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Tech Tools in Farming and Agriculture (2011)

Subject

Agriculture

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 23 minutes), £49.00 (DVD), £20.00 (1 Year Digital Licence), £49.00 (3 Year Digital Licence)

This film looks at new techniques in agriculture, covering new mechanical tools as well as considering genetically modified crops and turning waste products into biofuel.

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Global Gardener (1996)

Subject

Agriculture

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 120 minutes), £21.95

For nearly two decades Bill Mollison has travelled the globe spreading the word about permaculture (permanent agriculture), the method of sustainable agriculture that he devised. Permaculture weaves together...

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Cane Toads (1987 Video)

Subject

Agriculture; Biology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 46 min.

Tongue-in-cheek study of cane toads, originally imported into Queensland in 1935 from Hawaii to save the sugar crop from destruction by the greyback beetle. The toads bred rapidly and became an agricultural...

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Food and Agriculture (2000 Video)

aka: Ethical Implications of Agricultural Genetics, The

Subject

Agriculture; Biology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 24 min., 2000 sale: £40.00 (+VAT +p&p)

A compilation of interviews examining key ethical issues related to new genetic technologies, including the question of regulation, the need for genetic foods to help feed the world, the labelling of...

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Gene Technology in Agriculture (1999 Video)

Subject

Agriculture

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 22 min., 2000 sale: £40.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Part 2 in the Hene Technology series explores technologies designed to improve tomatoes and potatoes and debates the issues of genetically modified food safety, environmental risk and labelling. Looks at how...

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Russia: Life Under Stalin (1999 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 20 min., 1999 sale: £47.00 (inc. VAT +p&p)

Uses archive footage and sound recordings to explore Russian life under Stalin. Covers: Stalin’s leadership struggle with Trotsky and rise to power; collectivisation of agriculture and industrialisation;...

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Last Plague, The: Fighting Influenza (1999 Video)

Subject

Biology; Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 27 min., 2004 sale: £35.00 (+VAT inc. p&p)

Examines the biology of the influenza virus, how it infects humans and is fought by the human immune system, and how it evolves new strains to risk further pandemics.

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Life Under Stalin (1999 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 20 min., 2006 sale: £39.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Uses archive footage and sound recordings to explore Russian life under Josef Stalin. Covers: Stalin’s leadership struggle with Trotsky and his rise to power; the collectivisation of agriculture and...

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Harvesting Water: The Permaculture Way (2007)

Subject

Agriculture; Environmental science

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 90 minutes), £29.95

Geoff Lawton designs and builds a dam and swale system on a client’s small acre farm. Every detail is covered as Geoff and his students build a water harvesting system using the design principles of...

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Gene Technology Part 1 (1999 Video)

Subject

Agriculture; Biology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 21 min., 2000 sale: £40.00 (+VAT +p&p) each

Explores the history of our understanding of genetics from Mendel’s observations to Watson and Crick’s discovery of DNA. Outlines the function of DNA, chromosomes, genes and protein replication, and...

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