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  1. 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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  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. Patterns of Subsistence: The Food Producers (1994 Video)

    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Out OF Distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1999 sale: £12.75 (+VAT inc. p&p)

    Examines the emergence of societies that were based on the cultivation of plants as a method of food production, leading to the concept of land ownership.

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  4. 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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  5. Grain Story, The (1987 Video)

    Subject
    Agriculture
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    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...

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  6. Will to Win, The (1987 Video)

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

    Looks at the ‘economic miracle’ brought about in Brittany chiefly as a result of the co-operative organisation of Brittany farmers. Considers the effects of the social history of Brittany, the effects of...

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  7. Farm Woodlands (1986 Video)

    Subject
    Agriculture; Environmental science
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min.

    Six farmers in different parts of Scotland and working on different kinds of land explain why they have taken up tree planting and how it fits with their farmimg.

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  8. Farmstead, The (1982)

    Director
    Peter Mills
    Producer
    Stephanie Tennant
    Subject
    Agriculture
    Distribution
    Out of distribution, Videocassette. U-matic, VHS. col. 21 min.

    Looks at how the buildings of a farm adapt to the needs of farming in any given period or region and how they provide information about the social and economic life of the surrounding countryside.

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  9. Deer Farming (1978 Video)

    Producer
    Pat McCurry
    Subject
    Agriculture
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    The Scottish Highlands are the traditional home of the red deer, which have provided an expensive sport rather than a source of meat. Farming in these areas has been mainly restricted to sheep rearing which...

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  10. 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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