The Farming World Episodes Episode guide
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What Happens after the Floods?
How do farmers begin to recover after the floods in Mozambique and India?
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Feeling the Benefits of Herbal Extracts
Medicinal herbal extracts are the subject of the last edition of The Farming World
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Oman's Salt Water Problem
How the use of motorised pumps is making groundwater more salty in Oman
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The Urban Farmers taking over Dehli
Champions of urban agriculture transforming Dehli homes, rooftops and even the prison
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Re-thinking Agricultural Development
So many farmers are so deperately poor because donor countries don't know how to help them
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Could Going Green Grow more Food?
Strategies for getting more food from less space with greater regard for the enviorment
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How to Succeed in Sugar Processing
Sugar manufacture in the UK at a time of overproduction and low prices elsewhere
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Farming Relationships at Work
Teamwork is at the heart of farming: husbands and wives, families, neighbours far and wide
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Giving Seeds a Head Start
Helping seeds of the versatile carob tree germinate and survive in harsh conditions
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How Farmers find their Markets
Different trading decisions made by farmers in east Africa and the Caribbean
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Why are Farmers Leaving the Land?
Why is farming globally losing its skilled workforce? Reports from India and north America
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The Biotechnology Debate
Is biotechnology safe? Does it actually deliver? How should it be regulated?
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Chocolate: from Cocoa Bean to Bar
From cocoa bean to chocolate bar: what exactly goes on inside a chocolate factory?
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Online Food Safety Database Launches
Online database of acceptable levels of contaminants in food, sponsored by FAO and IAEA
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Farming close to Nature
Making a living from wild plants and learning how to farm them in Cameroon
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First FAO report on Global Food Insecurity
UN report on global food insecurity offers some hope and exposes old patterns
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Re-use and Recycle: Farmers' Watchwords
Recycling dangerous plastic into beautiful and useful objects in Burkina Faso
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Weeds on the Agenda in Brighton
Why the Brighton Crop Protection Conference dedicated its entire programme to weeds
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Tanzanian Women win Equal Land Rights
Tanzanian women now have equal land rights but explaining this to villagers comes next
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Farming in Bhutan
Bhutan's apple growers need to start grading fruit in order to get better prices
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Multicultural Urban Farming in Britain
A new generation of Britons are digging for success on their allotments
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Red Tilapia from Scotland
Tilapia breeding programme at the Institue of Aquaculture in Scotland
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WTO sows Seeds of Dissent
What does the TRIPS agreement mean to farmers
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Kosovan Farmers Return to their Land
Helping Kosovan farmers who are returning to rebuild their lives and farms after the war
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Nothing simple about the Potato
Potatoes are a very technically challenging crop to grow anywhere in the world
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Seed: our most Precious Asset
World Seed Conference discusses this first and most critical element in the food chain
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Nicaragua still suffering one year after Hurricane Mitch
Has Nicaraguan agriculture recovered from the devastation of Hurricane Mitch a year ago?
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Maize Genes and 'soft' Biotechnology
Some of the 'soft' biotechnology research that everyone can access
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Mixing it up: a Biodiverse Harvest
It's a biodiverse harvest at an agroforestry research farm in England