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  1. Farming, Organic or Conventional (1987 Video)

    Producer
    Pam Taylor
    Subject
    Agriculture
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

    Looks at the developments that have taken place in British agriculture over the last 50 years. Although yields have doubled, this is not without other inputs into the system, especially fertilisers and...

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  2. Synergistic Garden, The (1998)

    Subject
    Agriculture
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 30 minutes)

    A guide to no-dig, auto-fertile agriculture, based on the principles of permaculture and the techniques developed by Japanese microbiologist Masanoba Fukuoka. French farmer, Emilia Hazelip, has been...

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  3. Food Beware: The French Organic Revolution (2008)

    Director
    Jean-Paul Jaud
    Subject
    Agriculture; French studies

    The documentary begins with a visit to a small village in France, where the town’s mayor has decided to make the school lunch menu organic and locally grown. It then talks to a wide variety of people with...

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  4. Food, Health and Society (2006)

    Subject
    Agriculture; Catering
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £15.00

    Videos of four lectures given at Schumacher College as part of the course ‘Food, Health and Society’. Colin Spencer provides a taste of food in historical Britain; Tim Lang lines up the challenges facing...

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  5. Forest Gardening with Robert Hart (1999)

    Director
    Malcolm Baldwin
    Subject
    Agriculture
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 50 minutes), £14.95

    In the late 1960s Robert Hart had a vision of planting a small edible forest which could fulfil the needs of a healthy diet in beautiful, ecologically-sound surroundings. He based his ideas on tropical...

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  6. Farming with Nature: A Case Study of Successful Temperate Permaculture (2001)

    Subject
    Agriculture; Environmental science
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 35 mins), 10 euros (Ecofilm)

    A case study of successful temperate permaculture. Sepp and Veronica Holzer farm 112 acres on a south facing hillside in the Austrian Alps. There they integrate methods of agroforestry on terraces and raised...

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  7. Other Way, The (1974 Film, Video)

    Producer
    John M Mansfield
    Subject
    Development studies
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Presents the theories of Dr E F Schumacher, a fuel economist, who believes that technology in the developed world relies too heavily on finite energy resources. Describes organic farming, intermediate...

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  8. Mark Purdey and Organophosphate (2002)

    Subject
    Agriculture; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL), £20.00

    Between the late 70s and 1982 British farmers were forced by law to treat their cows for warble fly with an organophosphate called phosmet. Seeing how his own organically reared cows never developed BSE, but...

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  9. Life Running out of Control (2005)

    Subject
    Biology; Philosophy
    Distribution
    DVD (Region 2 PAL, 95 minutes), £30.00

    Problems and ethical questions arising from genetic modification of plants and animals. An exploration of the progressive and continual genetic manipulation of plants, animals and human beings. In India...

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  10. Power of Community, The: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil (2006)

    Director
    Faith Morgan
    Subject
    Agriculture; Economics; Environmental science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1, 53 minutes), $20.00

    When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990, Cuba’s economy went into a tailspin. With imports of oil cut by more than half - and food by 80 percent - people were desperate. This film tells of the hardships...

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