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Bamboo - The Miracle Grass - DVD ONF/NFB


Catalogue Number:  NFB528760
Producer:  National Film Board Of Canada
Producers:  Neill McKee
Directors:  Neill McKee
Producing Agencies:  Centre de recherches pour le développement international (Canada) (Ottawa), International Development Research Centre (Canada) (Ottawa)
Subject:  Agriculture, Documentary, Environmental Studies, Geography, Global Studies, Science
Language:  English
Country Of Origin:  Canada
Copyright Year:  1987
Running Time:  21:00


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Bamboo is a highly renewable and versatile resource for the people in developing countries. As the world's fastest growing plant, it seems to be abundant, but it is being harvested with little attention to conservation. This film documents a network of International Development Research Centre projects that are investigating ways to increase the production and quality of bamboo in Asia, and to come up with even more uses for this valuable plant. The film brings to the screen the faces of the people who depend on bamboo in their daily lives. It travels from an endless bamboo forest to a laboratory where scientists are measuring bamboo's physical properties.


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