Rural Environments

Adapting to solar farming | Weather World

Sarah Keith-Lucas visits a farm in Kent that has adapted its activities in response to the challenges of climate change.

Climate change and arable farming | Weather World

Sarah Keith-Lucas visits a farm in Kent and finds out how arable farming is affected by climate change.

Gardening vs Farming | Natural World

Rebecca Hosking explores the benefits of gardening as opposed to farming.

Hedges and woodland | Natural World

Rebecca Hosking explores the potential of hedges as a form of permaculture.

Permaculture | Natural World

Rebecca Hosking investigates permaculture in a small farm in the mountains of Snowdonia.

Synthetic fertilizer | Natural World

Many farms depend on synthetic fertilisers to continue growing plants on soil that has been overworked.

Livestock farming | Natural World

Rebecca Hosking explains why livestock farming is fuel intensive and visits a farm that is trying to combat this.

Fossil fuels behind every day food | Natural World

Rebecca Hosking goes through the fossil fuels involved in creating a shop bought sandwich.

Farming and fuel shortages | Natural World

Rebecca Hosking discusses how fuel shortages will impact farming.

The River Nile and early agriculture | How Earth Made Us

Iain Stewart explains the important role that the Nile played in early Egyptian agriculture.

Sustainable farm policies | Y Byd ar Bedwar

We discuss the Welsh Government's proposed sustainable policies for Welsh farmers.

Vietnamese coffee | This World

Simon Reeve talks to an coffee consultant about the reasons why Vietnam does not benefit from the profits of the coffee industry.

Nestle | This World

Simon Reeve visits a Nestle factory, in Ho Chi Minh City.

Protecting wildlife | This World

Vietnam has lost nearly 40,000 square miles of forest since 1972. Simon Reeve visits Yok Don National Park, where wildlife is being protecte...

Over-farming in the coffee industry | This World

Unregulated farming is threatening the future of the coffee industry in Vietnam.

Lasting impacts of the Vietnam War | This World

Simon Reeve investigates the continued impacts of the Vietnam War on rural communities in Vietnam.

The coffee industry in Vietnam | This World

Simon Reeve visits a coffee farm in Vietnam.

Riverford organic food | Rick Stein's Food Stories

Rick meets Riverford's Guy Singh-Watson, who blazed a trail for organic food before many people even knew what it was.

Britanny | The Geography Programme

Intensive agriculture has brought Brittany prosperity but also polluted the water supply with nitrates and pesticides.

Shaking up Our Sheep Farm | We Are England

James is a sheep farmer with a big vision: he's taken over the family farm and is making exciting changes using modern breeding an...

7: Modern Times | British Isles: A Natural History

Close encounters with rare red squirrels and bats hiding in the silos at Greenham Common - Alan Titchmarsh reveals a hundr...

5: Taming the Wild | British Isles: A Natural History

Armed with stone axes and grim determination, a few thousand people turned our islands from forest to farm. Alan Titchm...

5: Untamed Britain | Britain from Above

Andrew Marr microlights and paraglides to get a bird's eye view of our untamed landscape.

4: The Land | Britain from Above

Comparing exhaustive footage of East Anglia in the 1940s with the countryside of today.

3: Man Made Britain | Britain from Above

Andrew Marr discovers how some of Britain's greenest landscapes were shaped by humans.

Episode 1 | All Roads Lead Home

Stephen Mangan, Sue Perkins and Alison Steadman travel the UK and Ireland. Sue Perkins takes charge in Cornwall and leads Stephen Mangan and ...

1: Cornwall and Devon | The Great British Countryside

Hugh Dennis and Julia Bradbury explore the most stunning parts of Cornwall and Devon to learn how Britain's past lives ...

Episode 2 | The New Builds Are Coming: Battle in the Countryside

Film-maker Richard Macer explores the decision by the government to free up the green belt to developers. Ma...

The New Builds Are Coming: Battle in the Countryside

Film-maker Richard Macer explores the controversial decision by the government to free up the green belt to developers.

Episode 2 | Cornwall with Simon Reeve

Simon Reeve investigates the environmental challenges facing Cornwall and the rest of the country, and on the way encounters some of it...

Cornwall with Simon Reeve

Simon Reeve travels through glorious Cornwall during a summer like no other, as the county emerges from lockdown and businesses are in a race to su...

Episode 3 | The Lakes with Simon Reeve

Simon Reeve comes to the end of his travels through the Lake District and Cumbria, exploring the rugged coast of Cumbria and learning ...

Building boom | This World

An exploration of China's out of control building boom.

Rapid Chinese development | This World

The vast scale of Chinese development plans, and the role of state-owned enterprise.

Wuhan urban renewal | This World

Development plans for Wuhan in Hubei Province, China.

Economy and employment in the new city | This World

How the economy is developing in the new city and supplying new job opportunities.

Impact of the new city | This World

How the new city has impacted different families from White Horse village.

Migrant workers | This World

150 million people from rural communities in China leave their families to work in cities.

Migration to cities | This World

Many young people in rural villages in China move to the cities to earn money and support their families.

Flood management | Landward

Following the wettest winter on record, Arlene is in Aberdeenshire to meet the scientists taking a lesson from nature when it comes to tackling f...