Multimedia Collection
Land of Plenty, Land of Want
(Journey To Planet Earth series)
VHS
57 minutes
QH541.5 .S7 R51 1999 v.3
Land of Plenty, Land of Want investigates a fundamental dilemma facing farmers throughout the world: how to feed Earth's growing population without endangering the environment.
- Zimbabwe: Affected by climate change and the vestiges of colonial rule, small scale farmers on marginal lands struggle to survive a drought.
- France: The remote mountain villages of central France suffer the loss of farmers fleeing to places like Brittany where intensive agriculture has polluted the water and affected the local fisheries.
- China: An agricultural revolution has enabled farmers to feed the world's most populous nation but an industrial boom is rapidly displacing agricultural land, forcing farmers to work the soil more intensively, threatening environmental damage.
- United States: In Iowa, farmers use high technology to dramatically increase yields, while, in Pennsylvania, no-till farming preserves some of the richest topsoil in the world.
Produced by Marilyn Weiner. A production of Scrrenscope Inc. in association with South Carolina Educational Television
Sponsored by NASA, W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Honda, The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, Continental,
The World Bank, USDA Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education and The Rockefeller Foundation.
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