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The Buzz on Pollination: How Honey Bees Power Agriculture
This segment explores the vital role of honey bees in pollinating a wide variety of foods and producing honey. It highlights the threats to bee populations, known as the Four P’s: pesticides, pests, pathogens, and poor nutrition....
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Raiders of the Lost Hive - Part 1
In this animated adventure, children explore the world of honey bees alongside characters parodying Indiana Jones and The Terminator. The villain, JP Rothbone, introduces a robotic pollinator to replace disappearing bees, threatening...
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Pesticides, Pests, and Pollinators: A Delicate Balance
This segment examines how pesticides used in agriculture to combat pests like aphids can harm honey bees, essential for pollination. It explains the dilemma farmers face: needing to protect crops while preserving beneficial insects...
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Julius Caesar 3.2 Discussion: Rome, the First Mega City
This video highlights the dramatic population growth of ancient Rome, which reached one million inhabitants due to massive rural-to-urban migration and the influx of cheap grain from Egypt. This demographic explosion transformed Rome...
Great Big Story
Contadini sommersi dai debiti, ma Internet li aiuta
'Farmer friend' è un sito lanciato da due fratelli per scongiurare l'alto tasso di sucidi tra i produttori e sembra stia funzionando...
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Revolutionizing Biofuel Production: A Look at Argentina's Biodiesel Innovation
In the heart of Argentina, engineer Edmundo di Ferrari has revolutionized biofuel production with a cost-effective plant using soybeans. His innovative approach produces biodiesel at half the cost of conventional diesel, offering farmers...
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Empowering Farmers Through Organic Microbial Farming in the Philippines
The video highlights Gil Karandang's efforts to promote organic farming in the Philippines through the use of microorganisms. By conducting seminars and showcasing the benefits of microbial components in improving soil quality and...
Wonderscape
Conserving the Tropical Rainforest: Our Collective Responsibility
This video emphasizes the critical need for global cooperation in saving tropical rainforests, outlining actions individuals and organizations can take. It discusses sustainable farming, fair trade, recycling, and consumer activism as...
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Understanding Organic Produce and the Benefits of Fresh Fruits and Vegetables
Learn about the benefits of organic fruits and vegetables and why they are important for a healthy diet. Discover the difference between organic and non-organic produce, and the potential advantages of choosing organic options. Explore...
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Transforming Agriculture: Bio Gas Power Plants and Renewable Energy in Holsworthy
This video highlights the innovative use of renewable energy in the form of a bio-gas power station fueled by livestock waste. Farmers in the Holsworthy area of England are turning their animal waste into electricity, reducing pollution,...
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Combatting the Mikania Mikrantha Weed: A Natural Solution for India's Tea Crop
This video highlights the threat posed by Mikania Mikrantha, a fast-growing weed that is suffocating India's tea crop. To combat this issue, plant scientists have developed a natural alternative to herbicides - a fungus or rust that...
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Crop X: Using NASA Technology to Optimize Potato Farming and Marketing Decisions
Crop X is a small company that uses NASA image processing technology to help farmers in the Columbia Basin region of Oregon make informed marketing decisions. By analyzing satellite images, Crop X can count the number of potato fields...
Financial Times
How farmers can cut emissions
FT Climate Capital - Agriculture and food account for about a quarter of all climate change-inducing greenhouse gas emissions. And with production methods becoming increasingly intensive, farmers are under scrutiny like never before. Now...
Financial Times
Growing calls for crop diversity
FT Food Revolution - Mass agriculture has embraced uniform, monoculture crops that can produce greater yields, but can also be more susceptible to disease. Now researchers and some growers are warning that diversity must be encouraged,...
Financial Times
Water: too precious to be just another commodity?
FT Rethink - Water is life, but in a warming world it’s in ever shorter supply. California and Australia have active markets allowing investors to bet on its fluctuating cost. The FT’s Gill Plimmer explores whether water really is just...
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GCSE Biology - Factors Affecting the Rate of Photosynthesis #49
The rate of photosynthesis is affected by light intensity, temperature, carbon dioxide concentrations, and chlorophyll. In this video we explore exactly how, and also how farmers can use this knowledge to increase the yields of their crops.
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GCSE Maths - What Does Inversely Proportional Mean? #91
This video covers: - What inverse proportion or inversely proportional means - What the relationship looks like on a graph - What the relationship looks like in an equation This video is suitable for maths courses around the world. KS3 -...
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Spanish Exploration in the Southeast
Dr. Forrester examines the exploration and colonization of Florida and the Southeast as well as the explorers who sailed there.
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Irrigating Water
Dr. Forrester teaches about various water irrigation systems and how they provide water to areas that may not have enough water. She also explains how water irrigation systems provide a way for farmers to water crops.
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Environmental Impact of Agriculture
Dr. Forester discusses the importance of agriculture and teaches the students about the effects of pesticides. She also explains how the organic food industry helps the ecosystem.
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From the Forest to the Plains
Dr. Forester explores the tropical rainforest, grasslands, taiga, marine, and freshwater biomes.
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How 8,000 Food Forests Grew Africa's Great Green Wall
Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison journeys to Senegal to see a movement of forest gardens which are contributing to Africa's Great Green Wall. Andrew accompanies the organization Planet Wild to visit the excellent work of Trees for...
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GENIUS Water Engineering Restored
Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison journeys to South India to film the ancient Chola Dynasty water management system of lakes and canals that has been restored in the City of Coimbatore by the Coimbatore Lakes Protection...
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India's Water Revolution #5: Permaculture Rescue for Dying Farmland
Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison journeys to India to film the epic work of Aranya Agricultural Alternatives. We tour the village of Ellarthi, in Andhra Pradesh, where the Andhra Pradesh Drought Mitigation Project has saved dying...