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Home | Geography | Resources and Energy

Food security

1: Brazil | Jimmy’s Global Harvest

1: Brazil | Jimmy’s Global Harvest

Food security | BBC HD | 2010 | 59'09''

In Brazil, Jimmy learns how to produce food on poisoned land, and sees biofuel use in action.

2: Australia | Jimmy’s Global Harvest

2: Australia | Jimmy’s Global Harvest

Food security | BBC HD | 2010 | 59'08''

In Australia, Jimmy finds out whether farmers can overcome the global problem of soil salinity.

3: USA | Jimmy’s Global Harvest

3: USA | Jimmy’s Global Harvest

Food security | BBC HD | 2010 | 57'54''

In the USA, farmers have put their faith in new technology to increase food output.

4: Kenya | Jimmy’s Global Harvest

4: Kenya | Jimmy’s Global Harvest

Food security | BBC HD | 2010 | 58'44''

Jimmy visits Kenya and meets farmers who use ingenious new ways to combat pests.

4: Ready Meals | What They Really Mean for You

4: Ready Meals | What They Really Mean for You

Food security | BBC One | 2023 | 57'59''

A look behind the scenes of the food industry to discover how ready meals are produced, what new technology could mean for wha...

Alcohol and carbon footprint | Horizon

Alcohol and carbon footprint | Horizon

Food security | BBC Two | 2021 | 2'16''

Different types of alcohol gets scrutinised for its carbon footprint.

Amazon deforestation | Meat: A Threat to Our Planet?

Amazon deforestation | Meat: A Threat to Our Planet?

Biodiversity and Human Impact | BBC One | 2019 | 4'21''

Liz Bonnin witnesses the devastation of the Amazon rainforest from the sky.

Animal feed production | Meat: A Threat to Our Planet?

Animal feed production | Meat: A Threat to Our Planet?

Biodiversity and Human Impact | BBC One | 2019 | 4'50''

Liz Bonnin explores the impact that animal feed production is having on insect biodiversity.

Bee and Honey Farm | Show Me What You’re Made Of: UK

Bee and Honey Farm | Show Me What You’re Made Of: UK

Food security | CBBC | 2018 | 28'09''

In part three of their Britain trip, our five kids head with Stacey Dooley to Aberystwyth in Wales to one of the U...

Britain’s love-affair with the avocado | What Britain Buys and Sells in a Day

Britain’s love-affair with the avocado | What Britain Buys and Sells in a Day

Business and Management | BBC Two | 2019 | 6'16''

Ade travels to Peru to find out about the UK's love-affair with the Avocado.

Britain’s picky fruit and vegetables preferences | What Britain Buys and Sells in a Day

Britain’s picky fruit and vegetables preferences | What Britain Buys and Sells in a Day

Business and Management | BBC Two | 2019 | 2'08''

Ed finds out why Britons are so picky with their food and how this affects wher...

Cattle | Show Me What You’re Made Of

Cattle | Show Me What You’re Made Of

Food security | CBBC | 2013 | 28'12''

Stacey Dooley takes the kids to the heart of the Brazilian beef industry, where they see for themselves how meat gets to our plates.

Cattle feedyard | Meat: A Threat to Our Planet?

Cattle feedyard | Meat: A Threat to Our Planet?

Biodiversity and Human Impact | BBC One | 2019 | 3'42''

Liz Bonnin visits a cattle feedyard, a mass factory farm, that contains about 50,000 cows.

Chocolate | Show Me What You’re Made Of

Chocolate | Show Me What You’re Made Of

Food security | CBBC | 2012 | 28'13''

It's on to the final workplace and every kid's dream come true - a chocolate factory.

Crop to Shop: Jimmy’s Supermarket Secrets

Crop to Shop: Jimmy’s Supermarket Secrets

Food security | BBC One | 2010 | 58'57''

Jimmy Doherty explores the global logistics that bring fresh food from around the world to a shop near you, and uncovers the ...

Desserts and carbon footprint | Horizon

Desserts and carbon footprint | Horizon

Food security | BBC Two | 2021 | 3'55''

Desserts are weighted against each other for their crimes against carbon emissions.

Eggs | Show Me What You’re Made Of: UK

Eggs | Show Me What You’re Made Of: UK

Food security | CBBC | 2017 | 28'11''

Five kids work alongside the people in the UK who make and do the things they rely on. They are on their final stop, at one of t...

Episode 1 | Kelvin’s Big Farming Adventure

Episode 1 | Kelvin’s Big Farming Adventure

Food security | BBC One | 2022 | 28'56''

Strictly star Kelvin Fletcher has bought a 120-acre farm in the Peaks. With no experience, he sees his stress levels quickly...

Episode 1 | Tomorrow’s Food

Episode 1 | Tomorrow’s Food

Food security | BBC One | 2015 | 58'00''

Chris Bavin visits the world's leading robotic farm, and Shini Somara is immersed in the restaurant of the future in Shanghai.

Episode 2 | Future of Food

Episode 2 | Future of Food

Food security | BBC Two | 2009 | 59'08''

George Alagiah travels the world to reveal a growing global food crisis. He discovers how a changing diet in the developing world is putting press...

Episode 2 | Hugh’s War on Waste

Episode 2 | Hugh’s War on Waste

Citizenship | BBC One | 2015 | 58'13''

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall continues his mission to find out why the UK wastes so much food. He joins an illicit midnight raid to see ...

Episode 2 | Kelvin’s Big Farming Adventure

Episode 2 | Kelvin’s Big Farming Adventure

Food security | BBC One | 2022 | 29'00''

Rookie farmers Kelvin Fletcher and his wife Liz buy their first livestock - a flock of rare breed sheep. They set out to she...

Episode 2 | Tomorrow’s Food

Episode 2 | Tomorrow’s Food

Food security | BBC One | 2015 | 57'59''

Greengrocer Chris Bavin finds out if the British public will ever accept insects as an appetising snack.

Episode 3 | Future of Food

Episode 3 | Future of Food

Food security | BBC Two | 2009 | 59'07''

George Alagiah travels the world in search of solutions to the global food crisis. Here, George investigates the 'land-grabs' trend, where rich co...

Episode 3 | Kelvin’s Big Farming Adventure

Episode 3 | Kelvin’s Big Farming Adventure

Food security | BBC One | 2022 | 29'06''

Pigs are next on the shopping list for Kelvin's growing farm, but while he's away pursuing his other passion of motor racing...

Episode 3 | Tomorrow’s Food

Episode 3 | Tomorrow’s Food

Food security | BBC One | 2015 | 58'06''

Dr Shini Somara tastes chocolate that's sweeter and healthier because it's been treated with mushrooms.

Episode 3: The Batttle Continues | Hugh’s War on Waste

Episode 3: The Batttle Continues | Hugh’s War on Waste

Citizenship | BBC One | 2016 | 58'57''

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall tries to change Britain's wasteful ways. He takes on Amazon, for all their packaging...

Episode 4 | Kelvin’s Big Farming Adventure

Episode 4 | Kelvin’s Big Farming Adventure

Food security | BBC One | 2022 | 29'05''

The Fletchers enter three sheep into the Ashbourne Show. Training is a disaster, with Daniel the ram lamb preferring to play...

Episode 5 | Kelvin’s Big Farming Adventure

Episode 5 | Kelvin’s Big Farming Adventure

Food security | BBC One | 2022 | 28'59''

The Fletchers face the realities of farming as Kelvin takes one of his lambs to the slaughter. An eye-opening visit to a loc...

Episode 6 | Kelvin’s Big Farming Adventure

Episode 6 | Kelvin’s Big Farming Adventure

Food security | BBC One | 2022 | 29'03''

Since moving to the farm, the Fletchers' social life has suffered. To get to know the neighbours better, Kelvin and Liz deci...

Exporting British apples | What Britain Buys and Sells in a Day

Exporting British apples | What Britain Buys and Sells in a Day

Business and Management | BBC Two | 2019 | 3'23''

Cherry discusses the British apple trade with one the UK's apple farmers.

Exporting British potatoes | What Britain Buys and Sells in a Day

Exporting British potatoes | What Britain Buys and Sells in a Day

Business and Management | BBC Two | 2019 | 5'14''

Cherry meets one of Britain's biggest potato farmers and finds out what makes a perfect potato.

Exporting empty shipping crates | What Britain Buys and Sells in a Day

Exporting empty shipping crates | What Britain Buys and Sells in a Day

Business and Management | BBC Two | 2019 | 1'41''

As the UK generally imports more than it exports Ed wonders what happens to the empty crates.

Feast to Save the Planet | Horizon

Feast to Save the Planet | Horizon

Food security | BBC Two | 2021 | 58'55''

Gregg Wallace and mathematician Hannah Fry invite five special guests to a unique dinner party where they are scored on the environmental ...

Food choices and carbon footprint | Horizon

Food choices and carbon footprint | Horizon

Food security | BBC Two | 2021 | 3'15''

Hannah and Mike detail how environmental scientists calculate a food produces carbon footprint.

Food waste | Horizon

Food waste | Horizon

Food security | BBC Two | 2021 | 2'33''

Some startling facts are revealed about how much we waste food as a nation.

Fruit and Veg | What Britain Buys and Sells in a Day

Fruit and Veg | What Britain Buys and Sells in a Day

Balance of payments | BBC Two | 2019 | 59'03''

Ed Balls, Ade Adepitan and Cherry Healey delve into the hectic world of Britain's imports and exports. Ed is at London G...

Future of Food

Future of Food

Food security | BBC Two | 2009 | 58'58''

George Alagiah travels the world to reveal a growing global food crisis. He investigates population growth, climate change, water shortages and what is wrong ...

Hugh’s War on Waste

Hugh’s War on Waste

Citizenship | BBC One | 2015 | 58'04''

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall wants to find out why the UK wastes so much food. He challenges supermarkets to drastically reduce the amount of food t...

Importing Dutch tomatoes | What Britain Buys and Sells in a Day

Importing Dutch tomatoes | What Britain Buys and Sells in a Day

Business and Management | BBC Two | 2019 | 4'47''

Ade travels to the Netherlands to see where we import most of our tomatoes from.

Importing food from abroad | What Britain Buys and Sells in a Day

Importing food from abroad | What Britain Buys and Sells in a Day

Business and Management | BBC Two | 2019 | 4'10''

Cherry find out how all our fresh food is bought and traded with the rest of the world.

Main courses and carbon footprint | Horizon

Main courses and carbon footprint | Horizon

Food security | BBC Two | 2021 | 3'00''

Main courses are matched up to see which has the worst carbon footprint.

Meat, methane and carbon emissions | Horizon

Meat, methane and carbon emissions | Horizon

Food security | BBC Two | 2021 | 5'21''

Different meats are studied for their different carbon footprints and a scientist has an intriguing development on methane produ...

Meat: A Threat to Our Planet?

Meat: A Threat to Our Planet?

Biodiversity and Human Impact | BBC One | 2019 | 57'43''

From colossal farms in America to the destruction of the Amazon, Liz Bonnin investigates how our hunger for meat is killing our planet.

Pig farming and water pollution | Meat: A Threat to Our Planet?

Pig farming and water pollution | Meat: A Threat to Our Planet?

Biodiversity and Human Impact | BBC One | 2019 | 4'30''

Liz Bonnin investigates the polluting impact of pig manure from factory farms.

Plant-based foods and fertilisers | Horizon

Plant-based foods and fertilisers | Horizon

Food security | BBC Two | 2021 | 4'00''

Find out why soy gets a bad reputation and also a new algae-based fertiliser could be around the corner that is less impactful on...

Prawns | Show Me What You’re Made Of

Prawns | Show Me What You’re Made Of

Food security | CBBC | 2013 | 27'44''

The kids move to the north east coast of Brazil to work in a prawn farm and processing factory.

S1E4: The Plants We Eat | Maddie, the Plants and You

S1E4: The Plants We Eat | Maddie, the Plants and You

Food security | CBeebies | 2021 | 19'16''

Join Maddie as she finds out how many plants give us food we can eat and how we can help to look after them and our planet.

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