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Showing 1 - 10 of 20 titles with a criteria of Available to public libraries AND Subject is Agriculture Sector


Big Spuds, Little Spuds

The impact of climate change and monoculture on one of the world's staple food crops.

Bullfrog Films | 1999 | 52 minutes

Driftless: Stories from Iowa

Once at the center of the U.S. economy, the family farm now drifts at its edges. In Iowa, old-time farmers try to hang on to their way of life, while their young push out to find their futures elsewhere. Driftless tells their stories.

MediaStorm | 2009 | 31 minutes

Farming the Sky

Winters in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, are long, and the growing season is short. A head of lettuce travels an average 2,000 miles to get there, often arriving shriveled and tasteless. Architect Nona Yehia knew there had to be a better way to get food to eat. Traditional industrial scale agriculture might never be replaced, but she was sure it could be improved. She designed a new kind of greenhouse: a building that would pack a perfectly controlled growing environment into a space built up vertically on a sliver of town land.

Bullfrog Films | 2022 | 8 minutes

Farmsteaders

Follows Nick and Celeste Nolan and their young family on a journey to resurrect Nick's grandfather's dairy farm as a locally sustainable family farm.

Bullfrog Films | 2020 | 52 minutes

Fixing Food 2, Ep. 2: Healing the Land

As farmer Rachael Slattery describes it, young farmers today are inheriting land that has been overused and abused for generations – and she thinks regenerative agriculture is the key to fostering a sustainable future.

Bullfrog Films | 2024 | 9 minutes

From Seed to Seed

Follows a group of Canadian organic farmers over the course of one growing season as they adopt agroecological growing techniques to create sustainable and resilient food and farming systems.

Bullfrog Films | 2019 | 87 minutes

Gaza's Strawberry Fields

The economy of Gaza is not ruled by law, but by the Occupation.

 

First Hand Films | 2006 | 60 minutes

The Gift

Through interviews, dance and song, The Gift explores the intimated connection between corn and the indigenous peoples of the Americas.

National Film Board of Canada | 1999 | 49 minutes

Helping Ourselves!

In India, two community projects help people move out of poverty and gain control of their lives.

Bullfrog Films | 2005 | 25 minutes

Insecticides: A License to Kill

The insect apocalypse is here and pesticides are to blame.

Icarus Films | 2022 | 58 minutes