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  1. Flatworms (1992 Video)

    Producer
    Bob Thorpe
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min., 2000 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    A New Zealand flatworm that eats earthworms was carried to Northern Ireland and spread from there to Scotland and Denmark. Its predations cause a loss of soil fertility and make it a threat to agriculture;...

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  2. Potatoes (1994 Video)

    Director
    Suzanne Campbell-Jones
    Producer
    Bob Thorpe
    Subject
    Agriculture
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min., 2000 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Notes the importance of potatoes in the human diet and the world economy, and looks at how scientists are using genetically engineering better, sweeter, and disease-resistant crops.

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  3. Plant Factory (1994 Video)

    Producer
    Bob Thorpe
    Subject
    Agriculture
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min., 2000 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at oilseed rape, which has become a major crop in England, and discusses its many uses. Genetic engineers hybridise it with alien species and materials, to produce plastics, oil and foodstuffs.

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  4. Rooted in Science (1995 Video)

    Subject
    Agriculture
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 2000 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

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  5. Seeds of Change (1999 Video)

    Subject
    Agriculture
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min., 2000 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at solutions for the crisis in agriculture that is affecting north-east Brazil, where rain forests have been destroyed, slash-and-burn farming practices have degraded soil structures, and drought leads...

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  6. Non-Food Crops (1995 Video)

    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min., 2000 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    With a surplus of agricultural produce in Europe resulting from scientific intervention, land has set aside and made available for new non-food crops: timber, biomass, oil seeds and plants that can be turned...

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  7. Agribusiness (1992 Video)

    Subject
    Agriculture
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 2000 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at a applications of genetic science in cereal, vegetable and pig farming. Explains the process of breeding improved disease-resistant wheat for bread-making, and shows the growth and storage of...

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  8. Culture of Cod, The (1998 Video)

    Subject
    Agriculture
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min., 2000 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    The Atlantic cod has been overfished and the size of catches is now strictly controlled. New techniques have been developed to make the farming of sea fish such as the cod cost-effective. Shows how the fish...

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