13 videos tagged agribusiness
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Eric Schlosser
What’s wrong with industrial agriculture?
Eric Schlosser highlights the damage caused by decades of intensive food production. Schlosser believes that industrialized agriculture carries serious costs in both animal and…
Recorded: 28 October 2006
Paul Rice
Does Fair Trade work?
Paul Rice talks about how fair trade can help align the interests of corporations and small farmers without sacrificing profitability. As companies look to reduce costs in an increasingly…
Recorded: 27 March 2006
John Cavanagh
Are corporations too powerful?
John Cavanagh gives examples of ways in which global corporations have set the world’s financial institutions – the IMF, World Bank and WTO (formerly GATT). Oil companies…
Recorded: 13 April 2005
Jerry Mander
What is the impact of agribusiness on the world?
Jerry Mander describes the hugely destructive effects of agribusiness on local economies in developing countries. Agribusiness creates profit maximization by amassing large land…
Recorded: 24 January 2005
Lester Brown
What is the future for World food supplies? (Part One)
In this two-part series Lester Brown looks at two environmental trends, aquifer depletion and rising temperatures. He focuses primarily on the long-term implications these have…
Recorded: 1 December 2004
HRH Prince of Wales
What is the future of food? (part 1)
The Prince of Wales gave this closing speech at the Terra Madre conference in Turin, Italy. The conference, held in October 2004, brought together 5,000 small scale food producers…
Recorded: 23 October 2004
Vandana Shiva
Why does biodiversity loss matter?
Dr. Shiva talks about the damaging ecological effects of agricultural monoculture – the large-scale production of single crops. She goes on to warn that the loss of biodiversity…
Recorded: 12 September 2004
Michael Meacher
What are the risks with Genetic Modification?
Interviewed on the very day biotech giant Bayer withdrew genetically modified Maize from the UK market, former Environment Minister Michael Meacher MP airs his views on genetic…
Recorded: 31 March 2004
Patrick Holden
What is wrong with intensive farming?
As Director of the U.K.’s largest organic certifier, Patrick Holden talks about the agricultural crisis brought about by fifty years of intensive farming. He describes how…
Recorded: 11 March 2004
Helena Norberg-Hodge
What does economic globalization entail?
Helena Norberg-Hodge talks about globalization. She explains how governments across the political spectrum pander to private sector demands, often at the expense of smaller businesses.…
Recorded: 1 September 2002
Helena Norberg-Hodge
What are the benefits of supporting local food? (Part One)
In the first part of this two-part series, Helena Norberg-Hodge talks about the benefits that supporting the local food economy can bring to both consumers and producers. By shortening…
Recorded: 1 September 2002
Helena Norberg-Hodge
What are the benefits of supporting local food? (Part Two)
In the second part of this two-part series, Helena Norberg-Hodge explains why supporting the local food economy needn’t mean we stop buying coffee, tropical fruits and other…
Recorded: 1 September 2002
Helena Norberg-Hodge
What are the roots of fundamentalism?
Helena Norberg-Hodge looks at the root causes of fundamentalist terrorism and ethnic violence. She sees the problem as being largely one of economics. Greater competition is forcing…
Recorded: 1 September 2002
