Jimmy's global harvest. Australia

Publication/Creation:: Glasgow, Scotland : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), 2010
Format:: Video or Visual Material

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Full Title:: Jimmy's global harvest. Australia / produced and directed by Nat Sharman
Series Titles:: Academic Video Online

Additional Author/Creators:: Sharman, Nat
Doherty, Jimmy, 1975-
British Broadcasting Corporation

Genre:: Documentary films
Subjects:: Agriculture--Australia
Economic geography
Food
Land use
Water-supply
Agriculture
Australia

Summary:: Jimmy Doherty sets out to discover if the world's farmers will be able to feed us in the future. Demand for food is expected to double within the next 40 years. Yet we can only grow food on four per cent of the earth's surface, the climate is changing and resources like water and fuel are under threat. Jimmy meets the men and women who claim to have new techniques and new technologies that will help meet these challenges. Jimmy visits the wheat belt of Western Australia to see if farmers can overcome the global problem of soil salinity. He heads deep into the outback to catch wild animals, and takes a trip to the Murray-Darling river basin to see if vineyards can still produce good wine with only half as much water.
Language:: English
Language Note:: In English.
Original language in English.
Physical Type/Description:: 1 online resource (51 min.)
General Note:: Title from resource description page (viewed December 09, 2014).
Additional Physical Form:: Previously released as DVD.