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PLANEAT is the story of three men’s life-long search for a diet, which is good for our health, good for the environment and good for the future of the planet. With an additional cast of pioneering chefs...
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...
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...
For ten years, mysterious circles have been appearing in fields in Southern England. Up till now, no-one has managed to come up with an accepted explanation. The programme examines the case for the competing...
Looks at the potential benefits of coppicing as an energy source in the UK. For farmers, fuel wood is simple and cheap to produce while also being renewable and environmentally friendly. Outlines the steps...
shows what happens to a chicken from its arrival in the slaughterhouse until it emerges neatly packaged for the supermarket.
The combine harvester is of crucial importance to the cereal farmer. Begins with a rare look at harvesting with a tractor-driven binder. Within 20 years this had become obselete, and the film looks at the...
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...
Looks in detail at the production of grain from farmer to consumer. Studies the relationship between national and international food policies and compares the grain production systems in the industrialised...
At the Plant Breeding Institute in Cambridge, traditional methods are being used to produce new winter wheats. The stages in this time-consuming process, from the crossing of likely parental types and the...
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