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Farmers on the Frontline

How can farmers produce enough food, in an environmentally friendly way, to feed a growing global population? Amanda Little meets innovating farmers on three different continents.

Hunger and food shortages are profound problems facing the world today. How can farmers produce enough food, in an environmentally friendly way, to feed a growing global population in the face of climate change and supply-side disruption caused by war and the after-effects of Covid-19? In this Follow the Food special programme, Amanda Little meets farmers on three different continents striving and innovating to overcome these challenges.

23 minutes

Last on

Wed 14 Dec 202201:30GMT
BBC News Latin America & North America only

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  • Sat 12 Nov 202201:30GMT
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  • Sat 12 Nov 202215:30GMT
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  • Sun 13 Nov 202209:30GMT
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  • Sun 13 Nov 202220:30GMT
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  • Wed 16 Nov 202201:30GMT
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  • Wed 23 Nov 202201:30GMT
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  • Sat 10 Dec 202201:30GMT
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  • Sat 10 Dec 202215:30GMT
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  • Sun 11 Dec 202209:30GMT
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  • Sun 11 Dec 202220:30GMT
    BBC News except UK & UK HD
  • Wed 14 Dec 202201:30GMT
    BBC News Latin America & North America only