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The Food Programme: Ancient Intensive Farming 

Ancient Intensive Farming 

18/02/2007

Ancient Intensive Farming

BBC Radio 4 - The Food Programme, Ancient Intensive Farming

Sheila Dillon asks what ancient forms of intensive farming can teach us today.

Sheila Dillon asks what ancient forms of intensive farming can teach us today, and hears about a unique form of rotational aquaculture practised in the Dombes region of France.

Should we change how we mass-produce our food? Sheila Dillon explores options, like the validity of traditional methods.

Reporter Jean Snedegar talks to farmer Joel Salatin. 

Sheila Dillon speaks to Professor Wayne Teel, who teaches in the department of Integrated Science and Technology at James Madison University in Virginia.

Reporter Ray Kershaw talks to historian and fish farmer, Philipe Machenay, about the production of 8000 tonnes of fish in the 1200 lakes of the Dombes region in eastern France near Lyon, a system which is at least 800 years old. They are joined by some fishermen for the annual harvest. 

Sheila talks to Professor Bob Orskov of the McCauley Institute near Aberdeen who has been working with rice farmers in Vietnam.

Sheila is joined in the studio by Peter Bradnock, Chief Executive of the British Poultry Council and science writer, Colin Tudge.

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