Toxic chemicals - A menace to bees and farmland | DW Documentary
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Modern agriculture is designed to produce high yields. But it also depletes the soil. How do over-fertilization and pesticides impact the environment and humans? Are we poisoning our world and driving species to extinction?
Coffee: The future of coffee growing and production
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Coffee production is no longer what it was thanks to innovative growers and brave farmers. Coffee can now be grown using methods that promote biodiversity in fields, plantations and forests, while also ensuring that farmers earn more.
Young priest turns forsaken farm into paradise homestead
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Five years ago Catholic priest Johannes Schwarz left his parish to "withdraw for a few years" in the Italian Alps (in the shadow of his beloved Monte Viso). He bought an old "rustico" - stone farm building - for 20,000 euros and transformed it into his mountaintop hermitage...
50 years off-grid: architect-maker paradise amid NorCal redwoods
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In 1968, Charles Bello and his wife, Vanna Rae, moved onto 240 acres of redwood forest looking to live a simpler life off the land. They had spent their savings to purchase the land so they got to work building their home themselves.
Tiken Jah Fakoly on Youth and Agroecology
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Reggae singer and songwriter Tiken Jah Fakoly emphasises the need to sensitise the population and politicians about the importance of ecological farming to produce healthy food and stop the climate from warming. The video is in French with English subtitles.
Walter Jehne Cooling The Climate and Restoring Ecosystems with Water Restoration
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The planet is heating up rapidly and instead of having a narrow focus on carbon dioxide emissions, soil microbiologist Walter Jehne presents a holistic view on how agriculture can be a tool for restoring healthy water cycles and make use of nature's mechanism of natural air conditioning.