Video Harvesting the future

TLF ID M017138

This is a video about a project in Cambodia that aims to improve the rice farming industry by providing farmers with tarpaulins and rice grain storage bins. The video includes information and images about the importance of rice farming for this region; traditional rice cultivation methods including growing, drying, threshing and storing of rice grain; and the issues surrounding rice farming in this region.





Educational details

Educational value
  • This is a useful resource for the Biomes and food security unit in the year 9 geography curriculum. It is relevant for the content description referring to the capacity of the world's environments to sustainably feed the projected future population. The information the video provides about how the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations project has made rice farming more sustainable in Cambodia by protecting the quality of the rice grain to ensure a higher price at sale and a better quality rice grain for replanting is relevant here.
Year level

9

Other details

Contributors
  • Contributor
  • Name: Education Services Australia
  • Organization: Education Services Australia
  • Description: Data manager
  • Address: VIC, AUSTRALIA
  • URL: http://www.esa.edu.au/
  • Copyright Holder
  • Name: Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN
  • Organization: Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN
  • URL: http://www.fao.org/home/en/
  • Publisher
  • Name: Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN
  • Organization: Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN
  • Description: Publisher
  • URL: http://www.fao.org/home/en/
  • Resource metadata contributed by
  • Name: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Organisation: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Address: AUSTRALIA
  • URL: www.esa.edu.au
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Learning Resource Type
  • Video
Rights
  • © FAO, 2014. This material may be used in accordance with the Standard YouTube License at http://www.youtube.com/t/terms.