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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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Recent additions to the BUFVC Moving Image Gateway

Date

6 Nov 2013, 12:13

Author

Andrew Ormsby

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The BUFVC Moving Image Gateway includes over 1,450 websites relating to video, multimedia and sound materials. These have been subdivided into   over 40 subject areas. To suggest new entries or ...

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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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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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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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David V Monsanto (2010)

Subject

Agriculture; Biology; Law

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 65 minutes), £50.00

One farmer’s battle with Monsanto who pollute his crops with G.M. seeds and then make impossible demands. Imagine that a storm blows across your farm and that genetically-manipulated seeds are now in your...

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Fifty Video Clips of Fungal Diseases of Cereals

Subject

Agriculture; Biology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (DVD-ROM), £328.00

This collection of fifty video clips covers many of the ways in which fungal parasites interact with their plant hosts . The clips may be used to teach details of specific diseases of cereal crops, but...

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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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World According to Monsanto, The (2009)

aka: Monde Selon Monsanto, Le

Director

Marie-Monique Robin

Subject

Agriculture; Business studies; Environmental science

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 109 minutes), 14.99 euros

Present in forty-six countries, Monsanto has become the world leader in genetically modified crops, as well as becoming one of the most controversial companies in industrial history. Since its foundation in...

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Crown of the Year, The (2003)

Subject

Agriculture

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 60 minutes), £15.99

Four wartime farming films showing the four seasons in 1941 and 1942. The first part shows winter on Upton Manor Farm, Uploders, Dorset. The second part shows spring sowing and rolling on a farm at...

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