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A critical look at the cotton industry in India. Multinational companies are involved in promoting the extensive use of pesticides, many of which are banned in the western world. The bleaching and dyeing...
Investigates the effects of changes in agriculture in a backward state like Bihar. With inequality and differential access to resources, how have various social groups been affected? Rich farmers, poor...
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...
Shows how Indian peasants are forming co-operatives, and working for the common good, building dams for irrigation, introducing new farming methods, and reducing the power of the money lenders.
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...
1942: Steel factories - industrial strides forward made by India in the production of weapons. Agricultural life remains largely unchanged; primitive methods are still in use and are contrasted here with...
Pathe Intertitles - "Tea girls - not the kind who hand out the beverage with the buns, but the ladies who spend the sunlit hours in planting the seed -". "And protecting them from the great heat of the sun...
A video-based teaching package that aims to challenge the stereotype that science is solely a western activity carried out by scientists, who are usuallly white and male, in laboratories. Uses the experience...
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Festival of Monsoon in India. DESCRIPTION: The monsoon brings seasonal rain by which agricultural India lives or dies. The people celebrate with the festival of Monsoon at Jaipur....
In this BBC documentary, renowned gardener Monty Don travels in search of paradise gardens referenced in the Koran as green spaces filled with flowers and fruit where shade and water provide a safe haven...
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