msvgo
Nitrogen Nutrition in Plants
It explains the need for intake of nitrogen in plants. It also describes methods of nitrogen nutrition such as biological nitrogen fixation, fertilisers and manures.
FuseSchool
What Are Fertilisers?
What are fertilisers? Fertilisers help to plants grow, thus increasing crop yields. They contain helpful nutrients and minerals like nitrogen, potassium and phosphorous which aid in plant growth. Excess fertilisers washing off fields...
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.
msvgo
Crop Protection: Pests
It explains the need for protecting crop plants from pests and describes common practices used for crop pest management.
NASA
Crop Irrigation Is Closely Tied to Groundwater Depletion Around the World
The irrigation that grows crops, especially in dry countries, can also be responsible for taxing aquifers beyond their capacities. Groundwater depletion is embedded in the international food trade, with countries exporting crops grown...
TMW Media
Sustainable Farming: Innovative water conserving farmers
How do farmers conserve water? Are machines used to harvest fruit? How can we become a part of sustainable agriculture? Sustainable Farming, Part 2
Curated Video
Millet Production and World Hunger
This video discusses the importance of millet in addressing hunger and malnutrition globally. It highlights India and China as the top producers of millet, but also mentions the decline in millet production and consumption in India. The...
Makematic
Global Icons: Wangari Maathai
A short animation about the life of Global Icon Wangari Maathai and how she represents Global Mindedness
Curated Video
Mediterranean World: Inspiring America's Democracy
Discover how 3,000 years ago the Ancient Mediterranean World improved the life of the people through trade and the sharing of customs, knowledge and ideas.
US Department of Agriculture
Nature’s New “Soil Cleaner”
Scientists with the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service in central California are using cactus and other plants to remove toxins from soil and to create biofuels. USDA’s Patrick O’Leary has more.
Science360
Leaf Sensor
It started as a project for long term space survival, when NASA estimated that crews headed to or living on Mars would spend 80% of their waking hours farming! But, with support from the National Science Foundation, research into a leaf...
Mazz Media
Drought
This live-action video program is about drought. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the term through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and colorful, animated graphics and...
msvgo
Agricultural Practices - An Overview
It explains agricultural practices and talks about various types of crops.
Science360
Developing Hardier, Weather-Resistant Crops
At first, the back room of plant physiologist Edgar Spalding's lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison might be mistaken for an alien space ship set straight out of a Hollywood movie. It's a room bathed in low-red light with camera...
Mediacorp
Indonesia's Palm Oil Industry: The Blame Game and Environmental Consequences
This video explores the issue of forest fires caused by the palm oil industry in Indonesia. It examines the different perspectives on who is responsible for these fires, with the focus on small-scale farmers who resort to slash and burn...
FuseSchool
Food Security
Even though enough food is grown to feed all 7 billion people on Earth, around 795 million (so 1 in 9 people) do not eat enough food to maintain good health. These people don’t just live in less developed countries, being undernourished...
FuseSchool
GM Crops
GM stands for genetically modified. So, GM crops are plants grown for food whose genes have been altered using genetic engineering. In some cases, the genes of other organisms have been inserted into the genome of the crop plant to...
TMW Media
Sustainable Farming: Common ways farmers protect their crops
How do farmers protect crops? How can farmers reduce the need for fertilizer and pesticides? What kinds of threats do citrus farmers face? Sustainable Farming, Part 1
PBS
Can Farms and Forests Coexist?
Deforestation is a big problem for the climate. This kind of land use releases more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than any single country, besides the United States or China. And most of the deforestation in the world today happens...
Ancient Lights Media
Genetic Engineering: Positives & Negatives of Transgenic Plants
This clip looks at some of the beneficial and harmful aspects of transgenic plants.
Mazz Media
Agrarian Society
This live-action video program is about the word Agrarian Society. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of Agrarian Society through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and...
FuseSchool
BIOLOGY - Environment - What is biodiversity
Biodiversity is a key concept in ecology and has importance on both local and global scales. Biodiversity is the degree of variation of life, or put more simply, the number of different individuals and lifeforms in an area. Scientists...
Curated Video
The Role of the Flower
Around a third of our global crops depend on animal pollination for their production. Almost all of these crops rely on flowers to attract animals to themselves and so, if flowers vanished, we would lose 35% of all our crops. That’s...