He tried to ruin the country by pouring toilet water on crops.

How much livestock do you need to produce this?

Farmers cultivate the soil.

I want to tell you a story first, before I begin.

In Somalia, the central government collapsed and clan warfare broke out.

And it's very flat. It's very swampy.

We need to face 'the other inconvenient truth.'

More than 40 of Earth's land has been cleared for agriculture.

Some of the things that emerge from it are local food projects,

Construction spread to the hills and farmland surrounding the city.

This technology will solve the problems of contaminated sludge, oil or radioactive materials in the soil.

Could you tell me where the plat books for the northwest valley are?

The basin of a river usually has rich farmland.

It's not something that we should be surprised by.

They're watering crops with a sports drink?

Farmers made a lucky strike on estates.

Well, as an environmentalist, we would rather that didn't happen.

Ways of controlling, preventing soil erosion.

Tonight's episode Along an isolated stretch of farmland in Northern Nebraska, a construction company builds the sleek asphalt ribbon of a new superhighway.

It's a SaintJulien, Château Léoville Las Cases, '53.

Rice is the chief crop in this area.

Fertile soil is indispensable for agriculture.

We had a savanna, a marsh, a desert.

You're just gonna have to figure it out like we did with the crops.

This map shows the presence of agriculture on planet Earth.

I don't have the same value as we have on selling collectively.

Another threat is a lack of water.

And you see how attentive these kids are to these seeds.

The geologists explored for oil on our farm.

In olden times, serfs ran away from their landlords and settled on the Don.

And it could transform swaths of desert land into fields of emerald green.

It is now many years that men have resorted to the forest for fuel and the materials of the arts the New Englander and the New Hollander, the Parisian and the Celt, the farmer and Robin Hood, Goody Blake and

The woodland was parceled into farms.

But looking at some old footage from our farm, the damage it causes is now pretty obvious.

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So this is a story of a place that I now call home.

So what we have to do, I think, is invent a new kind of agriculture that blends the best ideas of commercial agriculture and the green revolution with the best ideas of organic farming and local food and the best ideas of environmental conservation, not to have them fighting each other but to have them collaborating together to form a new kind of agriculture, something I call terraculture, or farming for a whole planet.

And they essentially live in smaller versions of the Palace of Versailles.

As you can see from these pictures, the spacing between can be used for multiple purposes including agricultural land, range land or open space.

Agriculture.

Now, the next impact is on farm families, their neighbors, and rural communities.

Well, isn't blank the answer? organic food,

And it's all built on the foundation of healthy, living soil.

This is a photograph of the Bristol and District

About 7 calories of fossil fuel energy are used to produce 1 calorie of food.