After a processing potato shortage this summer, South Australia's potato harvest is under way but will it be enough, one of the Eyre Peninsula's best-known bee keepers is hanging up his bee suit and life on the land is hard work, but it can be even harder for LGBTQIA+ people working in agriculture, two farmers tell their story.
Mar 2022
Pacific Islanders working for their futures
Climate change and disasters continue to threaten peoples’ livelihoods and wellbeing in the Pacific Islands. Jon Naupa, a Kava farmer in Vanuatu, tells the BBC’s Frey Lindsay how difficult it’s getting to break even at the moment. In response to the challenges, young Pacific Isla ... Show More
17m 28s
Jan 2024
Doing the bees’ work with Thai Sade of BloomX
Thai Sade is the co-founder and CEO of BloomX, a company that has developed crop-pollinating technology to replicate natural pollinators like bees and other insects. So much of what we eat depends on bees, which have been used for centuries to pollinate crops. But today, the worl ... Show More
32m 9s
Mar 2024
European farming’s existential crisis?
There's been a wave of farmers' protests across Europe in recent weeks. France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain and Eastern European countries have all seen farmers airing their grievances by driving their tractors into towns and cities and blocking roads. There have also been si ... Show More
18m 10s