Food for Thought Earth Report

Food for Thought
Earth Report

Production Company: TVE
Producer: Marc de Beaufort

Year: 1996

Region: UK

Duration: 26’

Language: English

Food for Thought looks at some of the key issues the world’s governments considered in Rome at the 1996 World Food Summit; land reform in Nepal, revival of traditional farming in Zimbabwe: monsoon harvesting in India. The six featured stories can be shown as separate items, or together as a single programme in ‘chapters’.
TVE’s new weekly environmental series, Earth Report, was launched in March 1996 on BBC World television’s satellite service. Introduced by Sir David Altenborough – whose award-winning natural history series Life on Earth, Trials of Life and Life in the Freezer are among the top-selling, most popular programmes in the BBC’s programme repertoire-Earth Report provides a regular update on the state of the planet.