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  1. 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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  2. Risky Business: Biotechnology and Agriculture (1996 Video)

    Subject
    Agriculture; Science
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 24 min., 1998 hire: £10.00 (+p&p +VAT) 1998 sale: £40.00 (+p&p +VAT)

    In the light of genetically engineered plants and animals, chemically treated food crops and xenotransplantation, the programme aims stimulate discussion about the effects of these new technologies on...

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  3. Aliens in the Field (2005)

    Subject
    Agriculture; Development studies
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 23 minutes), £30.00

    Programme examining the benefits and drawbacks of using genetically modified crops in the developing world. India’s farmers have been attracted by claims of higher yields, while Zambia refused desperately...

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  4. Guess What’s Coming to Dinner? (1990 Video)

    Producer
    Tessa Livingstone
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at attempts to create food products through biotechnology. Genetic engineers claim that food shortages in the developing countries could be overcome by transferring genes from plants which can survive...

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  5. Trees of Plenty (1986 Film, Video)

    Director
    Neil McKee
    Subject
    Agriculture; Development studies; Environmental science
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    In Nepal, the Central American rain forests of Costa Rica and in Nigeria, slash-and-burn farming methods are showing long-term harmful effects. Where trees have been cleared the top soil becomes eroded and...

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  6. Kenyan Small Farmer, The (1978 Video)

    Producer
    Pam Taylor
    Subject
    Agriculture; Development studies
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Twenty years ago some of the more arid regions of Kenya were populated by elephants and other wild animals. Now, because of an evergrowing human population, these poor agricultural lands have to be...

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  7. Agrofuels: Starving People, Fuelling Greed (2012)

    Director
    Matt Feinstein; Loren Feinstein
    Subject
    Anthropology; Development studies; Environmental science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 28 minutes), $125

    An account of the downside of alternative, food-based fuel sources. The film explores agrofuels and monocrops, looking at how the increasingly common practice of diverting food crops to the industrial...

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  8. Crops and Robbers (1986)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 15 minutes), £40.00

    This enjoyable and entertaining film tells the history of the world in 15 minutes. We see an animated game of chance played with dice, and ships sailing for gold, across continents and down the centuries...

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  9. Nitrogen Fixation by Legumes (1972 Video)

    Subject
    Agriculture; Biology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 15 min., 1996 sale: £20.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    With the increasing demand for new and improved pastures and high protein food crops, research is seeking to develop better strains of nodulated legumes both for temperate and tropical agriculture. The...

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  10. Wartime Winter and Summer, A (2006)

    Subject
    Agriculture; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 240 minutes), £24.95

    When the Second World War broke out Britain faced much more than a military crisis. Two-thirds of our food was imported, but these imports were immediately halted by the German blockade. If Britain was not...

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