans obsession for hybrid corn. Using dry Midwestern wit, the film describes the sexuality of corn and delves deep into one family's complex relationships with an eccentric… | $269.00ex GST
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 | Livestock Raising Livestock raising occupies an outstanding place within the primary sector including all activities related to exploiting natural resources. This episode looks back to 6000 years ago when the so-called Neolithic revolution took place in Mesopotamia. Man ceased being nomadic and settled down in villages. These small villages grew into towns… | $90.00ex GST
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