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The Farming World Episodes

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    Protecting Livestock from Plant Poisons

    How genetically engineered bacteria could protect livestock from acacia poison

  2. EU Aid System: In Need of Reform?

    EU aid system is criticised for bad management and wasting money

  3. The Pesticide Problem

    Use of chemical insecticides is causing more problems than gains in many countries

  4. Tobacco: a Demanding and Risky Crop

    Why tobacco isn't always profitable for the small farmers of central and eastern Africa

  5. Something Different for Christmas

    Farmers round the world doing something a little different at Christmas time

  6. In Praise of Urban Farmers

    Celebrating the 200 million urban farmers worldwide who help feed 700 million people

  7. Agrochemical Residues in Our Food

    Testing and regulating fertiliser, hormone and other chemical residues in farm produce

  8. Aids Crisis in Rural Uganda

    How farming communities are suffering with the Aids epidemic

  9. Royal Smithfield Show: Farming Comes to London

    Livestock and new farming developments at the Royal Smithfield Show, London

  10. Global Exodus from Rural to Urban Areas

    Better quality of life for farmers will combat global threat of urbanization

  11. Central America's Small-holders

    How small-scale farmers struggle to survive in Panama and Costa Rica

  12. Agricultural Scientist Thomas Hargrove Kidnapped in Colombia

    CIAT researcher Thomas Hargrove is missing, presumed kidnapped, in Colombia

  13. Nitrogen-Fixing Rice Varieties

    New nitrogen-fixing rice varieties mean greater yields with less fertilzers

  14. Turkey's GAP Project

    Turkey's 22-dam GAP project will generating electricity and provide irrigation

  15. Water: Our Most Precious Resource

    Water for Life is the theme of UN Food Day this week

  16. Can Multiple-Crop Canopies Work?

    Stopping plants' shade-avoidance response might be the secret of multiple-crop canopies

  17. Albania's Farming Revolution

    From state farms to independent farmers, Albania's agricultural revolution of the 1990s

  18. Carbon Capture in Colombia

    How carbon dioxide is being "captured" by new plantings on Colombian savannah

  19. Will Fish Farming Succeed in Africa?

    Can fish farms make up the shortfall of fish in Africa?

  20. Africa's Food Crisis

    'Political stabilities are not built on empty stomachs,' says Norman Borlaug

  21. Can the Cassava Mosaic Virus Be Stopped?

    The cassava mosaic virus is causing crop loss and food shortages in eastern Africa

  22. An End to Endoparasites?

    Ways of eradicating livestock endoparasites in African countries with no access to drugs

  23. Saving the Soil of Guatemala

    Solving problems of soil erosion and irrigation in Guatemala

  24. Camels for the Nomads of Northern Kenya

    Farm-Africa's camel team travels with the nomadic pasturalists in Northern Kenya

  25. Agricultural Cost of War in Rwanda

    Crops with no one to harvest them, lost varieties of staple foods - the legacy of war

  26. Radical Guide to the World Food System

    First understand the system and then the necessary changes become obvious, says author

  27. Global Cereal Harvest Will Not Be Enough

    Why an increase of 3% in the global cereal harvest is not enough to alleviate famine

  28. Poultry and Science at the Royal Agricultural Show

    Latest farming developments, crops and poultry at the Royal Agricultural Show

  29. Gambia's President Opens the Royal Agricultural Show

    Sir Dawda Jawara, President of the Gambia, opens the Royal Agricultural Show in the UK

  30. Vietnam: Rice Producer

    Vietnam is now the third largest exporter of rice but farmers must also feed themselves

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