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World Service,23 Jul 1999,28 mins

Working the Land

My Century

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Agricultural life in the 20th Century and how the way we farm has changed. Ray Waters saw changes in agriculture from using horses to using combine harvesters; Victor Danilov saw the effects of collectivisation of Soviet agriculture; Nina Toni campaigned for fair distribution of land in Brazil; fruit grower John Jacobson on switching to organic farming ; and Mohammed Ismail Mia on his rice fields in Bangladesh.

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