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In this program, Jimmy Doherty goes to Brazil, where he discovers how to turn poisoned land into a powerhouse of world food production, joins sugarcane cutters to see how the country has replaced h...
In this program, Jimmy Doherty goes to Brazil, where he discovers how to turn poisoned land into a powerhouse of world food production, joins sugarcane cutters to see how the country has replaced half of its gasoline use with biofuel, and finds a way to save caimans from poachers. In the Amazon, Jimmy meets an unlikely cattle rancher who claims he can save the rain forest.
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- Creator
- BBC Worldwide Ltd
- Format
- Videos, Slides, Films
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York, N.Y. : Films Media Group, [2013], c2009
- Series
- Physical Details
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- 1 streaming video file (50 min.) : sd., col
- digital
- data file
- OCLC
- ocn844440009
- Access requires authentication through Films on Demand.
- Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Films Media Group on March 15, 2013.
- Films on Demand is distributed by Films Media Group for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
- Mode of access: Internet.
- System requirements: FOD playback platform.
- Feeding the World (2:00) -- Cultivating the Savannah (2:42) -- Large Scale Soy Production (4:39) -- Using Technology in Farming (3:19) -- Monoculture Farming (1:34) -- Ethanol Production (3:24) -- Harvesting Sugar for Ethanol (4:43) -- Producing Biofuel (4:33) -- Conservation Farming in Brazil (8:14) -- Agriculture Protecting the Environment (1:22) -- Amazon Cattle Ranching (2:04) -- Life on the Frontier (3:45) -- Carbon Credit Market (3:09) -- Environmental and Economic Solutions (3:47) -- Balancing Farming and Nature (1:21) -- Credits: Brazil: Jimmy's Global Harvest (0:41)