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Feeding Soils to Grow Hungry Crops

How do today's farmers improve their crop yields? One school of thought is to go high-tech and use agricultural technologies designed to improve efficiencies and yields. See the role that soil condition plays in gaining those high yields.

How to Save Our Planet

It’s simple. Sir David Attenborough explains how humans can take charge of our future and save our planet.

How To Save Our Forests and Rewild our Planet

Sir David Attenborough explains how we can protect our forests and allow them to recover by drawing on their natural resilience and improve our own practices to benefit these important ecosystems.

How to Save Our Grasslands

Find out from Sir David Attenborough how changing the way we eat and a revolution in farming can save our planet’s wild grasslands.

How to Save Our Jungles

How can we save our jungles? Find out from Sir David Attenborough why farmers and governments have a key role to play.

Next Gen Farming Without Soil and 90% Less Water | GRATEFUL

Aeroponics grows fruits and vegetables faster, cheaper and better.

How To Save Our Coastal Seas

Sir David Attenborough explains: How to catch more fish, feed more people and restore our coastal seas.

2040

Explore what the world would look like by the year 2040 if we embraced the best solutions already available to improve our planet and shifted them into the mainstream.

Growing Cities

From rooftop farmers to backyard beekeepers, Americans are growing food like never before. Growing Cities tells the inspiring stories of these intrepid urban farmers, innovators, and everyday city-dwellers who are challenging the way the USA grows and distributes its food. From those growing food in backyards to make ends meet, to educators teaching kids to eat healthier, viewers discover urban farmers are harvesting a whole lot more than simply good food.

Magic Harvest

Many suburbs are build on former farmland. In the suburbs of Adelaide, locals arm themselves with garden forks and kitchen knives to put that land to good use, pioneering a backyard revolution one square metre at a time. It's an idea as simple as it is radical as it is inspirational... Inspired by Lolo Houbein's One Magic Square concept and under the guidance of grower Tori Moreton, in this inspiring film residents of Adelaide's southern suburbs create a food plot in one square metre of their own gardens, harvesting it through the seasons and sharing the bounty in their community.

Farming for the Future

Earthrise looks at some innovative methods of sustainable farming and food production as climate change intensifies.

Changing Paradigms | Regenerative Agriculture: a Solution to Our Global Crisis? | Full Documentary

“Changing Paradigms” explores the power of regenerative agriculture in improving the natural environment, human health, and reliable profit in sheep farming. We, as humans, have an innate attraction to the natural world. But, the way we currently interact with the environment is unsustainable and causing a disconnect with nature. We have one generation, our generation, to take action and change the paradigm.

What is Regenerative Agriculture?

Regenerative agriculture is an effective way to restore biodiversity and stabilize the climate, but what exactly is it? This video explores three different regenerative practices that have great potential both in food production and in healing the land.

The Futuristic Farms That Will Feed the World | Freethink | Future of Food

How efficient farming in the Netherlands is producing 20 times more food with 1/4 the water and the most sustainable agriculture systems in the world. It's the first episode of Freethink's The Future of Food.

Vertical Farm Diagram

"Vertical Farms" by Curbed SF is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

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