Curated Video
Intensive Food Production: Pros and Cons of Monoculture Farming and Intensive Livestock Production
This video is a lecture presentation about intensive food production and improving yields. The presenter discusses two farming practices aimed at increasing efficiency and higher yields - monocultures and intensive livestock production....
Curated Video
Evaluating Food Production Techniques: Farming Practices, Fishing, and Biotechnology
This video discusses and evaluates different food production techniques, including farming practices, sustainable fishing, fish farms, and biotechnologies. The video examines the efficiency and potential ethical and environmental...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Geoffrey Heal: Managing the Global Commons 2/5
Geoffrey Heal, Donald C. Waite III Professor of Social Enterprise, Columbia Business School, New York at the panel entitled "Managing the Global Commons: Growth, Inequality, and New Thinking for Sustainable Economics" at the Institute...
Food Farmer Earth
Revolutionizing the Food System: A Path Towards Sustainability
This video discusses the critical need for a fundamental overhaul of our industrial food system, advocating for a shift towards more local, sustainable, and humane practices. It highlights the importance of reconnecting with the source...
The Wall Street Journal
The Next Era of an American Brand
Since taking the helm as CEO of Land O' Lakes, Beth Ford has set out to modernize the storied brand with an expanded use of data and an increased commitment to sustainability. She discusses her strategies for growth and plans for the...
Curated Video
Wheat: From Staple Crop to Sustainable Solutions
This video explores the significance of wheat as one of the world's most important crops. It highlights its historical impact, current uses, and potential for future sustainability. From being a staple food source to its role in biofuel...
Mediacorp
The Future of Food: Innovations, Health, and Sustainability
Lab food is more sustainable for the environment, but is it healthy? The short answer for cricket protein is yes, but we cannot yet know the longterm impact on our health. A food scientist shares his thoughts on the matter. Lab Food part...
NASA
NASA | Science for a Hungry World: Part 2
Episode two reveals why a space-based perspective is crucial to understanding how the food supply is distributed around the world. Satellites can reveal how many fields have been planted and how a crop is growing, providing a way to...
NASA
Snacktime with NASA: Chips and Dip
Snacktime with NASA digs into the science behind what’s on your plate from a tasty cheese board, to seafood, to fresh produce, to chips and dip. Food can bring us a sense of home, and it connects people all around the world. With...
NASA
NASA | Ask a Climate Scientist: Climate Change and Humans
How does climate change affect humans? That's the question we asked Tom Wagner, Program Scientist for Cryospheric Research at NASA. In four different ways, he says, from rainfall patterns and sea levels rising to food production and...
Economics Explained
MIT Has Predicted that Society Will Collapse in 2040: The Limits To Growth
A report in the 1970's looks at how society will progress along certain factors. Which path is the most viable moving forward and which one is the most distrastrous? Either way, what does the year 2040 have to do with it? Helping you...
NASA
NASA | Ask a Climate Scientist: Food Production
Will climate change drastically reduce our food production, or will it change what we produce?
NASA
How remote sensing can help address food security around the world
When floods, droughts, and other natural disasters hit isolated and poor regions of the world, it can have devastating impacts on the local price of food. NASA Goddard research scientist Molly Brown is using satellite data to investigate...
Food Farmer Earth
Carlo Petrini The Earth Is Not An Infinite Resource
From the archives: part 2- Agriculture too, has natural built-in limitations. Slow Food founder, Carlo Petrini, warns that we have learned how to circumvent those limits and as a result are paying the price.
Globalive Media
Beyond Innovation: Episode 25
A robotic arm cooks hamburgers, a face scanner clinches sales and a connected car links to our social lives. Plus, Michael and Anthony speak with billionaire professor David Cheriton about automating computer networking systems.
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Globalive Media
Beyond Innovation: Episode 12
An algorithm designs the perfect website, an exoskeleton puts a spring in your step and a scanner sees inside your food. Plus, the entrepreneur who invented the mouse reveals his next big idea. Hosted by venture capitalist Anthony...
FuseSchool
The Haber Process - the Uses of Ammonia
Learn about the Haber Process and the uses of Ammonia within the overall reactions topic.
Economics Explained
The Economy of Communist China
China was once the wealthiest in the world and now it was struggling to feed itself, it was these kinds of conditions that gave rise to the political system that would go on to define china in the latter half of the twentieth century....
Religion for Breakfast
Göbekli Tepe: The World's Oldest Temple?
Göbekli Tepe is a massive monolithic complex in southeastern Turkey. Archaeologists have hypothesized that the site is the oldest temple known to humanity. But what do we know about it? And why do archaeologists think it is a religious...
Learning Mole
Plants as Food
A video created for, and aimed at primary school science students learning all about plants. This video will take students through the plants that are commonly used as food.
Science360
What will food production look like in the future?
Adam Wolf, founder and CEO of Arable Labs, describes the future of food production. Arable Labs, an NSF-funded small business, has developed a crop and weather sensor that delivers real-time, precision weather information straight to the...
Curated Video
Who will end hunger in areas hit by the coronavirus? | Inside Story
Oxfam has warned that millions of people could face starvation as Covid-19 takes its toll globally.
Curated Video
This igloo greenhouse could revolutionize food production in the North
A Ryerson University student has built an greenhouse on the Arctic Circle that allows people in the far North to grow fresh produce.
Curated Video
East Africa drought threatens millions with starvation: Aid group
The Horn of Africa and East Africa are experiencing the longest droughts in 40 years.